beginning

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[ UK /bɪɡˈɪnɪŋ/ ]
[ US /bɪˈɡɪnɪŋ/ ]

NOUN

the time at which something is supposed to begin
they got an early start
she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her
the place where something begins, where it springs into being
communism's Russian root
Jupiter was the origin of the radiation
the Italian beginning of the Renaissance
Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River
the first part or section of something
`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story
the event consisting of the start of something
the beginning of the war
the act of starting something
he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations

ADJECTIVE

serving to begin
the beginning canto of the poem
the first verse

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IHSB: The way to describe the first pro season for the most oddly named man alive (Allen Lorenz Pollock = A.J. Pollock?) is solid but unspectacular, which is disappointing given that the organization expected him to rip through Mid-A South Bend given that Midwest League Competition wasn't foreign to Pollock, given that Notre Dame plays an exhibition game against the SilverHawks at the beginning of each season. AZ Snakepit
The blogosphere, meanwhile, is beginning to show signs of commercial acumen: "Lots of bloggers, over time, make a good living – perhaps a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year from advertising. Author Don Tapscott on the growing influence of public participation
Roderick Little, a University of Michigan biostatistician, will become associate director for statistical methodology and standards at the Census Bureau beginning in September. Robert Groves Names Roderick Little, U Of Mich. Statistician, To New Census Post
It wasn't just the obvious favouritism towards their own daughter that ticked him off either, that wasn't even the beginning of it.
First, the entire science of astronomy had depended on careful measurement from the very beginning.
She spoke of a new beginning for the nation.
At the beginning of the war, the Nationalist forces had eighty thousand men. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
In the end, though, Smith was beginning to realise the futility of trying to liberate a proletariat that seemed quite content to remain unliberated.
Yet at the end of this period, as at the beginning, the influence of lordship in society was pervasive.
There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests expressly for those in love, — in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, which is forever beginning anew, and which will last as long as there are hedges and scholars. Les Miserables

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