starting point

Main Entry:
base [beys]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: headquarters
Synonyms: camp, center, depot, dock, field, garrison, hangar, harbor, home, port, post, settlement, site, starting point, station, strip, terminal
Antonyms: annex, branch
Main Entry: commencement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ceremony marking the beginning of stage
Synonyms: admission, alpha, birth, bow, celebration, convocation, countdown, curtain-raiser, dawn, dawning, genesis, graduation, initiation, kickoff, onset, opener, opening, outset, proem, services, start, starting point, tee off
Antonyms: cessation, completion, end, ending, finish, stop
Main Entry: hypothesis
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: theory
Synonyms: antecedent, apriority, assignment, assumption, attribution, axiom, basis, belief, conclusion, condition, conjecture, data, deduction, demonstration, derivation, explanation, foundation, ground, guess, inference, interpretation, layout, lemma, philosophy, plan, position, postulate, premise, presupposition, principle, proposal, proposition, rationale, reason, scheme, shot in the dark, speculation, starting point, suggestion, supposition, surmise, system, tentative law, term, theorem, thesis
Antonyms: calcualtion, measurement, proof, reality, truth
Main Entry: origin
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning, inception
Synonyms: alpha, birth, blast off, commencement, creation, dawn, dawning, day one, early stage, embarkation, emergence, entrance, entry, forging, foundation, genesis, git go, inauguration, ingress, initiation, introduction, launch, nativity, opener, origination, outbreak, outset, rise, square one, start, starting point
Antonyms: close, completion, conclusion, death, end, finale, termination
Main Entry: origination
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: origin
Synonyms: beginning, birth, commencement, conception, creation, dawn, dawning, discovery, genesis, innovation, introduction, launch, source, start, starting point
Main Entry: root
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: base, core
Synonyms: basis, bedrock, beginnings, bottom, cause, center, crux, derivation, essence, essentiality, footing, foundation, fountain, fountainhead, fundamental, germ, ground, groundwork, heart, inception, infrastructure, mainspring, marrow, motive, nub, nucleus, occasion, origin, pith, provenance, provenience, quick, quintessence, radicle, radix, reason, rhizome, rock bottom, seat, seed, soul, source, starting point, stem, stuff, substance, substratum, tuber, underpinning, well
Notes: a rout is a disorderly crowd of people or an overwhelming defeat; a root is the usually underground organ of a plant that lacks buds or leaves or nodes and absorbs water and mineral salts - or the form of a word after all affixes are removed; a route is an established line of travel or access - or a road, course, or way for travel from one place to another
Antonyms: derivation, derivative, sprout
Main Entry: source
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning; point of supply
Synonyms: antecedent, author, authority, authorship, begetter, birthplace, cause, commencement, connection, dawn, dawning, derivation, determinant, expert, father, fount, fountain, fountainhead, horse's mouth, inception, informant, maternity, mother, onset, opening, origin, origination, originator, parent, paternity, provenance, provenience, rise, rising, root, specialist, spring, start, starting point, wellspring
Antonyms: effect, end, result
Main Entry: threshold
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: opening; beginning
Synonyms: brink, dawn, door, doorstep, doorway, edge, entrance, gate, inception, origin, outset, point, point of departure, sill, start, starting point, verge, vestibule
Main Entry: incipience
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning
Synonyms: alpha, basis, birth, blastoff, commencement, creation, dawn, dawning, day one, genesis, inauguration, inception, incipiency, induction, infancy, initiation, installation, introduction, kickoff, launch, leadoff, onset, opener, opening, origin, origination, outset, point of departure, preface, prelude, presentation, rise, root, rudiment, source, spring, square one, start, starting point, takeoff, threshold, top
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