initiate 'bring into being' originate 'bring into being' start 'bring into being'
prepare strike up open up instigate constitute launch devise mount establish initiate originate innovate found stage organize premise arrange plant constitutionalize institute open
begin 'COD: perform or undergo the first part of (an action or activity). ' initiate 'COD: cause (a process or action) to begin.' open 'FN: begin an attack (esp. with "fire").' swing (into) 'FN: start (a very active, vigorous activity) in response (to something).' get started 'FN: begin (a preliminary part or the very first part of a task)' start 'COD: begin to do. ' launch (into) 'FN: begin an activity energetically and enthusiastically' enter 'COD: begin to be involved in' commence 'COD: begin. '
The family established the trust through a transfer of funds. Zellig Harris established Penn's linguistics department.
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He 'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work_board of his chuck_wagon. This initiates the second step of glossary lookup- connecting the information cell of forms in the text form list to dictionary forms. Instead of isolating the literal flatness by specifying and circumscribing it, the pasted paper or cloth releases and spreads it, and the artist seems to have nothing left but this undepicted flatness with which to finish as_well_as start his picture. The reflection of radiation originating from the anode holder and reflected back to it by the surrounding metal surfaces should also be small because of the specular characteristic of the metal surfaces and of the specific geometry. But the liaison successfully started in the last days of autumn was now languishing. Lumumba further complicated the U. N. 's mission by initiating small`` wars'' with the secessionist province of Katanga and with South_Kasai which, under Albert_Kalonji, wanted to secede as_well. Large planes juxtaposed with other large planes tend to assert themselves as independent shapes, and to_the_extent that they are flat, they also assert themselves as silhouettes; and independent silhouettes are apt to coincide with the recognizable contours of the subject from which a picture starts( if it does start from a subject). The group the American_Association_for_Health_,_Physical_Education_,_and_Recreation( a division of the National_Education_Association) initiated a conference which brought_together representatives of the National_Rifle_Association, SAAMI and the American_Fishing_Tackle_Manufacturers. However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so_that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war. Similar measurements are being initiated to resolve a large discrepancy in the heat_of_formation of another important combustion product, beryllium fluoride. Their strategy was sound enough and, he reasoned, had been defeated only by Philip_Spencer 's unwillingness to sanction an idea he had not originated. This trend has often been ascribed to the cult of the Five Elements itself, as though they had served as the base for all the rest; but why did the Old Chinese postulate five elements, when the Ancient Near East- which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence in human life and activities- recognized only four? If communications work, his decision would be instantly known in_all command_posts that would originate the actual go order. The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at_least since John_Pendleton_Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank_Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature. But what could the Eichmann Trial initiate? `` That 's what started all the trouble in_the_first_place. `` Ah, you 're too old'', was invariably his ungallant and untrue retort whenever I suggested`` starting a family''. Up_to_date, however, his garden was still more_or_less of a mess, he had even started his workshop and if there was a meadow pond in the neighborhood he had found it. I started the seed in a flat in June and set_out the little pansies in a cold_frame. Do start fires one or two hours ahead_of_time to obtain a lasting bed of glowing coals. And it is thought by many who think_about such things that Quasimodo is the logical culmination of a school that started with Monet, progressed through Kandinsky and the cubist Picasso, and blossomed just recently in Pollock and De_Kooning. They opposed the Forand bill, which would have placed the major burden of financial support upon the individual himself through compulsory payroll deduction; yet they supported the Eisenhower administration which will cost a small state like ours approximately five million dollars( matched incidentally by a federal grant) to initiate. Some opposition to the home_rule movement started to be heard yesterday, with spokesmen for the town 's insurgent Democratic leadership speaking out against the home_rule charter in favor of the model municipal league charter. As_a_matter_of_fact, Fogg and his plane did n't get beyond Pennsylvania in the race- an engine oil leak forced him down- but the flying service and school he started subsequently were first_steps in paying_off his wry-faced backers. A high_frequency starter was used to start the arc. Hand_in_hand with the legislative program is the industry 's self originated and directed safety program. A tsunami may be started by a sea_bottom slide, an earthquake or a volcanic_eruption. I like to make a seedbed right in the open, though many people start them successfully in cold_frames.