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    Definition of starting in English Dictionary

  • NounPLstartingsSUF-ing
    1. The act of something that starts.
      1. constant startings and stoppings
  • Verb
    1. present participle of start.
    2. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper.
        • The glacier was starting to calve even as we watched.
        • POSITIVE signs are starting to emerge in China but economists warn it's too early to tell whether Australia's biggest trading partner is turning the corner.
      2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
        • Starting with a couple of inconsistencies, the detective began to pull apart his alibi.
        • Starting at the zero-gravity of earth's core, accumulative acceleration is easily built up in a four-thousand-mile tube.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Nouns
        • Countable nouns
        • Verbs
          • Verb forms
            • Participles
              • Present participles
        Related Links:
        1. en startings
        2. en startingly
        3. en starting up
        4. en starting gun
        5. en starting bar
        Source: Wiktionary

        Meaning of starting for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "starting" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
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