Meaning of starter | Babel Free

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1. Someone who starts, or who starts something. The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag. A starting pitcher. A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment
2. Someone who starts, or who starts something.
3. The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag
4. The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
5. A starting pitcher
6. A starting pitcher.
7. A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment
8. A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
9. An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.
10. Something that starts something. An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine. A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp. A yeast culture, or a medium containing one, used to start a fermentation process
11. Something that starts something.
12. A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp.
13. A yeast culture, or a medium containing one, used to start a fermentation process.
14. Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
15. The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
16. A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
17. A dog that rouses game.
18. A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
    British, historical
19. Ellipsis of starter signal.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

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Examples

“The most charitable view taken of them by their colleagues was that, as late starters on the journey away from their Labour past, they had not fully understood that the SDP intended to be something new and not just a Mark II Labour Party […]”

“It's small, but it's a good starter house.”

“Goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga wasn’t a starter at Fulham.”

“The colour-light signals admitting directly to the platforms and the inner starters (for short-length departures well up the platforms) are two-aspect, while those immediately beyond them are three-aspect, but elsewhere four-aspect signals have been installed in association with route indicators.”

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