beginner

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Starting and beginning
be in the first flush ofidiom
be/get in on the ground flooridiom
become
begin
branch out
develop
get down to businessidiom
grow
half-cock
here
here goes!idiom
hit the ground runningidiom
motion
start on something
start out
start/set/get the ball rollingidiom
starting
stirring
the ground floor
wheel

Examples of initiator

initiator
The end result of the intrinsic and extrinsic pathways is the activation of the initiator procaspases 2, 8, 9 and 10.
Given the ambitions held for it by its initiators, failure is little surprise.
This provides some evidence that the federal government responded to the initiators' claims, so that the majority of the initiatives were withdrawn.
Another initiator of these policy changes was big business.
It is the masks that are seen as the initiators of action, and performers should not try to 'control' them.
This is crucial for the emergence and existence of an initiator state.
Another event role, that of initiator, may be licensed by a higher functional projection.
Under discretion, the appropriations process is the initiator.
Naturally, in sports and music festivities they were the initiators.
The first caspases to become activated in the path to apoptosis are the 'initiator caspases', namely caspase-8 and caspase-9.
In addition, the priests were the real initiators, controllers and authorisers.
The logical interaction diagrams represent the type of message passed, the initiator and the respondent, and the temporal order of the messages.
Rather, they are depicted as aggressive initiators in the "checking out" scene.
Policy initiators exploit this event and define the situation as a problem requiring government action.
The fact pedigree of a fact is a document that is accessible only to the initiator agent.
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