Begin vs X - What's the difference?
begin | x |
(ambitransitive) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
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, title= To commence existence.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a verb begin
is (ambitransitive) to start, to initiate or take the first step into something.As a noun begin
is (nonstandard) beginning; start.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.begin
English
(wikipedia begin)Verb
- The apostle begins our knowledge in the creatures, which leads us to the knowledge of God.
- Ye nymphs of Solyma! begin the song.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.}}
- Vast chain of being! which from God began .