[
UK
/kəmˈɛns/
]
[ US /kəˈmɛns/ ]
[ US /kəˈmɛns/ ]
VERB
-
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? -
get off the ground
I start my day with a good breakfast
We embarked on an exciting enterprise
The afternoon session begins at 4 PM
We began the new semester
Who started this company?
The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack -
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
How To Use commence In A Sentence
- A few talented writers en dowed with originality and exceptional animation, a few brilliant efforts, isolated, without following, interrupted and recommenced, did not suffice to endow a nation with a solid and imposing basis of literary wealth. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
- 'If he _has not fulfilled_ his promise to write,' but 'If he _did not write_ as he undertook to do' ([Greek: _egrapsen huposchomenos_]); nor 'If he _has commenced and finished_,' but 'If he _commenced and finished_' ([Greek: _arxamenos sunetelese_]). A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays
- Note: where Loiasis is endemic (West Africa), all treatment with diethylcarbamazine, should commence with 3 mg/kg x 2 days (protocole for Loiasis) whatever form of filaria is being treated. Chapter 11
- Another survey at this location will be carried out after the commencement of the new school year. 3.
- After a short break James will commence his winter training for the forthcoming indoor season.
- One day, the beginning of a new career journey will commence. Today is NOT that day.
- Traced downward, it covers the antero-superior surface of the stomach and the commencement of the duodenum, and is carried down into a large free fold, known as the gastrocolic ligament or greater omentum. XI. Splanchnology. 2e. The Abdomen
- And so, with no further ado, let the hunting commence.
- At length, perhaps, all are rewarded by the welcome sight of a tiny trickle in one corner, or perhaps the hole turns out a "duffer," and the weary, weary work must be commenced again in a fresh spot. Spinifex and Sand
- Nevertheless, she put one foot in front of the other numbing herself to the pain and commenced her trudge.
