starting line
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2.0
- noun
- /ˈstɑrtɪŋ laɪn/
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línea de salida
- Director: Take your position on the starting line.
Step over the line, stand, you know, sit in the car on the start line, the the lights are going from red to green.
- Step over the line, stand, you know, sit in the car on the start line, the the lights are going from red to green.
- So just getting to be there on the starting line and you know, seeing Peter take off was really cool.
- So, so we get up and we go and we had to, we we late for the start line.
- So it's probably worth belaboring the point a little bit about the people don't even get to the starting line.
- And hopefully making things such that we all have an equal playing field, that we all have the same starting line.
- I'm starting it at the I'm standing at the starting lines and BAM, I do this thing.
- And so, so of course I agree that the starting line isn't fair.
- It is a right of passing to get over that, you know, starting line, to get over the nerves before starting a race.
Examples
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It's a glorious day here where a field of 51 racers stream full speed ahead from the starting line in Miami.
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The green flag is out... and they're approaching the starting line.
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So just getting to be there on the starting line and you know, seeing Peter take off was really cool.
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Okay, you can go to the starting line.
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And the cars are at the starting line.
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Take your place at the starting line!
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The man could tell as he pulled away from the starting line that this was going to be a good day at the track.
Fiction book (2000) -
It's a tense moment now at the starting line.
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On the day of the race, Emily stood at the starting line.
Fiction book (2002) -
Take your place at the starting line!
Synonyms
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1.0
The time or place when something begins
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3.3
The starting line marked on the ground for a race or game
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4.1
The place or time where an event begins
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4.8
A line that shows where people start a race
An invisible or marked line on a pool table behind which cue balls are placed at game start
A post that marks where a race begins, often for horses
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a marked line indicating where participants begin a race' is directly and compositionally derived from 'starting' (initial/beginning) + 'line' (a mark or boundary). This noun phrase follows a common and cross-linguistically supported modifier + noun pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase starting line comes from races where runners stood behind a marked line and waited for a signal to start. Because that line showed where the race 'began', today starting line means the place where something begins.