Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 150
Starlight (a.) 有星光的；星光照耀的 Lighted by the
stars, or by the stars only; as, a starlight night.
A starlight evening and a morning fair. -- Dryden.
Starlight (n.) 星光 [U] The light of the stars.
Starlike (a.) 星形的；星般閃爍的 Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers.
Starlike (a.) Shining; bright; illustrious. -- Dryden.
The having turned many to righteousness shall confer a starlike and immortal brightness. -- Boyle.
Starlike (a.) Resembling a star; "they saw a starlike object in the sky".
Starling (n.) (Zool.) 【鳥】歐掠鳥；【建】擋水木樁 Any passerine bird belonging to Sturnus and allied genera. The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also stare, and starred. The pied starling of India is Sternopastor contra.
Starling (n.) (Zool.) A
Starling (n.) A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge for protection and support; -- called also sterling.
Rose-colored starling. (Zool.) See Pastor.
Starling (n.) Gregarious birds native to the Old World.
Starlink, () 星鏈 Is a satellite internet constellation being constructed by SpaceX [2] [3] providing satellite Internet access. [4] [5] The constellation will consist of thousands of mass-produced small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO), working in combination with ground transceivers. SpaceX plans to sell some of the satellites for military, [6] scientific, or exploratory purposes. [7] The SpaceX satellite development facility in Redmond, Washington houses the Starlink research, development, manufacturing, and orbit control. The cost of the decade-long project to design, build, and deploy the constellation was estimated by SpaceX in May 2018 to be at least US $10 billion. [8]
Starlit (a.) 星光照耀的 Lighted by the stars; starlight.
Starlit (a.) Lighted only by stars; "the starlit darkness".
Starmonger (n.) (Derogatory) 占星家 [C] A fortune teller; an astrologer; -- used in contempt. -- B. Jonson.
Compare: Derogatory
Derogatory (a.) 減損的；有傷品格的；貶低的；【語】貶義的 Showing a critical or disrespectful attitude.
‘She tells me I'm fat and is always making derogatory remarks.’
Compare: Contempt
Contempt (n.) [U] 輕視，蔑視 [（+for）]；恥辱，丟臉 The feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn.
‘He showed his contempt for his job by doing it very badly.’
Contempt (n.) Disregard for something that should be taken into account.
‘This action displays an arrogant contempt for the wishes of the majority.’
Contempt (n.) The offense of being disobedient to or disrespectful of a court of law and its officers.
[Count noun ]‘When he was found to have lied to the House this was a contempt.’
Phrases:
Hold in contempt: Judge (someone) to have committed the offense of contempt of court.
‘The advocate was held in contempt for subpoenaing the judge.’
Hold in contempt: Consider (someone or something) to be unworthy of respect or attention.
Beneath contempt: Utterly worthless or despicable.
‘Tawdry trash that is beneath contempt.’
Starn (n.) (Zool.) The European starling. [Prov. Eng.]
Starnose (n.) (Zool.) 星鼻鼴 A curious American mole (Condylura cristata) having the nose expanded at the end into a stellate disk; -- called also star-nosed mole.
Starost (n.) A nobleman who possessed a starosty. [Poland]
Starosty (n.) A castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life. [Poland] -- Brande & C.
Starproof (a.) Impervious to the light of the stars; as, a starproof elm. [Poetic] -- Milton.
Star-read (n.) Doctrine or knowledge of the stars; star lore; astrology; astronomy. [Obs.]
Which in star-read were wont have best insight. -- Spenser.
Starred (a.) 布滿星星的；有星號的；佩戴星章的；作為明星的 Adorned or studded with stars; bespangled.
Starred (a.) Influenced in fortune by the stars. [Obs.]
My third comfort, Starred most unluckily. -- Shak.
Starred (a.) Marked with an asterisk; "the starred items" [syn: asterisked, starred].
Starriness (n.) The quality or state of being starry; as, the starriness of the heavens.
