beginning 音标拼音: [bɪg'ɪnɪŋ]
n .
U 开端,开始;
C 起源
U 开端,开始;
C 起源
beginning 期初
Beginning 开始
BGN (
G )
beginning 开始 期初
beginning adj 1 :
serving to begin ; "
the beginning canto of the poem "; "
the first verse " [
synonym : {
beginning (
a )}, {
first }]
n 1 :
the event consisting of the start of something ; "
the beginning of the war " [
ant : {
conclusion }, {
ending },
{
finish }]
2 :
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 " [
synonym : {
beginning }, {
commencement }, {
first },
{
outset }, {
get -
go }, {
start }, {
kickoff }, {
starting time },
{
showtime }, {
offset }] [
ant : {
end }, {
ending }, {
middle }]
3 :
the first part or section of something ; "`
It was a dark and stormy night '
is a hackneyed beginning for a story " [
ant :
{
end }, {
middle }]
4 :
the place where something begins ,
where it springs into being ; "
the Italian beginning of the Renaissance "; "
Jupiter was the origin of the radiation "; "
Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River "; "
communism '
s Russian root " [
synonym :
{
beginning }, {
origin }, {
root }, {
rootage }, {
source }]
5 :
the act of starting something ; "
he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations " [
synonym : {
beginning }, {
start },
{
commencement }] [
ant : {
finish }, {
finishing }]
Beginning \
Be *
gin "
ning \,
n .
1 .
The act of doing that which begins anything ;
commencement of an action ,
state ,
or space of time ;
entrance into being or upon a course ;
the first act ,
effort ,
or state of a succession of acts or states .
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1913 Webster ]
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth . --
Gen .
i .
1 .
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2 .
That which begins or originates something ;
the first cause ;
origin ;
source .
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I am . . .
the beginning and the ending . --
Rev .
i .
8 .
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3 .
That which is begun ;
a rudiment or element .
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow . --
Dryden .
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4 .
Enterprise . "
To hinder our beginnings ." --
Shak .
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Syn :
Inception ;
prelude ;
opening ;
threshold ;
origin ;
outset ;
foundation .
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Begin \
Be *
gin "\,
v .
i . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Began }, {
Begun };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n . {
Beginning }.] [
AS .
beginnan (
akin to OS .
biginnan ,
D .
&
G .
beginnen ,
OHG .
biginnan ,
Goth .,
du -
ginnan ,
Sw .
begynna ,
Dan .
begynde );
pref .
be -
an assumed ginnan . [
root ]
31 .
See {
Gin }
to begin .]
1 .
To have or commence an independent or first existence ;
to take rise ;
to commence .
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Vast chain of being !
which from God began . --
Pope .
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2 .
To do the first act or the first part of an action ;
to enter upon or commence something new ,
as a new form or state of being ,
or course of action ;
to take the first step ;
to start . "
Tears began to flow ." --
Dryden .
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When I begin ,
I will also make an end . --
1 Sam .
iii .
12 .
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1913 Webster ]
130 Moby Thesaurus words for "
beginning ":
abecedarian ,
aboriginal ,
alpha ,
anlage ,
antenatal ,
anticipation ,
appearance ,
authorship ,
autochthonous ,
babyhood ,
basal ,
beginnings ,
birth ,
budding ,
childhood ,
coinage ,
commencement ,
conception ,
concoction ,
contrivance ,
contriving ,
cradle ,
creation ,
creative ,
creative effort ,
dawn ,
dawning ,
day ,
derivation ,
devising ,
earliness ,
early hour ,
early stage ,
elemental ,
elementary ,
embryonic ,
emergence ,
fabrication ,
fetal ,
first crack ,
first stage ,
foresight ,
formative ,
foundational ,
freshman year ,
fundamental ,
generation ,
genesis ,
gestatory ,
grass roots ,
ground floor ,
hatching ,
head ,
head start ,
improvisation ,
in embryo ,
in its infancy ,
in the bud ,
inaugural ,
inception ,
inceptive ,
inchoate ,
inchoation ,
inchoative ,
incipience ,
incipiency ,
incipient ,
incunabula ,
incunabular ,
infancy ,
infant ,
infantile ,
initial ,
initiative ,
initiatory ,
introductory ,
invention ,
inventive ,
making do ,
mintage ,
nascence ,
nascency ,
nascent ,
natal ,
nativity ,
onset ,
opening ,
origin ,
original ,
origination ,
outset ,
outstart ,
parturient ,
parturition ,
postnatal ,
pregnancy ,
pregnant ,
prenatal ,
prevenience ,
prevision ,
primal ,
primary ,
prime ,
primeval ,
primitive ,
primogenial ,
procreative ,
prologue ,
provenience ,
radical ,
radix ,
readiness ,
rise ,
root ,
rudiment ,
rudimental ,
rudimentary ,
running start ,
setout ,
source ,
spring ,
sprout ,
start ,
stem ,
stock ,
taproot ,
time to spare ,
ur ,
very beginning ,
youth
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