| starter | a culture containing yeast or bacteria that is used to start the process of fermentation or souring in making butter or cheese or dough, to make sourdough you need a starter |
crank
starter | a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle |
kick starter
kick start | a starter (as on a motorcycle) that is activated with the foot and the weight of the body |
lap joint
splice | joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together |
parallel bars
bars | gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights |
| self-starter | an electric starting motor that automatically starts an internalombustion engine |
| splice splicing | a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together, the break was due to an imperfect splice |
Stars and Bars
Confederate flag | the first flag of the Confederate States of America |
starter starter motor
starting motor | an electric motor for starting an engine |
uneven parallel bars
uneven bars | a pair of parallel bars set at different heights, used in women's gymnastics |
mustachio
moustachio
handle-bars | a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth) |
appetizer
appetiser
starter | food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) |
newcomer
fledgling
fledgeling
starter neophyte freshman newbie
entrant | any new participant in some activity |
| self-starter | an energetic person with unusual initiative |
| starter dispatcher | the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition |
| starter | a contestant in a team sport who is in the game at the beginning |
| splice | join by interweaving strands, Splice the wires |
| splice | join together so as to form new genetic combinations, splice genes |
| splice | join the ends of, splice film |
marry wed tie
splice | perform a marriage ceremony, The minister married us on Saturday, We were wed the following week, The couple got spliced on Hawaii |
a imprison
incarcerate
lag
immure
put behind bars
jail
jug
gaol
put away
remand
a | lock up or confine, in or as in a jail, The suspects were imprisoned without trial, the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life |