Log in or Sign up
  1. starting point love

Definitions

Wiktionary

  1. n. A place where a journey starts.
  2. n. A subject matter to use to commence an activity.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. the point from which motion begins, or from which anything starts.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. earliest limiting point

Examples

  • “I loved returning to this universe when I finally used "Remembering Siri" as a starting point to write the 1,500 or so pages of HYPERION and THE FALL OF HYPERION.”

    Prayers To Broken Stones

  • “To be sure, the starting point of this plague in our countrylies in large part in the parliamentary institution in which irresponsibilityof the purest breed is cultivated.”

    Mein Kampf

  • “Not my idea of a good starting point for a diet, but hCG injections are recommended in some diet programs. hCG stimulates ovulation and testosterone production.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Flex Diet

  • “That is why the recent dramatic changes in the economic landscape of the Asia Pacific are the starting point for any cogent analysis of what is happening in the region.”

    Address by The Hon Alexander Downer, MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the Netherlands Atlantic Commission

  • “They had reached the head of the gulf, then a region of mangrove swamps and flat waters, but now covered by the wharves of Port Augusta, and within view of the starting point of the transcontinental railway.”

    The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders

  • “Its starting point was a study, published by Diamond in 1975, of bird distributions and community structure on fifty islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, just east of New Guinea.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Song of The Dodo

  • “Reference-group feelings can provide a powerful starting point for a RELATE campaign.”

    Simon & Schuster: Experiential Marketing

  • “A life using liquid methane as its basic solvent, solid ammonia as a starting point for nitrate synthesis: the plants use solar energy to build unsaturated carbon compounds, releasing hydrogen; the animals eat the plants and reduce those com­pounds again to the saturated form.”

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame

  • “Taiichi Ohno and the other innovators at postwar Toyota therefore really did gain their starting point from Henry Ford, but perhaps more from Highland Park than from the Rouge.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Machine That Changed the World

  • “For me'alaw means "from above him" and marks the starting point of His departure.”

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1

Show 10 more examples...

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘starting point’.

Comments

No comments yet...

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

Tweets

Looking for tweets for starting point.

‘starting point’ has been looked up 739 times, added to 1 list, and is not a valid Scrabble word.