Found 3 items, similar to commence.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: commence berawal, memulai, mengawali, mulai
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. [1913 Webster] Here the anthem doth commence. --Shak. [1913 Webster] His heaven commences ere the world be past. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] 2. To begin to be, or to act as. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] We commence judges ourselves. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] 3. To take a degree at a university. [Eng.] [1913 Webster] I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age. --Fuller. [1913 Webster] Commence \Com*mence"\, v. t. To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of. [1913 Webster] Many a wooer doth commence his suit. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]