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US
/bɪˈɡɪn/
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[ UK /bɪɡˈɪn/ ]
[ UK /bɪɡˈɪn/ ]
VERB
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take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
We began working at dawn
Let's get down to work now
The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia
He began early in the day
Get working as soon as the sun rises!
Who will start? -
have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
The second movement begins after the Allegro
The DMZ begins right over the hill
Prices for these homes start at $250,000 -
achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative
You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war
This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation -
have a beginning, of a temporal event
The company's Asia tour begins next month
WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland -
begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language
We started French in fourth grade
She began Russian at an early age -
have a beginning characterized in some specified way
The novel begins with a murder
My property begins with the three maple trees
The semester begins with a convocation ceremony
Her day begins with a workout -
begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
We started physics in 10th grade
She started the soup while it was still hot
begin a cigar -
set in motion, cause to start
The Iraqis began hostilities
The U.S. started a war in the Middle East
begin a new chapter in your life -
be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series
The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester
A terrible murder begins the novel
The number `one' begins the sequence -
begin to speak or say
`Now listen, friends', he began
How To Use begin In A Sentence
- Someone who really wanted to stop unsanctioned immigration would begin here, by busting the small contractors who employ these workers on a contingent basis.
- I could be wrong but as I recall in Batman Begins Batman 'growled' his lines just a few times but to very strong effect. All of The Dark Knight's Broken Records - Box Office Dominance! « FirstShowing.net
- Begin by tightening your buttocks and lifting your hips off the floor.
- The experience was a little like being seated next to a cheerful, open-faced fellow on a long airplane flight who begins talking to you - and then never, ever, ever stops, not even when he has his Salisbury steak dinner in his mouth.
- Striking that balance between old and new will always be difficult, but after a few numbers here, memories of their old bandmaster begin to fade.
- Jobs 'mention that developers can begin submitting programs to the Mac App Store by next month made it clear that this, like the iPhone's App Store, will be a curated environment, subject to Apple's sole control. Apple updates: iLife '11, FaceTime on the Mac, Mac OS X Lion, Mac App Store, new MacBook Air models
- At the beginning of the protest, Aristide partisans attacked demonstrators, hitting one with a rock and shooting another.
- He begins by accepting the very dubious identification of her with the ‘woman who was a sinner’ and who anointed the feet of Christ.
- Such actively passive self-surrender is thus the necessary beginning of the regeneration on which loving union depends. The Times Literary Supplement
- She says that when a caterpillar encases itself in its cocoon, tiny cells called imaginal cells begin to appear within the chrysalis. Love For No Reason
