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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Commence (0.01438 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Commence.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: commence
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: commence
commence
v 1: take the first step or steps in carrying out an action;
“We
began working at dawn”;
“Who will start?”;
“Get working
as soon as the sun rises!”;
“The first tourists began to
arrive in Cambodia”;
“He began early in the day”;
“Let's
get down to work now” [syn:
get down,
begin,
get,
start out,
start,
set about,
set out] [ant:
end]
2: set in motion, cause to start;
“The U.S. started a war in
the Middle East”;
“The Iraqis began hostilities”;
“begin a
new chapter in your life” [syn:
begin,
lead off,
start]
[ant:
end]
3: get off the ground;
“Who started this company?”;
“We
embarked on an exciting enterprise”;
“I start my day with
a good breakfast”;
“We began the new semester”;
“The
afternoon session begins at 4 PM”;
“The blood shed started
when the partisans launched a surprise attack” [syn:
start,
start up,
embark on]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Commence
Commence
\Com*mence"\ (k[o^]m*m[e^]ns"), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Commenced (k[o^]m*m[e^]nst"); p. pr. & vb. n.
Commencing.] [F. commencer, OF. comencier, fr. L. com- +
initiare to begin. See
Initiate.]
1. To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to
begin.
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Here the anthem doth commence. --Shak.
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His heaven commences ere the world be past.
--Goldsmith.
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2. To begin to be, or to act as. [Archaic]
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We commence judges ourselves. --Coleridge.
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3. To take a degree at a university. [Eng.]
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I question whether the formality of commencing was
used in that age. --Fuller.
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Commence
\Com*mence"\, v. t.
To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of.
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Many a wooer doth commence his suit. --Shak.
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Note: It is the practice of good writers to use the verbal
noun (instead of the infinitive with to) after
commence; as, he commenced studying, not he commenced
to study.
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