NOUN | act | kickoff | (football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score |
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time | kickoff, beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, starting time, showtime, offset | the time at which something is supposed to begin | |
event | kickoff, send-off, start-off | a start given to contestants |
Sounds | kih'kao.f | |
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Rhymes | blastoff ... turnoff: 31 rhymes with aof... |
Meaning | (football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score. | |
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Category | football, football game | Any of various games / games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal |
Broader | beginning, start, commencement | The act of starting something |
place kick, place-kicking | (sports) a kick in which the ball is placed on the ground before kicking | |
Spanish | saque de centro |
Meaning | The time at which something is supposed to begin. | |
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Synonyms | beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, starting time, showtime, offset | |
Narrower | birth | The time when something begins (especially life) |
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 |
Opposite | end, ending | The point in time at which something ends |
middle | Time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period | |
Spanish | comienzo, inicio, principio, umbral | |
Catalan | començament, inici, primeria, primer, principi | |
Verbs | kick off | commence officially |
Meaning | A start given to contestants. | |
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Example | "I was there with my parents at the kickoff" | |
Synonyms | send-off, start-off | |
Broader | start | The beginning of anything |
Spanish | arranque, lanzamiento, partida, saque inicial, saque | |
Catalan | sacada inicial, sacada, servei inicial | |
Verbs | kick off | commence officially |
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