set out
Verb
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Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action (synset 200346415)
"We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now"subtypes:
- recommence - begin again
- strike out - set out on a course of action
- fall - begin vigorously
- jump off - set off quickly, usually with success
- get to - arrive at the point of
- auspicate - commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck
- attack - set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task
- break in - start in a certain activity, enterprise, or role
- launch, plunge - begin with vigor
- come on - occur or become available
- embark, enter - set out on (an enterprise or subject of study)
- bestir oneself, get cracking, get going, get moving, get rolling, get started, get weaving - start to be active
verb group: begin - begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language -
Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line (synset 201476839)
"lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"subtypes: compart - lay out in parts according to a plan
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Leave (synset 202018017)
"The family took off for Florida"subtypes:
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