Definition of begins

"begins" in the noun sense

1. Begin, Menachem Begin

Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992)

"begins" in the verb sense

1. get down, begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence

take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

"We began working at dawn"

"Who will start?"

"Get working as soon as the sun rises!"

"The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"

"He began early in the day"

"Let's get down to work now"

2. begin, start

have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense

"The DMZ begins right over the hill"

"The second movement begins after the Allegro"

"Prices for these homes start at $250,000"

3. begin, lead off, start, commence

set in motion, cause to start

"The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"

"The Iraqis began hostilities"

"begin a new chapter in your life"

4. begin

begin to speak or say

"`Now listen, friends', he began"

5. begin

be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series

"The number `one' begins the sequence"

"A terrible murder begins the novel"

"The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester"

6. begin

have a beginning, of a temporal event

"WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland"

"The company's Asia tour begins next month"

7. begin, start

have a beginning characterized in some specified way

"The novel begins with a murder"

"My property begins with the three maple trees"

"Her day begins with a workout"

"The semester begins with a convocation ceremony"

8. begin, start

begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object

"begin a cigar"

"She started the soup while it was still hot"

"We started physics in 10th grade"

9. begin

achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative

"This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation"

"You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war"

10. begin

begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language

"She began Russian at an early age"

"We started French in fourth grade"

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Quotations for begins

Charity begins at home. [ Proverb ]

Whatever begins, also ends. [ Seneca ]

When war begins, hell opens. [ Proverb ]

Where pride begins, love ceases. [ Lavater ]

Nothing begins, and nothing ends.
That is not paid with moan;
For we are born in others' pain,
And perish in our own. [ Francis Thompson ]

Love begins too well to end well. [ Daumas ]

Progress begins with the minority. [ G. W. Curtis ]

When war begins, then hell openeth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Man begins to die before he is born. [ Proverb ]

Folly ends where genuine hope begins. [ Cowper ]

Where law ends, there tyranny begins. [ Earl of Chatham ]

When the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something. [ Robert Browning ]

Needles and pins, needles and pins!
When a man marries his trouble begins. [ Proverb ]

Enjoyment stops where indolence begins. [ Pollok ]

He begins to die that quits his desires. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It heeds not whence begins our thinking,
If to the end its flight is high. [ Dr. Johnson ]

No dearth but begins with a horse-manger. [ Proverb ]

The spirit of a youth
That means to be of note, begins betimes. [ Shakespeare ]

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins. [ Young ]

As soon as a man is born he begins to die. [ German Proverb ]

The day begins to break, and night is fled.
Whose pitchy mantle over-veil'd the earth. [ William Shakespeare ]

That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain,
And follows but for form,
Will pack, when it begins to rain,
And leave thee in a storm. [ William Shakespeare ]

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Dignity increases more easily than it begins. [ Seneca ]

A flower that dies when first it begins to bud. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Charity begins at hame, but shouldna end there. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Towards evening the lazy man begins to be busy. [ German Proverb ]

With women, friendship ends when rivalry begins.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there. [ Proverb ]

Ruin is most fatal when it begins from the bottom. [ Goldsmith ]

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. [ Proverb ]

Have not your cloak to make when it begins to rain. [ Proverb ]

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one pace. [ Lao-Tze ]

When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up. [ Duke Of Wellington ]

In love, one who ceases to be rich begins to be poor. [ Chamfort ]

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. [ Joseph Joubert ]

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. [ Coleridge ]

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. [ Proverb ]

A wise man begins in the end; a fool ends in the beginning. [ Proverb ]

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise then? [ Ben Jonson ]

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. [ Johnson ]

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. [ Washington ]

When love begins to sicken and decay it useth an enforced ceremony. [ Shakespeare ]

Scratching is bad, because it begins with pleasure and ends with pain. [ Proverb ]

Knowledge begins a gentleman, but it is conversation that completes him. [ Proverb ]

What a force of illusion begins life with us, and attends us to the end! [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. [ Sir Matthew Hale ]

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better. [ Johnson ]

Friendship that begins between a man and a woman will soon change its name.