Starry (a.) 布滿星星的；被星光照亮的；閃閃發光的；明亮的 Abounding with stars; adorned with stars. "Above the starry sky." -- Pope.
Starry (a.) Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame.
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influence? -- Sir W. Scott.
Starry (a.) Shining like stars; sparkling; as, starry eyes.
Starry (a.) Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate.
Starry+ray+(Zool.),+a+European+skate+({Raia+radiata">Starry ray (Zool.), a European skate ({Raia radiata); -- so called from the stellate bases of the dorsal spines.
Starry (a.) Abounding with or resembling stars; "a starry night"; "starry illumination" [ant: starless].
Starshine (n.) The light of the stars. [R.]
The starshine lights upon our heads. -- R. L. Stevenson.
Starshoot (n.) See Nostoc.
Star-spangled (a.) 布滿星星的；美國的；美國公民的 Spangled or studded with stars.
Star-spangled banner, 美國國歌；美國國旗（星條旗）The popular name for the national ensign of the United States; also the name of a poem, the words of which were composed by Francis Scott Key, which was adopted as the national anthem of the United States. -- F. S. Key.
Starstone (n.) (Min.) Asteriated sapphire.
started (imp. & p. p.) of Start
starting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Start
Start (v. i.) 出發，起程；開始，著手；突然跳起；吃驚 To leap; to jump. [Obs.]
Start (v. i.) To move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act.
And maketh him out of his sleep to start. -- Chaucer.
I start as from some dreadful dream. -- Dryden.
Keep your soul to the work when ready to start aside. -- I. Watts.
But if he start, It is the flesh of a corrupted heart. -- Shak.
Start (v. i.) To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start business.
At once they start, advancing in a line. -- Dryden.
At intervals some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still. -- Byron.
Start (v. i.) To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure.
To start after, To set out after; to follow; to pursue.
To start against, To act as a rival candidate against.
To start for, To be a candidate for, as an office.
To start up, To rise suddenly, as from a seat or couch; to come suddenly into notice or importance.
Start (v. t.) 使開始，開始 [O] [O4] [+to-v] [+v-ing]；引起；發起；創辦；使驚跳，驚起 To cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as, the hounds started a fox.
Upon malicious bravery dost thou come To start my quiet? -- Shak.
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar. -- Shak.
Start (v. t.) To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start. -- Sir W. Temple.
Start (v. t.) To cause to move or act; to set going, running, or flowing; as, to start a railway train; to start a mill; to start a stream of water; to start a rumor; to start a business.
I was engaged in conversation upon a subject which the people love to start in discourse. -- Addison.
Start (v. t.) To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate; as, to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel.
One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum. -- Wiseman.
Start (v. t.) (Naut.) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask.
Start (n.) [C] 出發；出發點；出發時間；起始，最初；開端；驚跳，驚嚇 [S1] The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion.
The fright awakened Arcite with a start. -- Dryden.
Start (n.) A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort.
For she did speak in starts distractedly. -- Shak.
Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or in a hurry. -- L'Estrange.
Start (n.) A sudden, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy.
To check the starts and sallies of the soul. -- Addison.
Start (n.) The beginning, as of a journey or a course of action; first motion from a place; act of setting out; the outset; -- opposed to finish.
The start of first performance is all. --Bacon.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. -- Shak.
At a start, At once; in an instant. [Obs.]
At a start he was betwixt them two. -- Chaucer.
To get the start, or To have the start, To begin before another; to gain or have the advantage in a similar undertaking; -- usually with of. "Get the start of the majestic world." -- Shak. "She might have forsaken him if he had not got the start of her." -- Dryden.
Start (n.) A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
Start (n.) The handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle. [Prov. Eng.]
Start (n.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.
Start (n.) (Mining) The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
Compare: Self-starter
Self-starter (n.) 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; -- called also a starter.
Starter (n.) One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race.
Starter (n.) A dog that rouses game.
Starter (n.) An electric motor for starting an engine [syn: starter, starter motor, starting motor].
