begin - Meaning in Konkani

begin - Meaning in Konkani

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Definitions and Meaning of begin in English

Begin noun

1. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992)

begin verb

1. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

   Examples

   • "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"
   • "He began early in the day"
   • "Let's get down to work now"
   • "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"
   • "We began working at dawn"
   • "Who will start?"
2. set in motion, cause to start

   Examples

   • "begin a new chapter in your life"
   • "The Iraqis began hostilities"
   • "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"
3. begin to speak or say

   Example

   • "`Now listen, friends', he began"
4. begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language

   Examples

   • "She began Russian at an early age"
   • "We started French in fourth grade"
5. achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative

   Examples

   • "This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation"
   • "You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war"
6. begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object

   Examples

   • "begin a cigar"
   • "She started the soup while it was still hot"
   • "We started physics in 10th grade"
7. have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense

   Examples

   • "Prices for these homes start at $250,000"
   • "The DMZ begins right over the hill"
   • "The second movement begins after the Allegro"
8. have a beginning characterized in some specified way

   Examples

   • "Her day begins with a workout"
   • "My property begins with the three maple trees"
   • "The novel begins with a murder"
   • "The semester begins with a convocation ceremony"
9. have a beginning, of a temporal event

   Examples

   • "The company's Asia tour begins next month"
   • "WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland"
10. be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series

    Examples

    • "A terrible murder begins the novel"
    • "The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester"
    • "The number `one' begins the sequence"

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