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verbnountop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈstɑːtɪŋ//
  • United States//ˈstɑɹtɪŋ//
  • United States/[ˈstɑɹt.ɪŋ]/
  • United States/[ˈstɑɹɾɪŋ]/

The act of something that starts.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of startpresent participle and gerund of start

noun

  1. 1

    The act of something that starts.

    constant startings and stoppings

Forms

plural
startings
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).