Get Started

Definition: Get Started

Get Started

Verb

1. Start to be active; "Get cracking, please!".

Synonyms: Get Started

Synonyms: bestir oneself (v), get cracking (v), get going (v), get moving (v), get rolling (v), get weaving (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Get Started

English words defined with "get started": commence ♦ dawn ♦ embark on ♦ get off the ground ♦ hobbyhorse ♦ start, start up ♦ take off. (references)

Specialty definitions using "get started": activation barrier ♦ computer literacy ♦ Demon Internet Ltd., demoscene ♦ IBM 1620 ♦ ORPHEUS ♦ Peeping Tom of Coventry ♦ ROOSEVELT ♦ urban legend. (references)

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Modern Usage: Get Started

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Now if you wanna let go of my neck, I can get started. (One Bad Day; writing credit: Chad Dalberg; Joshua Lou Friedman) I guess the question I'm asked most often is how did I get started with all this and whenever I'm asked that question I always tell this story, and you can believe it because it is a true story, although I am a pathological liarbut not really. (Harry Anderson's Hello Sucker; writing credit: Harry Anderson) So, how'd you get started in this business? (Ronin; writing credit: J.D. Zeik) Aah, he'll never get started. I'll make public opinion out there within 5 hours! (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; writing credit: Sidney Buchman)
Lyrics	Just get started (Dancing On the Ceiling; performing artist: Lionel Richie) WE CAN GET STARTED AS LONG (Hit Me Off; performing artist: New Edition)
Movie/TV Titles	I Can't Get Started (2002) Walk Away the Pounds with Leslie Sansone: Get Up and Get Started (2001) Richard Simmons: Get Started (1985) I Can't Get Started (1985)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Get Started

Domain	Title
Books	Runner's World Complete Book of Women's Running: The Best Advice to Get Started, Stay Motivated, Lose Weight, Run Injury-Free, Be Safe, and Train for (reference) Becoming a Designer: Leading Design Professionals Talk Candidly About What It Takes to Get Started and Succeed As a Graphic Designer (reference) Import/Export: How to Get Started in International Trade (reference) How to Get Started in Real Estate Investing (reference) Career Success With Pets: How to Get Started, Get Going, Get Ahead (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Import/Export: How to Get Started in International Tradenal Trade (reference) Walk Away the Pounds 2-Pack: Super Fat Burning + Get Up and Get Started High Calorie Burn (reference) Leslie Sansone: Walk Away the Pounds - Get Up and Get Started (reference) Tae-Bo 2 - Get Ripped - Instructional / Get Started (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Get Started

Author	Quotation
Emo Philips	When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas...
Scottish Prayer	O Lord, point me right for thou knowest if I get started moving wrong, thou thyself could not change me.
W. Clement Stone	So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
	That's why many fail -- because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Get Started

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Quicker we get started, surer it is we get there.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Speeches: Get Started

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	Before I get started here, I want to thank my dear friend, Margaret Thatcher, for being part of yet another important milestone in my life and for those very kind words.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Get Started

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
get started	8
get started in modeling	4
atkins diet get started	4
get started modeling	3
business get started	3
i can t get started	3
get started on writing a book	3
get started in the music industry	3
don get started t	3
get started in the music business	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Get Started

Language		Translations for "get started"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		päästä alkuun. (various references)

French		se remettre en route, mettre en marche, démarrer (get away, get off), commencer. (various references)

Pig Latin		etgay artedstay

Russian		приступать (approach, enter on). (various references)

Turkmen		atarmak (get started (about cooking)). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Get Started

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-r-s-t-t-t"
	-2 letters: attested, attester, gestated, greatest, restaged, restated, retasted, targeted, tattered.
	-3 letters: dearest, derates, dragees, ergates, estated, estreat, gestate, getters, greased, redates, restage, restate, retaste, sedater, started, stetted, stretta, strette, targets, tartest, tatters, testate, tetrads, tetters, treated.
	-4 letters: agreed, agrees, aretes, attest, daters, derate, derats, desert, deters, detest, dragee, eagers, eagres, easter, eaters, edgers, egesta.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-r-s-t-t-t"
	+4 letters: interdigitates.
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