Meaning of Startup | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act or process of starting a process or machine.
   countable, uncountable
2. A kind of high-low or thigh-high boot worn by rustic people.
   dialectal, in-plural, obsolete
3. A new company or organization or business venture designed for rapid growth.
   countable, uncountable
4. A kind of gaiter or legging.
   dialectal, in-plural, obsolete
5. A folder (especially in Windows), containing shortcuts of applications or programs that start up automatically after a user signs in.
   capitalized, countable, often, uncountable
6. One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Since the launch⟳ early last⟳ year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open⟳ online courses, the ivory towers of academia have⟳ been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have⟳ been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make⟳ their existing business model⟳ obsolete.”

“Add⟳ an app to run⟳ automatically at startup in Windows 10, Microsoft Support⟳ 3. With the file⟳ location open⟳, press⟳ the Windows logo key + R, type⟳ shell:startup, then select⟳ OK. This opens the Startup folder. / 4. Copy⟳ and paste the shortcut to the app from the file⟳ location to the Startup folder.”

“1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, London: Hugh Singleton, “Februarie,” Glosse, Galage) a startuppe or clownish shoe.”

“But Hob and Iohn of the countrey they stept in churlishly, in their high startvps […]”

“1619, Michael Drayton, “The Ninth Eglogue” in Pastorals. Contayning Eglogves, With the Man in the Moone, London: John Smethwicke, reproduced in J. William Hebel (ed.), The Works of Michael Drayton, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1932, p. 564, When not a Shepheard any thing that could, But greaz’d his start-ups blacke as Autumns Sloe,”

“That young start-up hath all the glory of my overthrow⟳: if I can cross him any way, I bless myself every way.”

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