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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

start out en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To emerge suddenly; to jump out.
  2. To be or become conspicuous; to stand out.
    • I do not find that any particulars of this day's conversation start out. But it was in general most agreeable. 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 102
  3. To begin.
    • He started out writing for the school magazine, and now he's a TV talk show celebrity.
    • It would also form part of a new carriage design, which had started out on Swindon drawing office easels two years earlier. 2024 March 20, Greg Morse, “XP64: the train the ^([sic]): [that] launched a new style”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 45:

Forms

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starts out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
starting out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
started out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
started out Tense=Past lexicographic