START UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does start up mean? 

• START UP (verb)
  The verb START UP has 2 senses:

1. get going or set in motion

2. get off the ground

  Familiarity information: START UP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• START UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get going or set in motion

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

start; start up

Context example:

start up the computer

Cause:

get going; go; start (begin or set in motion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "start up"):

kick-start (start (a motorcycle) by means of a kick starter)

hot-wire (start (a car engine) without a key by bypassing the ignition interlock)

re-start; restart (start an engine again, for example)

crank; crank up (start by cranking)

jump; jump-start; jumpstart (start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

startup (the act of setting in operation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Get off the ground

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

commence; embark on; start; start up

Context example:

The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack

Hypernyms (to "start up" is one way to...):

begin; commence; lead off; start (set in motion, cause to start)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "start up"):

inaugurate; kick off (commence officially)

open (begin or set in action, of meetings, speeches, recitals, etc.)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

startup (the act of starting a new operation or practice)

 Context examples 

The growl rose in the throat with the culmination of each forward-pushing movement, and ebbed down to start up afresh with the beginning of the next movement.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Something made me start up, a low, piteous howling of dogs somewhere far below in the valley, which was hidden from my sight.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Also of sitting down here, on a sofa, and seeing Traddles's hair start up, now his hat was removed, like one of those obtrusive little figures made of springs, that fly out of fictitious snuff-boxes when the lid is taken off.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)