initial

[in·i·tial]

The first letter of your name is your initial. The first thing you say to someone is your initial greeting. Initial is something that occurs first or at the beginning.

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Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.

Noun
the first letter of a word (especially a person''s name); "he refused to put the initials FRS after his name"

Verb
mark with one''s initials

Adjective S.
occurring at the beginning; "took the initial step toward reconciliation"


a.
Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.

a.
Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name.

n.
The first letter of a word or a name.

v. t.
To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials.


Initial

In*i"tial , a. [L. initialis, from initium a going in, entrance, beginning, fr. inire to go into, to enter, begin; pref. in- in + ire to go: cf. F. initial. See Issue, and cf. Commence.] 1. Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease. 2. Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name.

Initial

In*i"tial, n. The first letter of a word or a name.

Initial

In*i"tial, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Initialed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Initialing.] To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials. [R.]

Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.

The first letter of a word or a name.

To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials.

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Usage Examples

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

I think it can be fun to be single and date-like when you don't want a relationship. Or when you've just gotten out of a relationship, and, after get over the initial shock, your thinking, Hey, it's kind of cool being single.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.

To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

Internet marketing entrepreneurs have truly opened my eyes to just how important a quick turnaround time can be. Often times, an interview they conduct with me today is online by the next morning. The interviewee is then able to start making money less than 24 hours after the initial interview.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

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