Meaning of starting point | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The place where a journey starts.
   figuratively, sometimes
2. The first steps when commencing an activity.

Equivalents

Examples

“King's Cross Station proved to be the starting point of a journey that took me around the world.”

“Examining the data and facts will be a good starting point.”

“What Loehr called the Middle Western Chou is the probable starting point, that is, during the mid-eleventh century B.C.⁵⁸ when a breakdown in the old order of Phase I can be documented. For instance, a yu found at T'un-hsi, Anhui, (Plate 19) is decorated with intertwining birds both on the belly and lid and exemplifies this conversion.”

“Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, […].”

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