FALSE START

Meaning of FALSE START in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1815

1. : a premature start (as of a race or football play)

2. : an unsuccessful attempt to begin something (as a career)

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary. Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster. 2003

FALSE START — noun Date: 1815 a premature start (as of a race or football play), an unsuccessful attempt to begin something (as …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
FALSE-START — /fawls"stahrt"/ , v.i. Sports. to leave the starting line or position too early and thereby necessitate repeating the signal to …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FALSE START — 1. Sports. a premature start by one or more of the contestants, as in a swimming or track event, necessitating …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FALSE START — Function: noun Date: 1815 1 : a premature start (as of a race or football play) 2 : an unsuccessful …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
FALSE START — ■ noun an invalid start to a race. ↘an unsuccessful attempt to begin something.
Concise Oxford English vocab
FALSE START — [false start] n (1815) 1: a premature start (as of a race) 2: an unsuccessful attempt to begin something (as …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FALSE START — noun 1. an attempt to begin sth that is not successful : After a number of false starts, she finally …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FALSE START — ˌfalse ˈstart BrE AmE noun [countable] 1 . an unsuccessful attempt to begin a process or event: After several false …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FALSE START — ( false starts) 1. A false start is an attempt to start something, such as a speech, project, or plan, …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FALSE START — (~s) 1. A ~ is an attempt to start something, such as a speech, project, or plan, which fails because …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
FALSE START — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It takes some arranging, and at least one false start , to get the conference …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FALSE START — See ↑ START 9
Longman Activator English vocab
FALSE START — 1) фальстарт, сорванный старт 2) неудачное начало (спортивное) фальстарт; сорванный старт неудачное начало - to make a * неудачно начать …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
FALSE START — 1> спорт. фальстарт; сорванный старт 2> неудачное начало to make a false start - неудачно начать ( что-л. )
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
FALSE START — 1) фальстарт, сорванный старт 2) неудачное начало
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
FALSE START — 1) спорт. фальстарт; сорванный старт 2) неудачное начало to make a ~ - неудачно начать ( что-л. )
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
FALSE START — 1) спорт. фальстарт; сорванный старт 2> неудачное начало to make a false start - неудачно начать ( что-л. )
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
FALSE START — фальстарт, неудачное начало
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
FALSE START — фальстарт, неудачное начало
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
FALSE START — 1) фальстарт, сорванный старт 2) неудачное начало
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
FALSE START — 1) фальстарт, сорванный старт 2) неудачное начало
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
FALSE START — преждевременный старт, фальстарт
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь морских терминов
FALSE START — 1) фальстарт, сорванный старт 2) неудачное начало (спортивное) фальстарт; сорванный старт неудачное начало - to make a * неудачно начать …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
FALSE — adj false (1. incorrect; 2. deceitful, treacherous; 3. as in false teeth); false clave skeleton key
Interlingua English vocab
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
FALSE — I. ˈfȯls also -lts adjective ( -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English fals, faus, from Old French & Latin; Old French …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FALSE — (superl.) Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in …
Английский словарь Webster
FALSE — (superl.) Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false …
Английский словарь Webster
START — /stahrt/ , v.i. 1. to begin or set out, as on a journey or activity. 2. to appear or come …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FALSE — — falsely , adv. — falseness , n. /fawls/ , adj., falser, falsest , adv. adj. 1. not true or …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
START — I. ˈstärt verb Etymology: Middle English sterten; akin to Middle High German sterzen to stand up stiffly, move quickly Date: …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FALSE — I. ˈfȯls adjective ( fals·er ; fals·est ) Etymology: Middle English fals, faus, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, from Latin …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
