Start vs Commerce - What's the difference?

start | commerce |

As an acronym start

is (law).

As a verb commerce is

start

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) stert, from the verb . See below.

Noun

(en noun)

The beginning of an activity.

The movie was entertaining from start to finish.

* Shakespeare

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, / Straining upon the start .

A sudden involuntary movement.

He woke with a start .

* L'Estrange

Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or in a hurry.

* Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla

The sight of his scared face, his starts and pallors and sudden harkenings, unstrung me

The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.

An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.

Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=February 12 , author=Ian Hughes , title=Arsenal 2 - 0 Wolverhampton\ , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Wilshere, who made his first start for England in the midweek friendly win over Denmark, raced into the penalty area and chose to cross rather than shoot - one of the very few poor selections he made in the match. }}

A young plant germinated]] in a pot to be [[transplant, transplanted later.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) . More at (l).

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To begin, commence, initiate.

# To set in motion.

#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

I was engaged in conversation upon a subject which the people love to start in discourse.

#* , chapter=22

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}

# To begin.

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)

, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}

# (senseid)To initiate operation of a vehicle or machine.

# To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).

# To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.

#* Sir (1628–1699)

Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start .

To begin an activity.

* , chapter=1

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’

To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.

# To jerk suddenly in surprise.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

But if he start , / It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

I start as from some dreadful dream.

#* (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)

Keep your soul to the work when ready to start aside.

# To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.

#* Wiseman

One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum.

# To awaken suddenly.

#* (rfdate) (Mary Shelley)

I started from my sleep with horror

# To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Upon malicious bravery dost thou come / To start my quiet?

To break away, to come loose.

* 1749 , (John Cleland), (w) (Penguin 1985 reprint), page 66:

we could, with the greatest ease as well as clearness, see all objects (ourselves unseen) only by applying our eyes close to the crevice, where the moulding of a panel had warped or started a little on the other side.

(nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.

Usage notes

* In uses 1.1 and 1.2 this is a catenative verb that takes the infinitive (to'') or the gerund (''-ing ) form. There is no change in meaning. * For more information, see

Antonyms

* stop

Derived terms

* * starter

Etymology 3

Noun

(en noun)

A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.

A handle, especially that of a plough.

The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.

The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

(Webster 1913)

Anagrams

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commerce

English

Noun

(business) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.

Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.

* Macaulay:

Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.

* 1881 , :

Suppose we held our converse not in words, but in music; those who have a bad ear would find themselves cut off from all near commerce , and no better than foreigners in this big world.

(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.

A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.

(Hoyle)

Synonyms

* trade, traffic, dealings, intercourse, interchange, communion, communication * See also

Derived terms

* chamber of commerce * commercial

Verb

(commerc)

(dated) To carry on trade; to traffic.

Beware you commerce not with bankrupts. -B. Jonson.

(dated) To hold intercourse; to commune.

Commercing with himself. -Tennyson.

Musicians ... taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven. -Prof. Wilson.

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