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Outset vs Commence - What's the difference?

outset | commence |

As a noun outset

is the beginning or initial stage of something.

As a verb commence is

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outset

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the beginning or initial stage of something
    • He agreed and understood from the outset , so don't bother explaining again.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 15 , author=Michael Da Silva , title=Wigan 1 - 3 Bolton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Six successive defeats had left them rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table but, clearly under instructions to attack from the outset , Bolton started far the brighter.}}

    Anagrams

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    commence

    English

    Verb

    (commenc)
  • To begin, start.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • Here the anthem doth commence .
  • * (Oliver Goldsmith)
    • His heaven commences ere the world be past.
  • * , chapter=4
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
  • To begin to be, or to act as.
  • * (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
    • We commence judges ourselves.
  • (UK, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.
  • * Fuller
    • I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age.

    Antonyms

    * cease * stop

    Related terms

    * commencement