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initiator noun

  • One who initiates.
 initiateur, initiatrice

initiative noun

  /ɪˈnɪʃətɪv/
  • A beginning; a first move.
  • A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
  • The ability to act first or on one's own.
 initiative

initial noun

  /-sɪjəl/ , /ɪˈniʃ(ɪj)əl/ , /ɪˈnɪʃəl/
  • The first letter of a word or a name.
  • In plural, the first letter of each word of a person's full name considered as a unit.
  • (typesetting, calligraphy) A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.
 initiale, lettrine, première lettre
  • (phonology) onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.
 initiale

initial adjective

  /-sɪjəl/ , /ɪˈniʃ(ɪj)əl/ , /ɪˈnɪʃəl/
  • Spatially first, placed at the beginning, in the first position; especially said of the first letter of a word.
 initial

initiate verb

  /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.eɪt/ , /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.ət/ , /ɪˈnɪʃ.ɪ.eɪt/ , /ɪˈnɪʃ.ɪ.ət/
  • (transitive) To begin; to start.
 initier, commencer, démarrer

initiation noun

  /ɪˌnɪʃ.iˈeɪ.ʃən/
  • The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced.
  • The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order.
 initiation

initial verb

  /-sɪjəl/ , /ɪˈniʃ(ɪj)əl/ , /ɪˈnɪʃəl/
  • (transitive) To sign one's initial(s), as an abbreviated signature.
 parapher

initialize verb

  /ɪˈnɪʃəlaɪz/
  • To assign initial values to something.
  • (computing) To assign an initial value to a variable.
  • (somewhat, dated) To reduce (a phrase) to an initialism, or a word to its initial.
 initialiser

initialism noun

  /ɪˈnɪʃəlɪzəm/
  • (linguistics) A term formed from the initial letters of several words or parts of words, which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
 sigle

initiate noun

  /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.eɪt/ , /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.ət/ , /ɪˈnɪʃ.ɪ.eɪt/ , /ɪˈnɪʃ.ɪ.ət/
  • One who has been through a ceremony of initiation.
 initié
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