beginning

1. The event consisting of the start of something (synset 107305628)
   "the beginning of the war"
   is a type of: happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent - an event that happens
   subtypes:

   • casus belli - an event used to justify starting a war
   • egress, emergence, issue - the becoming visible
   • inception, origin, origination - an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
   • generation, genesis - a coming into being
   • ground floor - becoming part of a venture at the beginning (regarded as position of advantage)
   • emergence, growth, outgrowth - the gradual beginning or coming forth
   • start - the beginning of anything
   • conception, creation - the event that occurred at the beginning of something
2. The time at which something is supposed to begin (synset 115290329)
   "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"
   is a type of: point, point in time - an instant of time
   subtypes:

   • birth - the time when something begins (especially life)
   • incipience, incipiency - beginning to exist or to be apparent
   • starting point, terminus a quo - earliest limiting point
   • threshold - the starting point for a new state or experience
   same as: commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time
3. The first part or section of something (synset 105876673)
   "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story"
   is a type of: division, part, section - one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
4. The place where something begins, where it springs into being (synset 108524579)
   "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"
   is a type of: point - the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
   subtypes:

   • derivation - the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
   • spring - a point at which water issues forth
   • fountainhead, head, headspring - the source of water from which a stream arises
   • headwater - the source of a river
   • wellhead, wellspring - the source of water for a well
   • jumping-off place, point of departure - a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched
   • birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience - where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
   • home - place where something began and flourished
   • point source - a concentrated source (especially of radiation or pollution) that is spatially constricted
   • trail head, trailhead - the beginning of a trail
   same as: origin, root, rootage, source
5. The act of starting something (synset 100236302)
   "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations"
   is a type of: change of state - the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics
   subtypes:

   • jumping-off point, point of departure, springboard - a beginning from which an enterprise is launched
   • activation - making active and effective (as a bomb)
   • attack, tone-beginning - a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase
   • constitution, establishment, formation, organisation, organization - the act of forming or establishing something
   • debut, entry, first appearance, introduction, launching, unveiling - the act of beginning something new
   • face-off - (ice hockey) the method of starting play; a referee drops the puck between two opposing players
   • first step, initiative, opening, opening move - the first of a series of actions
   • groundbreaking, groundbreaking ceremony - the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project
   • housing start - the act of starting to construct a house
   • icebreaker - a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere
   • inauguration, startup - the act of starting a new operation or practice
   • creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination - the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
   • installation, installing, installment, instalment - the act of installing something (as equipment)
   • jump ball - (basketball) the way play begins or resumes when possession is disputed; an official tosses the ball up between two players who jump in an effort to tap it to a teammate
   • kickoff - (football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score
   • recommencement, resumption - beginning again
   • scrum, scrummage - (rugby) the method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; play starts when the ball is thrown in between them and the two sides compete for possession
   • startup - the act of setting in operation
   specific instances: creation - (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence
   same as: commencement, start

1. Serving to begin (synset 301012803)
   "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse"
   similar to: opening - first or beginning
   same as: first

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