start a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning); "he got his start because one of the regular pitchers was in the hospital"; "his starting meant that the coach thought he was one of their best linemen"
kickoff -
the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"
middle the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"
ending,
end the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending"
point in time,
point sharp end; "he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"; "he broke the point of his pencil"
birth the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child"
incipience,
incipiency beginning to exist or to be apparent; "he placed the incipience of democratic faith at around 1850"; "it is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency"