English > commencement: 3 senses > noun 1, time| Meaning | The time at which something is supposed to begin. |
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| Synonyms | beginning, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset |
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| Narrower | birth | The time when something begins (especially life) |
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| incipiency, incipience | Beginning to exist or to be apparent |
| terminus a quo, starting point | Earliest limiting point |
| threshold | The starting point for a new state or experience |
| Broader | point, point in time | An instant of time |
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| Opposite | end, ending | The point in time at which something ends |
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| middle | Time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period |
| Spanish | comienzo, inicio, principio, umbral |
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| Catalan | començament, inici, primeria, primer, principi |
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English > commencement: 3 senses > noun 3, act| Meaning | The act of starting something. |
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| Synonyms | beginning, start |
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| Instances | Creation | (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence |
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| Narrower | activation | making active and effective (as a bomb) |
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| attack, tone-beginning | A decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase |
| constitution, establishment, formation, organization, organisation | The act of forming or establishing something |
| face-off | (ice hockey) the method of starting play |
| first step, initiative, opening move, opening | The first of a series of actions |
| groundbreaking, groundbreaking ceremony | The ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project |
| housing start | The act of starting to construct a house |
| icebreaker | A beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere |
| inauguration, startup | The act of starting a new operation or practice |
| initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration | The act of starting something for the first time |
| installation, installing, installment, instalment | The act of installing something (as equipment) |
| introduction, debut, first appearance, launching, unveiling, entry | The act of beginning something new |
| jump ball | (basketball) the way play begins or resumes when possession is disputed |
| kickoff | (football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score |
| resumption, recommencement | Beginning again |
| scrum, scrummage | (rugby) the method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms |
| springboard, jumping-off point, point of departure | A beginning from which an enterprise / enterprise is launched |
| startup | The act of setting in operation |
| Broader | change of state | The act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics / characteristics |
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| Opposite | finish, finishing | The act of finishing |
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| Spanish | apertura, comienzo, incoación, iniciación, inicio, principio |
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| Catalan | començament, iniciació, inici, primeria, principi |
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| Verbs | commence | take the first ... / first step or steps in carrying out an action |
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| commence | set in motion, cause to start |
| commence | get off the ground |