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the charm. [ Fontanelle ]

When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins. [ Cowper ]

Friend, beware of fair maidens! When their tenderness begins, our servitude is near. [ Victor Hugo ]

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. [ Montesquieu ]

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and education must finish him. [ Locke ]

A bluestocking despises her duties as a woman, and always begins by making herself a man. [ Rousseau ]

Education begins the gentleman, but leading, good company, and reflection must finish him. [ Locke ]

Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Both are merely poses. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

As soon as a woman begins to dress loud, her manners and conversation partake of the same element. [ Haliburton ]

The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off, and ignorance begins. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery; at first it deceives, at last it betrays. [ Bacon ]

The term of man's life is half wasted before he has done with his mistakes and begins to profit by his lessons. [ Jane Taylor ]

Pity is sworn servant unto love; and of this be sure, wherever it begins to make the way, it lets the master in. [ Daniel ]

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself, one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls romance. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

In the opinion of the world marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the reverse; it begins all. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Now black and deep the night begins to fall, a shade immense; sunk in the quenching gloom, magnificent and vast, are heaven and earth. [ Thomson ]

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of his profession. [ Colton ]

Success resembles a generous wine which begins by exciting the intellectual faculties, and ends by plunging us into a stupid intoxication. [ Alfred Bougeart ]

When pleasure, like the midnight flower that scorns the eye of vulgar light, begins to bloom for sons of night and maids who love the moon. [ Moore ]

In a tête-à-tête a woman speaks in a loud tone to the man she is indifferent to, in a low tone to the one she begins to love, and keeps silent with the one she loves. [ Rochebrune ]

If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Words are but poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realises; and hence the secret of its strange, ineffable power. [ H. R. Haweis ]

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time. [ Judge Hale ]

In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and the child sleeps; the tones are companions of his dreams - they are the world in which he lives. [ Bettina von Arnim ]

Education does not commence with the alphabet; it begins with a mother's look, with a father's nod of approbation, or a sign of reproof; with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbearance. [ G. A. Sala ]

Real beauty ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself an exaggeration and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think one becomes all nose or all forehead, or something horrid. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned, if the accession be sudden; he is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder; people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so. [ Cecil ]

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable. Let us begin where she begins, go her pace, and close always where she ends, and we cannot miss of being good naturalists. [ William Penn ]

It takes twenty years to bring man from the state of embryo, and from that of a mere animal, as he is in his first infancy, to the point when his reason begins to dawn. It has taken thirty centuries to know his structure; it would take eternity to know something of his soul; it takes but an instant to kill him. [ Voltaire ]

Manhood begins when we have, in a way, made truce with necessity; begins, at all events, when we have surrendered to necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to necessity, and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in necessity we are free. [ Carlyle ]

People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor. [ Goethe ]

The mother begins her process of training with the infant in her arms. It is she who directs, so to speak, its first mental and spiritual pulsations; she conducts it along the impressible years of childhood and youth, and hopes to deliver it to the rough contests and tumultuous scenes of life, armed by those good principles which her child has received from maternal care and love. [ D. Webster ]

His tongue, like the tail of Samson's foxes, carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole field of the world on a flame. Himself begins table-talk of his neighbor at another's board, to whom he bears the first news, and adjures him to conceal the reporter; whose choleric answer he returns to his first host, enlarged with a second edition; so as it used to be done in the fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on the side apart, and provokes them to an eager conflict. [ Bishop Hall ]

We have no permanent habits until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up - and that is one of the main things. I have made it a rule to go to bed when there wasn't anybody left to sit up with; and I have made it a rule to get up when I had to. This has resulted in an unswerving regularity of irregularity. It has saved me sound, but it would injure another person. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

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Words within the letters of begins

2 letter words in begins (4 words)

3 letter words in begins (9 words)

4 letter words in begins (8 words)

5 letter words in begins (4 words)

6 letter words in begins (Anagrams) (3 words)

begins + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence begins

Words that start with begins (1 word)

Words with begins in them (1 word)

Words that end with begins (2 words)

Word Growth involving begins

Shorter words in begins

be beg begin

in gin begin

in gin gins

in ins gins

Longer words containing begins

rebegins