Word Meanings - STARTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race. 2. A dog that rouses game.
Related words: (words related to STARTER)
- JOURNEYWORK
Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade. - JOURNEYER
One who journeys. - JOURNEY-BATED
Worn out with journeying. Shak. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - JOURNEYMAN
Formerly, a man hired to work by the day; now, commonly, one who has mastered a handicraft or trade; -- distinguished from apprentice and from master workman. I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well. Shak. - JOURNEY
day's journey, OF. jornée, jurnée, a day, a day's work of journey, F. journée, fr. OF. jorn, jurn, jor a day, F. jour, fr. L. diurnus. See 1. The travel or work of a day. Chaucer. We have yet large day, for scarce the sun Hath finished half - STARTER
1. One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race. 2. A dog that rouses game. - UNDERLOAD STARTER
A motor starter provided with an underload switch. - SELF-STARTER
A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal- combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.