Starter (n.) A contestant in a team sport who is in the game at the Beginning.
Starter (n.) The official who signals the beginning of a race or competition [syn: starter, dispatcher].
Starter (n.) Any new participant in some activity [syn: newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, newbie, entrant].
Starter (n.) Food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) [syn: appetizer, appetiser, starter].
Starter (n.) A hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle [syn: crank, starter].
Starter (n.) A culture containing yeast or bacteria that is used to start the process of fermentation or souring in making butter or cheese or dough; "to make sourdough you need a starter".
Startful (a.) Apt to start; skittish. [R.]
Startfulness (n.) Aptness to start. [R.]
Starthroat (n.) (Zool.) Any humming bird of the genus Heliomaster. The feathers of the throat have a brilliant metallic luster.
Starting () a. & n. from Start, v.
Startingly (adv.) By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically. -- Shak.
Startish (a.) Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse. [Colloq.]
Startled (imp. & p. p.) of Startle
Startling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Startle
Startle (v. i.) To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? -- Addison.
Startle (v. t.) To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise.
The supposition, at least, that angels do sometimes assume bodies need not startle us. -- Locke.
Startle (v. t.) To deter; to cause to deviate. [R.] -- Clarendon.
Syn: To start; shock; fright; frighten; alarm.
Startle (n.) A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.
After having recovered from my first startle, I was very well pleased with the accident. -- Spectator.
Startle (n.) A sudden involuntary movement; "he awoke with a start" [syn: startle, jump, start].
Startle (v.) To stimulate to action ; "..startled him awake"; "galvanized into action" [syn: startle, galvanize, galvanise].
Startle (v.) Move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room" [syn: startle, jump, start].
Startlingly (adv.) In a startling manner.
Startlingly (adv.) In a startling manner; "a startlingly modern voice" .
Startlish (a.) Easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish; -- said especially of a hourse. [Colloq.]
Start-up (n.) One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Start-up (n.) A kind of high rustic shoe. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
A startuppe, or clownish shoe. -- Spenser.
Start-up (a.) Upstart. [R.] -- Walpole.
Startup, WA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Washington
Population (2000): 817
Housing Units (2000): 356
Land area (2000): 3.905169 sq. miles (10.114342 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.083024 sq. miles (0.215031 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.988193 sq. miles (10.329373 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67595
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 47.865917 N, 121.744607 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Startup, WA
Startup
Starvation (n.) The act of starving, or the state of being starved.
Note: This word was first used, according to Horace Walpole, by Henry Dundas, the first Lord Melville, in a speech on American affairs in 1775, which obtained for him the nickname of Starvation Dundas.
"Starvation, we are also told, belongs to the class of 'vile compounds' from being a mongrel; as if English were not full of mongrels, and as if it would not be in distressing straits without them." -- Fitzed. Hall.
Starvation (n.) A state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period [syn: starvation, famishment].
Starvation (n.) The act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine; "the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender"; "they were
charged with the starvation of children in their care" [syn: starvation, starving].
Starvation (n.) [ U ] (C2) （常造成死亡的）饑餓，挨餓 The state of having no food for a long period, often causing death.
// 20 million people face starvation unless a vast emergency aid programme is launched.
// The animals had died of starvation.
// (Figurative) They pay starvation wages (= not enough money to live on).
Starved (imp. & p. p.) of Starve
Starving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Starve
Starve (v. i.) 挨餓，餓死 To die; to perish. [Obs., except in the sense of perishing with cold or hunger.] -- Lydgate.
In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules. -- Chaucer.
Starve (v. i.) To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.
Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. -- Pope.
Starve (v. i.) To perish or die with cold. -- Spenser.
Have I seen the naked starve for cold? -- Sandys.
Starving with cold as well as hunger. -- W. Irving.
Note: In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used in the United States.
Starve (v. t.) 使挨餓 To destroy with cold. [Eng.]
From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth. -- Milton.
