Start vs. Alarm — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Start and Alarm
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Start
Begin or be reckoned from a particular point in time or space; come into being
We ate before the film started
The season starts in September
Below Roaring Springs the real desert starts
Alarm
An anxious awareness of danger
Some experts view the plan with alarm
The boat tilted and the boatmen cried out in alarm
Start
Cause to happen or begin
Those women started all the trouble
I'm starting a campaign to get the law changed
Two men started the blaze
Alarm
Make (someone) feel frightened, disturbed, or in danger
The government was alarmed by an outbreak of unrest
Start
Jerk or give a small jump from surprise or alarm
‘Oh my!’ she said, starting
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Alarm
Be fitted or protected with an alarm
This door is locked and alarmed between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m
Start
The point in time or space at which something has its origin; the beginning
The event was a shambles from start to finish
He takes over as chief executive at the start of next year
His bicycle was found close to the start of a forest trail
Alarm
Sudden fear or concern caused by the realization of danger or an impending setback.
Start
A sudden movement of surprise or alarm
She awoke with a start
The woman gave a nervous start
Alarm
A warning of existing or approaching danger
The committee's report issued an alarm about the dangerous condition of the town's buildings.
Start
To begin a movement, activity, or undertaking
She started to dance. The dog started barking. Once we start in, we'll get a feel for the project.
Alarm
A device that is used to warn of danger by means of a sound or signal
A fire alarm.
Start
To move on the initial part of a journey
They started for the summit.
Alarm
The sounding mechanism of an alarm clock
The alarm went off at 6:30.
Start
To have a beginning; commence
The movie starts at nine.
Alarm
A call to arms.
Start
To come quickly into view, life, or activity; spring forth
The boy's tears started when the balloon popped.
Alarm
To fill with alarm or anxious concern.
Start
To have as an initial part or job
I started as an assistant.
Alarm
To give warning to
"The soldiers ... killed every dog within three miles to prevent a bark that would alarm the enemy" (William Least Heat-Moon).
Start
To move one's body or a part of it suddenly or involuntarily
Started at the loud noise.
Alarm
To equip with or protect by an alarm
The dormitory doors are alarmed from 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM.
Start
(Sports) To be in the initial lineup of a game or race.
Alarm
A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
Start
To protrude or bulge
Eyes that fairly started from their sockets in fear.
Alarm
Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
Start
To become loosened or disengaged.
Alarm
A sudden attack; disturbance.
Start
To take the first step in doing
We start work at dawn.
Alarm
Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
Start
To cause to come into being; make happen or originate
Bad wiring started the fire. The website started the rumor.
Alarm
A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
The clock radio is a friendlier version of the cold alarm by the bedside.
Start
To set into motion, operation, or activity
Start an engine.
A shot that started the race.
Alarm
An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
You should set the alarm on your watch to go off at seven o'clock.
Start
To begin to attend
Start school.
Alarm
(transitive) To call to arms for defense
Start
To cause (someone) to have an initial position or role
The manager started him in marketing.
Alarm
(transitive) To give (someone) notice of approaching danger
Start
To play in the initial lineup of (a game).
Alarm
(transitive) To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.
Start
To put (a player) into the initial lineup of a game.
Alarm
(transitive) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
Start
To enter (a participant) into a race or game.
Alarm
(transitive) To keep in excitement; to disturb.
Start
To found; establish
Start a business.
Alarm
A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
Arming to answer in a night alarm.
Start
To tend in an early stage of development
Start seedlings.
Alarm
Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
Sound an alarm in my holy mountain.
Start
To rouse (game) from its hiding place or lair; flush.
Alarm
A sudden attack; disturbance; broil.
Thy palace fill with insults and alarms.
Start
To cause to become displaced or loosened.
Alarm
Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
Alarm and resentment spread throughout the camp.
Start
An act of beginning; an initial effort
I made a start on keeping a journal.
Alarm
A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum.
Start
The beginning of a new construction project
An application for a building start.
Alarm
To call to arms for defense; to give notice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.
Start
A result of an initial effort
What we did may not sound like much, but it's a start.
Alarm
To keep in excitement; to disturb.
Start
A place or time of beginning
At the start of the decade.
Alarm
To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
Alarmed by rumors of military preparation.
