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Debut vs Begin - What's the difference?

debut | begin |

As nouns the difference between debut and begin

is that debut is debut while begin is (nonstandard) beginning; start.

As a verb begin is

(ambitransitive) to start, to initiate or take the first step into something.

debut

English

(wikipedia debut)

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A performer's first-time performance to the public.
  • Since making its debut two years ago, the program has gained cult status.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=April 11 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Liverpool's performance - despite a defensive injury crisis that saw a promising debut for teenage academy graduate John Flanagan - was a resounding advert for Kenny Dalglish to be given the manager's job on a permanent basis.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, chiefly, US) to formally introduce, as to the public
  • Amalgamated Software Systems debuted release 3.2 in Spring of 2004.
  • to make one's initial formal appearance
  • Release 3.2 debuted to mixed reviews in Spring of 2004.

    Anagrams

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    begin

    English

    (wikipedia begin)

    Verb

  • (ambitransitive) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
  • * (John Locke) (1632-1705)
  • The apostle begins our knowledge in the creatures, which leads us to the knowledge of God.
  • * (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • Ye nymphs of Solyma! begin the song.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= 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.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • To commence existence.
  • * (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • Vast chain of being! which from God began .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nonstandard) Beginning; start.
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