Starting bar (Steam Eng.), a hand lever for working the valves in starting an engine. -- Starting hole, a loophole; evasion. [ Obs. ] -- Starting point, the point from which motion begins, or from which anything starts. -- Starting post, a post, stake, barrier, or place from which competitors in a race start, or begin the race. [ 1913 Webster ]
[差点 / 差點, chà diǎn, ㄔㄚˋ ㄉㄧㄢˇ]not quite; not good enough; almost; barely; a bit different; just about to; nearly starting; on the verge of#4782[Add to Longdo]
[差一点 / 差一點, chà yī diǎn, ㄔㄚˋ ㄧ ㄉㄧㄢˇ]same as 差點|差点; not quite; not good enough; almost; barely; a bit different; just about to; nearly starting; on the verge of#18324[Add to Longdo]
[差点儿 / 差點兒, chà diǎn r, ㄔㄚˋ ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄦ˙]erhua variant of 差點|差点, not quite; not good enough; almost; barely; a bit different; just about to; nearly starting; on the verge of#34856[Add to Longdo]
[王建民, Wáng Jiàn mín, ㄨㄤˊ ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄇㄧㄣˊ]Chien-Ming Wang (a Taiwanese starting pitcher for the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball, MLB)#47975[Add to Longdo]
[雅乐 / 雅樂, yǎ yuè, ㄧㄚˇ ㄩㄝˋ]formal ceremonial music of each succeeding Chinese dynasty starting with the Zhou; Korean a'ak; Japanese gagaku#67884[Add to Longdo]
[零声母 / 零聲母, līng shēng mǔ, ㄌㄧㄥ ㄕㄥ ㄇㄨˇ]absence of initial consonant; a Chinese syllable having no initial consonant (starting directly with the medial vowel)#158817[Add to Longdo]
[太极图说 / 太極圖說, Tài jí tú shuō, ㄊㄞˋ ㄐㄧˊ ㄊㄨˊ ㄕㄨㄛ]philosophical book by Song dynasty scholar Zhou Dun'yi 周敦頤|周敦颐, starting from an interpretation of the Book of Changes[Add to Longdo]
[闯王陵 / 闖王陵, Chuǎng Wáng líng, ㄔㄨㄤˇ ㄨㄤˊ ㄌㄧㄥˊ]mausoleum to late Ming peasant rebel leader Li Zicheng 李自成 (who styled himself Chuang Wang): one in Jiugongshan 九宫山 nature reserve, Tongshan county, Xianning prefecture, Hubei, and another in Shimen 石门, Changde 常德, Hunan, built starting in 1980[Add to Longdo]
[せんぱつ, senpatsu](n, vs, adj-no) (1) forerunner; advance party; going on ahead; (2) being in a (team sports) match or game from the start; starting; (P)#3391[Add to Longdo]
[ばんて, bante](n) (1) (yarn) count; (suf) (2) (as in 二番手) (See 一番手) n-th place (e.g. in a race); n-th in position (e.g. a starting lineup); (P)#8353[Add to Longdo]
[むこう, mukou](n) (1) opposite side; other side; opposite direction; (2) over there; that way; far away; beyond; (3) the other party; the other person; (4) future (starting now); (P)#8971[Add to Longdo]
[ふみきり, fumikiri](n) (1) railway crossing; railroad crossing; train crossing; level crossing; (2) starting line; scratch; (3) determination; (4) stepping over the edge of the ring (in sumo); (P)#9633[Add to Longdo]
[gorogoro](adv, n, vs, adv-to) (1) (on-mim) thunder; purring; grumbling (e.g. stomach); (2) something large and heavy starting to roll; (3) scattered about; (4) idleness; idle about; (5) having a foreign substance in (e.g. one's eye or stomach); (P)[Add to Longdo]
[アジアたいへいようせんそう(アジア太平洋戦争);アジア・たいへいようせんそう(アジア・太平洋戦争), ajia taiheiyousensou ( ajia taiheiyousensou ); ajia . taiheiyousensou ( ajia . taih](n) (See 十五年戦争, 太平洋戦争) Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)[Add to Longdo]
[kattoo-ba-; kattoo-ba](n) { comp } cutover; cut-over; starting new (IT) equipment; transferring from the old to a new (hardware and; or software) system.[Add to Longdo]
[ha-tomeiru ; ha-tome-ru ; haatome-ru](n) postcards associated with Respect-for-the-Aged Day, and sold every year starting in September (wasei[Add to Longdo]
[あんご, ango](n, vs) { Buddh } varsika (meditation retreat; usu. for 90 days starting on the 15th day of the 4th month of the lunisolar calendar)[Add to Longdo]
[する, suru](vs-i) (1) (uk) to do; (2) to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); (3) to serve as; to act as; to work as; (4) to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); (5) (as 〜にする, 〜とする) to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; (6) to decide on; to choose; (vs-i, vi) (7) (as 〜がする) to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); (8) to be (in a state, condition, etc.); (9) to be worth; to cost; (10) to pass (of time); to elapse; (suf, vs-i) (11) verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); (aux-v, vs-i) (12) (See お願いします, 御・お) creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); (13) (as 〜うとする, 〜ようとする) (See とする・1) to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to; (P)[Add to Longdo]
[かいこう, kaikou](n, vs) (1) holding a course (of lectures); offering a course; (2) beginning a series of one's lectures; starting a new course[Add to Longdo]
[かかり, kakari](n) (1) starting; engaging; (2) (esp. 掛かり, 掛り) expenses; costs; (3) (esp. 掛かり, 掛り; often as カカリ) (See カカリ) attack (esp. a corner approach in the game of go); (4) barb; (5) (掛かり, 掛り only) (esp. for government offices, railways, etc.) (See 係・かかり・1) charge; duty; person in charge; official; clerk[Add to Longdo]
[かけごえだおれ, kakegoedaore](n) starting with vigor but ending with no action; raising one's voice (in a call to action) and then failing to take action[Add to Longdo]
[みきりはっしゃ, mikirihassha](n, vs) starting a train before all the passengers are on board; making a snap decision; starting an action without considering objections to it any longer; (P)[Add to Longdo]
[ごせっけ, gosekke](n) (See 摂関) the five regent houses; five families of the Fujiwara clan (Konoe, Kujo, Nijo, Ichijo, and Takatsukasa) entrusted as imperial regents and advisors starting in the Kamakura period[Add to Longdo]