Start
A starting line for a race.
Alarm
Fear resulting from the awareness of danger
Start
A signal to begin a race.
Alarm
A device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
Start
An instance of beginning a race
A sprinter who improved her start.
Alarm
An automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
Start
An instance of being in the starting lineup for a game, especially as a pitcher
In five starts, he has three wins.
Alarm
A clock that wakes sleeper at preset time
Start
A startled reaction or movement.
Alarm
Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised;
I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview
The news of the executions horrified us
Start
A part that has become dislocated or loosened.
Alarm
Warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness;
The empty house alarmed him
We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries
Start
A position of advantage over others, as in a race or an endeavor; a lead
Our rivals have a three-month start in research.
Start
An opportunity granted to pursue a career or course of action.
Start
The beginning of an activity.
The movie was entertaining from start to finish.
Start
A sudden involuntary movement.
He woke with a start.
Start
The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
Captured pieces are returned to the start of the board.
Start
An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.
Start
(horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
Start
An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
To get, or have, the start
Start
A happening or proceeding.
Start
An instance of starting.
Start
A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
Start
A handle, especially that of a plough.
Start
The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
Start
The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
Start
(transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
Start
To set in motion.
To start a stream of water;
To start a rumour;
To start a business
Start
To begin.
Start
To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
To start the engine
Start
To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
Start
To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
Start
(intransitive) To begin an activity.
The rain started at 9:00.
Start
(intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
The speed limit is 50 km/h, starting at the edge of town.
The blue line starts one foot away from the wall.
Start
To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
Start
(intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise.
Start
(intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
Start
(transitive) To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
The hounds started a fox.
Start
(intransitive) To flinch or draw back.
Start
(transitive) To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
To start a bone;
The storm started the bolts in the vessel
Start
(intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
Start
To put into play.
Start
To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
To start a water cask
Start
To start one's periods (menstruation).
Have you started yet?
Start
To leap; to jump.
Start
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.
I start as from some dreadful dream.
Keep your soul to the work when ready to start aside.
But if he start,It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.
Start
To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start in business.
At once they start, advancing in a line.
At intervals some bird from out the brakesStarts into voice a moment, then is still.
Start
To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure.
Start
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 comeTo start my quiet?
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Cæsar.
Start
To bring into being or into view; to originate; to invent.
Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start.
Start
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.
Start
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.
Start
To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask.
Start
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.
Start
A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort.
For she did speak in starts distractedly.
Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or in a hurry.
Start
A sudden, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy.
To check the starts and sallies of the soul.
Start
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.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,Straining upon the start.
At a start he was betwixt them two.
Start
A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
Start
The handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle.
Start
The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.
Start
The arm, or lever, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
Start
A Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union which provided for stepwise reductions in the number of nuclear weapons possessed by each country.
Start
The beginning of anything;
It was off to a good start
Start
The time at which something is supposed to begin;
They got an early start
She knew from the get-go that he was the man for her
Start
A turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning);
He got his start because one of the regular pitchers was in the hospital
His starting meant that the coach thought he was one of their best linemen
Start
A sudden involuntary movement;
He awoke with a start
Start
The act of starting something;
He was responsible for the beginning of negotiations
Start
A line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
Start
A signal to begin (as in a race);
The starting signal was a green light
The runners awaited the start
Start
Advantage gained by an early start as in a race;
With an hour's start he will be hard to catch
Start
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
Start
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
Start
Leave;
The family took off for Florida
Start
Have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense;
The DMZ begins right over the hill
The second movement begins after the Allegro
Prices for these homes start at $250,000
Start
Bring into being;
He initiated a new program
Start a foundation
Start
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
Start
Move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm;
She startled when I walked into the room
Start
Get going or set in motion;
We simply could not start the engine
Start up the computer
Start
Begin or set in motion;
I start at eight in the morning
Ready, set, go!
Start
Begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job;
Take up a position
Start a new job
Start
Play in the starting line-up
Start
Have a beginning characterized in some specified way;
The novel begins with a murder
My property begins with the three maple trees
Her day begins with a work-out
The semester begins with a convocation ceremony
Start
Begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object;
Begin a cigar
She started the soup while it was still hot
We started physics in 10th grade
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