beginning start commencement | the act of starting something, he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations |
attack tone-beginning | a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase |
conviction judgment of conviction condemnation sentence | (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed, the conviction came as no surprise |
beginning | the first part or section of something, `It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story |
syntax sentence structure phrase structure | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences |
sentence | a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language, he always spoke in grammatical sentences |
simple sentence | a sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses |
complex sentence | a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause |
loose sentence | a complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows |
periodic sentence | a complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause |
compound sentence | a sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses |
declarative sentence declaratory sentence | a sentence (in the indicative mood) that makes a declaration |
run-on sentence | an ungrammatical sentence in which two or more independent clauses are conjoined without a conjunction |
topic sentence | a sentence that states the topic of its paragraph |
sentence stress | the distribution of stresses within a sentence |
alliteration initial rhyme beginning rhyme head rhyme | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse, around the rock the ragged rascal ran |
question interrogation interrogative interrogative sentence | a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply, he asked a direct question, he had trouble phrasing his interrogations |
beginning | the event consisting of the start of something, the beginning of the war |
beginning origin root rootage source | the place where something begins, where it springs into being, the Italian beginning of the Renaissance, Jupiter was the origin of the radiation, Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River, communism's Russian root |
prison term sentence time | the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned, he served a prison term of months, his sentence was toyears, he is doing time in the county jail |
life sentence life | a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives, he got life for killing the guard |
a beginning commencement first outset get-go start kickoff starting time showtime offset | the time at which something is supposed to begin, they got an early start, she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her |
sentence condemn doom | pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law, He was condemned to ten years in prison |
beginning(a) first | serving to begin, the beginning canto of the poem, the first verse |
in the first place earlier in the beginning to begin with originally | before now, why didn't you tell me in the first place? |
primitively originally in the beginning | with reference to the origin or beginning |