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start up

stɑrt əp
WordNet
Relief with the start of a horse carriage competition. On the left is the supervisor with a cloth in his hand, who gives the starting signal. The driver of the car wears a helmet and holds the reins. On the right the legs of a man who has fallen. Illustration for a book on Roman culture and customs.
Relief with the start of a horse carriage competition. On the left is the supervisor with a cloth in his hand, who gives the starting signal. The driver of the car wears a helmet and holds the reins. On the right the legs of a man who has fallen. Illustration for a book on Roman culture and customs.
  1. (v) start up
    get off the ground "Who started this company?","We embarked on an exciting enterprise","I start my day with a good breakfast","We began the new semester","The afternoon session begins at 4 PM","The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack"
  2. (v) start up
    get going or set in motion "We simply could not start the engine","start up the computer"
Illustrations
Allegory of the failure of the peace negotiations between France and the Allies, started on 9 March 1710 in a hunt and continued at Geertruidenberg. De Vrede on the back of a carriage that drives to the Palace of Versailles. With inscriptions and verses in Dutch and French. Unnumbered. Incorrectly included by Muller as the seventh print in the Vorstelyke Staat-Balans, a series of 7 numbered cartoons of the French in 1709 of the War of the Spanish Succession. Part of the print work published under the collective title 't Lust-Hof van Momus with the bundled series of cartoons during the years 1701-1713 of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Allegory of the failure of the peace negotiations between France and the Allies, started on 9 March 1710 in a hunt and continued at Geertruidenberg. De Vrede on the back of a carriage that drives to the Palace of Versailles. With inscriptions and verses in Dutch and French. Unnumbered. Incorrectly included by Muller as the seventh print in the Vorstelyke Staat-Balans, a series of 7 numbered cartoons of the French in 1709 of the War of the Spanish Succession. Part of the print work published under the collective title 't Lust-Hof van Momus with the bundled series of cartoons during the years 1701-1713 of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Allegory of the landing of the young pretender in Scotland in 1745 and the start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion (1745-1746). The young printmaker Karel Eduard Stuart comes ashore in Scotland, accompanied by the Pope, the Inquisition, Jesuits and Discord. With pistol and sword he dispels the personifications of Religion and Freedom. On the ground lie the worthless shares from the Windhandel of 1720. In the background the war rages, devils dance at gallows and the Pope burns books.
Allegory of the landing of the young pretender in Scotland in 1745 and the start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion (1745-1746). The young printmaker Karel Eduard Stuart comes ashore in Scotland, accompanied by the Pope, the Inquisition, Jesuits and Discord. With pistol and sword he dispels the personifications of Religion and Freedom. On the ground lie the worthless shares from the Windhandel of 1720. In the background the war rages, devils dance at gallows and the Pope burns books.
A vase between two volutes of leaf tendrils, which start on the vase.
A vase between two volutes of leaf tendrils, which start on the vase.
Start of the stairs in hall 352 with on the right a built-in display cabinet with porcelain. There is a carpet on the black and white checkered tile floor. Under the stairs view of a chair.
Start of the stairs in hall 352 with on the right a built-in display cabinet with porcelain. There is a carpet on the black and white checkered tile floor. Under the stairs view of a chair.
Fire in the salt chain at Arnemuiden, 7 July 1802. Depiction of the start of the fire at 11 pm. Civilians fleeing and wailing on the right and a burning salt shack on the left. The wood of the shack flies through the air and huge flames burst from the windows of the shack. In the background the contours of sawmills.
Fire in the salt chain at Arnemuiden, 7 July 1802. Depiction of the start of the fire at 11 pm. Civilians fleeing and wailing on the right and a burning salt shack on the left. The wood of the shack flies through the air and huge flames burst from the windows of the shack. In the background the contours of sawmills.
The month of Phalguna is the twelfth month of the Hindu calendar and starts between February 20 and March 21. The Holi party.
The month of Phalguna is the twelfth month of the Hindu calendar and starts between February 20 and March 21. The Holi party.
The peace negotiations in the buildings of the old town hall of Utrecht, started on January 29, 1712. On the right, in the background, the Dom. In the foreground, the arrival of the negotiators' carriages at the entrance to the town hall.
The peace negotiations in the buildings of the old town hall of Utrecht, started on January 29, 1712. On the right, in the background, the Dom. In the foreground, the arrival of the negotiators' carriages at the entrance to the town hall.
View of the auditorium at the start of the blazing fire in the theater. The public flees in panic. Part of a group of illustrations about the fire in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg on May 11, 1772.
View of the auditorium at the start of the blazing fire in the theater. The public flees in panic. Part of a group of illustrations about the fire in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg on May 11, 1772.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
The Federal Reserve printed up an extra $50 billion in small bills just in case people started hoarding money prior to the year 2000. Since nowhere near that much cash was needed, and there was a long-term storage problem, most of that money was recycled.
  1. Start up
    to rise suddenly, to come suddenly into notice
Quotations
If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.
Source Unknown
Jim Bakker
I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
Jim Bakker
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
Scott Mcnealy
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
John Plomp
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
Barbara Sher
Elizabeth Bowen
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Elizabeth Bowen
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary M. E. sterten; closely akin to Dut. and Low Ger. storten, to plunge, Ger. stürzen.

