start up

See also: startup, start-up, and Start-up

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /stɑːˈtʌp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /stɑɹˈtʌp/

Verb

start up (third-person singular simple present starts up, present participle starting up, simple past and past participle started up)

Examples
The sound of a car engine starting up: (file)

1. (intransitive) To rise suddenly.

   He started up when he heard the scream.

2. (transitive) To commence the operation of; to activate; to launch.

   The four of them started up a law practice.

3. (intransitive) To begin to operate.

   The engine started up right away.

4. (intransitive, colloquial) To begin.

   The band started up playing.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:start up.

Derived terms

• startup

 

Translations

to rise suddenly

• Finnish: ponnahtaa pystyyn
• German: auftauchen (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀνορούω (anoroúō)

• Russian: вывалиться (ru) (vyvalitʹsja), взя́ться (ru) (vzjátʹsja), вынырнуть (ru) (vynyrnutʹ), заявиться (ru) (zajavitʹsja), нагрянуть (ru) (nagrjanutʹ)

to begin to operate

• Dutch: opstarten (nl)
• Finnish: käynnistyä (fi) (intr.); käynnistää (fi), laittaa päälle, perustaa (fi) (tr.)

See also

• autostart
• launch

 

Anagrams

• upstart