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.