Usage in the news

Manheim 's aggressive buildup of powersports auctions continues with a recent high-profile acquisition and start-up of a new facility. powersportsbusiness.com

Via Christi starts up a new electronic medical record system this week. kwch.com

Harvard PhD has claim to an Emmy (won by start-up he founded, C-Cube, for its video chip). forbes.com

New Hampshire hunters are getting ready to hunt deer as muzzleloader season starts up today. mur.com

It can happen at any stage of the start-up life-cycle. inc.com

One quarter of US tech start-ups founded by an immigrant: study. ecnmag.com

It's not only the US that has start-up fever. inc.com

Strange Brewing is starting up at precisely the place in which most great breweries do. 5280.com

In the coming months, IPM Foods LLC, a start-up contract manufacturer, will try to resurrect low-acid canning without the can, using Tetra Pak's Recart packaging system. foodengineeringmag.com

Scrappy, young Web start-ups making apps for iPhones may be the darlings of the tech world, but enterprise software companies remain kings of the innovation economy in Massachusetts. bostonglobe.com

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Of Launching A Start-Up. forbes.com

A FEW start-up Internet companies are taking on a problem that goes back to the earliest days of online commerce -- micropayments. nytimes.com

Start-up Telnic says it has sold tens of thousands of.tel domains--but to whom. forbes.com

Start-up conditions may provide key insights about what's causing problems. chemicalprocessing.com

Two weeks after SeaMicro announced a system that houses up to 512 Intel Atom processing cores, fellow start up Tilera and ODM Quanta are launching their own 512-core offering based on Tilera's 64-core Pro64 chip. eweek.com

Usage in scientific papers

In section 3, we start with a warm up calculation.
The Point of View of the Particle on the Law of Large Numbers for Random Walks in a Mixing Random Environment

We start by recalling the structure of a Markov process up to the last time it visits its initial state before an independent exponential time.
Two recursive decompositions of Brownian bridge

We start with the case that f · f = f in the set A of all such epimorphisms, up to Aut(Q).
Finite covers of random 3-manifolds

This with ¯µ = µ − M 2 expression is valid only up to the onset where the gCFL starts.
Analytical and numerical evaluation of the Debye and Meissner masses in dense neutral three-flavor quark matter

This index is equal to a = n + m − 1 and reached for each j by a unique path of length 2m − 1 starting with m − j − 1 up steps followed by m + j down steps.
Integrability of graph combinatorics via random walks and heaps of dimers

Usage in literature

But first, before I start up river, run up to Mr. Little and get an inventory of his spare men and arms. "Gold Out of Celebes" by Aylward Edward Dingle

Suddenly she started up with eyes wide open, but eyes that saw not. "The Son of Monte Christo" by Jules Lermina

Keefe started up with a curse. "The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories" by Various

In a minute the train would start up and he'd be stuck here until the next stop. "It Could Be Anything" by John Keith Laumer

If he starts up here, we'll put for that tree. "When Life Was Young" by C. A. Stephens

Then the poor child was terribly frightened, and started up to run away. "Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen" by Hans Christian Andersen

At sight of them he started up hurriedly. "Brand Blotters" by William MacLeod Raine

I started up and lit another candle. "The Birthright" by Joseph Hocking

Then, starting up on one elbow, he listened intently. "The Panchronicon" by Harold Steele Mackaye

The sooner you start up the better it will be for me. "El Diablo" by Brayton Norton

Usage in poetry
"Young man, I say to thee, arise."
Who hears, he must obey:
Up starts the body; wide the eyes
Flash wonder and dismay.
"The Widow of Nain" by George MacDonald Author object (244)
She had na pu'd a double rose,
A rose but only twa,
Till up then started young Tam Lin,
Says, Lady, thou pu's nae mae.
"Tam Lin" by Anonymous Americas
Then up it started Brown Robin,
An an angry man was he:
"There comes nae man this bowr within
But first must fight wi me."
"Rose The Red And White Lily" by Andrew Lang Author object (36)
Nor do I feel one bitter thought
Start up within, that I
Should fix with early death my lot
And life's rich treasures nigh.
"The Last Sweet Walk" by Alexander Anderson
He listen'd for the traveller's tread,
The nightingale sung sweet,--
He started up, for now he heard
The sound of coming feet;
"Jaspar" by Robert Southey Author object (573)
I never can think upon Bantry's bright hills,
But her image starts up, and my longing eye fills;
And I whisper her softly, "Again, love, we'll meet!
And I'll lie in your bosom, and live at your feet."
"The Girl Of Dunbwy" by Thomas Osborne Davis