start out

English

Verb

start out (third-person singular simple present starts out, present participle starting out, simple past and past participle started out)

1. To emerge suddenly; to jump out. [from 14th c.]
2. To be or become conspicuous; to stand out. [from 16th c.]
   • 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 102:

     I do not find that any particulars of this day's conversation start out. But it was in general most agreeable.

3. To begin. [from 16th c.]

   He started out writing for the school magazine, and now he's a TV talk show celebrity.

   • 2024 March 20, Greg Morse, “XP64: the train the ^[sic]: [that] launched a new style”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 45:

     It would also form part of a new carriage design, which had started out on Swindon drawing office easels two years earlier.

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