START — vi a tail, or anything projecting like a tail. 2. start ·vi the arm, or level, of a gin, drawn …
Webster English vocab
FALSE — superl not in tune. 2. false ·adv not truly; not honestly; falsely. 3. false ·adj to feign; to pretend to …
Webster English vocab
FALSE — [false] adj fals.er ; fals.est [ME fals, fr. OF & L; OF, fr. L falsus, fr. pp. of fallere to …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FALSE — false BrE AmE fɔːls fɒls fɑːls ▷ falser ˈfɔːls ə ˈfɒls ə AmE ˈfɔːls ə r ˈfɑːls ə r ▷ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
START — / stɑːt; NAmE stɑːrt/ verb , noun ■ verb DOING STH 1. to begin doing or using sth : [ …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FALSE — / fɔːls; NAmE / adjective NOT TRUE 1. wrong; not correct or true : A whale is a fish. True …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
START — I. start 1 S1 W1 /stɑːt $ stɑːrt/ BrE AmE verb [ Word Family: noun : ↑ start , ↑ …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FALSE — false W3 /fɔːls $ fɒːls/ BrE AmE adjective [ Date: 900-1000 ; Language: Latin ; Origin: falsus , from fallere …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Английский основной разговорный словарь
FALSE — adj. & adv. --adj. 1 not according with fact; wrong, incorrect (a false idea). 2 a spurious, sham, artificial (false …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
START
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FALSE — adj. & adv. adj. 1 not according with fact; wrong, incorrect (a false idea). 2 a spurious, sham, artificial (false …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
START
Oxford English vocab
FALSE — adj. & adv. --adj. 1. not according with fact; wrong, incorrect (a false idea). 2 a spurious, sham, artificial (false …
Oxford English vocab
START — ( starts, starting, started) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. If you …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FALSE — Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If something is false , it …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
START — I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a computer starts up/boots up ▪ My computer takes ages to start up in …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FALSE — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a false confession (= one that is not true ) ▪ The officers were accused …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FALSE — (NOT SINCERE) [adjective] [disapproving] - (of a person or their manner) dishonest or not sincerea false smile/laughI don't like her …
Cambridge English vocab
START — Synonyms and related words : A, activate, advance, advantage, aid, allowance, alpha, arise, assistance, attack, avoid, backing, base, basis, be …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
START — See ↑ BEGINNING 1, ↑ START 1,13,16, ↑ SWITCH ON OR OFF 1 ◆◆◆ • ↑ at the beginning/start • …
Longman Activator English vocab
START — INDEX: to start doing something 1. to start doing something 2. to start an activity, job, speech etc by doing …
Longman Activator English vocab
FALSE — INDEX: 1. made to look real for dishonest purposes 2. an object that is made to look real for dishonest …
Longman Activator English vocab
START — n. 25B6; verb the meeting starts at 7.45 : BEGIN, commence, get under way, go ahead, get going; informal kick …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
FALSE — adj. 25B6; adjective a false report : INCORRECT, untrue, wrong, erroneous, fallacious, flawed, distorted, inaccurate, imprecise; untruthful, fictitious, concocted, fabricated, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
START — v. 1 Often, start off or up. begin, commence, get (something) going, get off the ground, originate, initiate, open, set …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
FALSE — adj. 1 untrue, unfactual, untruthful, wrong, amiss, mistaken, erroneous, incorrect, inaccurate, inexact, imprecise, faulty, flawed, invalid, unsound, unreal, imaginary, fictitious, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
START — 1. сущ. 1) а) отправление; начало at the start ≈ в начале from the start ≈ с начала for a …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
FALSE — 1. прил. 1) а) неверный, неправильный, ошибочный Syn : erroneous, wrong б) юр. несправедливый (о приговоре) 2) не соответствующий каким-либо …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
START — start.ogg 1. stɑ:t n 1. начало from start to finish - с начала до конца a start in life - …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
FALSE — false.ogg 1. fɔ:ls n разг. 1. лжец, обманщик 2. подделка; фальшивка 2. fɔ:ls a 1. ложный, неверный; ошибочный false accusation …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
START — 1) начало || начинать 2) старт; отправление || стартовать; отправлять(ся) 3) (за)пуск; включение || (за)пускать; включать 4) возбуждение, зажигание ( …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь

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