false start
21false start — A condition in which a gas turbine engine fails to attain a stable light up, and the engine does not accelerate to a self sustaining, or idling, RPM …
22false-start — /fawls stahrt /, v.i. Sports. to leave the starting line or position too early and thereby necessitate repeating the signal to begin a race. [1805 15] …
23(a) false start — a failed attempt to begin an activity or event. After a false start when he left his first job after only a week, he was offered some modelling work …
24false — adj. & adv. adj. 1 not according with fact; wrong, incorrect (a false idea). 2 a spurious, sham, artificial (false gods; false teeth; false modesty). b acting as such; appearing to be such, esp. deceptively (a false lining). 3 illusory; not… …
25start — start1 W2S2 [sta:t US sta:rt] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(begin doing something)¦ 2¦(begin happening)¦ 3¦(begin in a particular way)¦ 4¦(business/organization)¦ 5¦(job/school)¦ 6¦(car/engine etc)¦ 7¦(begin going somewhere)¦ 8¦(life/profession)¦… …
26start — 1 verb 1 BEGIN DOING STH (I, T) to begin doing something: start doing sth: I ve just started learning German. | We d better start getting dressed soon. | start to do sth: When Tom heard this he started to laugh uncontrollably. | Things started to …
27start — [[t]stɑ͟ː(r)t[/t]] ♦ starts, starting, started 1) VERB If you start to do something, you do something that you were not doing before and you continue doing it. [V to inf] John then unlocked the front door and I started to follow him up the stairs …
28start — I. verb Etymology: Middle English sterten; akin to Middle High German sterzen to stand up stiffly, move quickly Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. a. to move suddenly and violently ; spring < started angrily to his feet > …
29start — {{11}}start (n.) late 14c., a sudden movement, from START (Cf. start) (v.); meaning act of beginning to build a house is from 1946. That of opportunity at the beginning of a career or course of action is from 1849. False start first attested 1850 …
30False flag — operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to appear as though they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false… …