Starve (v. t.) To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
Starve (v. t.) To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.
Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their convoy of provisions from Africa. -- Arbuthnot.
Starve (v. t.) To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.
Starve (v. t.) To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.
The pens of historians, writing thereof, seemed starved for matter in an age so fruitful of memorable actions. -- Fuller.
The powers of their minds are starved by disuse. -- Locke.
Starve (v.) Be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!" [syn: starve, hunger, famish] [ant: be full].
Starve (v.) Die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought" [syn: starve, famish].
Starve (v.) Deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners" [syn: starve, famish] [ant: feed, give].
Starve (v.) Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for [syn: crave, hunger, thirst, starve, lust].
Starve (v.) Deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel".
Starvedly (adv.) In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously.
Some boasting housekeeper which keepth open doors for one day, . . . and lives starvedly all the year after. -- Bp. Hall.
Starveling (n.) One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment.
Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. --Shak.
Starveling (a.) Hungry; lean; pining with want.
Starveling (n.) Someone who is starving (or being starved).
Starwort (n.) (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Aster. See Aster.
Starwort (n.) (Bot.) A small plant of the genus Stellaria, having star-shaped flowers; star flower; chickweed. --Gray.
Water+starwort,+an+aquatic+plant+({Callitriche+verna">Water starwort, an aquatic plant ({Callitriche verna) having some resemblance to chickweed.
Yellow starwort, a plant of the genus Inula; elecampane.
Starwort (n.) Low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowers; named for its alleged ability to ease sharp pains in the side [syn: stitchwort, greater stitchwort, starwort, Stellaria holostea].
Stasmia (n. pl. ) of Stasimon.
Stasimon (n.) In the Greek tragedy, a song of the chorus, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics. -- Liddell & Scott.
Stasis (n.) A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation.
Stasis (n.) An abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped.
Stasis (n.) Inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces.
Statable (a.) That can be stated; as, a statablegrievance; the question at issue is statable.
Statal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or existing with reference to, a State of the American Union, as distinguished from the general government. [R.]
I have no knowledge of any other kind of political citizenship, higher or lower, statal or national. -- Edward Bates.
Statant (a.) (Her.) In a standing position; as, a lion statant.
Statant (a.) Standing on four feet.
Statarian (a.) Fixed; settled; steady; statary. [Obs.]
Statarianly (adv.) Fixedly; steadly. [Obs.]
Statary (a.) Fixed; settled. [Obs.]
"The set and statary times of paring of nails and cutting of hair." -- Sir T. Browne.
State (n.) The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
State is a term nearly synonymous with "mode," but of a meaning more extensive, and is not exclusively limited to the mutable and contingent. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Declare the past and present state of things. -- Dryden.
Keep the state of the question in your eye. -- Boyle.
State (n.) Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
Thy honor, state, and seat is due to me. -- Shak.
State (n.) Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
She instructed him how he should keep state, and yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes. -- Bacon.
Can this imperious lord forget to reign, Quit all his state, descend, and serve again? -- Pope.
State (n.) Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
Where least of state there most of love is shown. -- Dryden.
State (n.) A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself. [Obs.]
His high throne, . . . under state Of richest texture spread. -- Milton.
When he went to court, he used to kick away the state, and sit down by his prince cheek by jowl. -- Swift.
State (n.) Estate, possession. [Obs.] -- Daniel.
Your state, my lord, again is yours. -- Massinger.
State (n.) A person of high rank. [Obs.] -- Latimer.
State (n.) Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6.
State (n.) The principal persons in a government.
The bold design Pleased highly those infernal states. -- Milton.
State (n.) The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
State (n.) A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic. [Obs.]
Well monarchies may own religion's name, But states are atheists in their very fame. -- Dryden.
State (n.) A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.
Municipal law is a rule of conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state. -- Blackstone.
The Puritans in the reign of Mary, driven from their homes, sought an asylum in Geneva, where they found a state without a king, and a church without a bishop. -- R. Choate.