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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
onset
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the onset of winter
▪ She dreaded the onset of winter.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
▪ These patients were characterised by an early onset and long duration of pernicious anaemia.
▪ It is studying applications to tests for a family history of early onset of Alzheimer's disease.
rapid
▪ Mumps Belladonna. Rapid onset and violent.
▪ It has a rapid onset of action and is useful in both initiating and maintaining sleep.
▪ Ipecacuanha Rapid onset over a few hours Nausea and vomiting runs right through this remedy Rapid onset over a few hours.
▪ It has an initial sedative effect that leads to more rapid sleep onset.
▪ Ipecacuanha Rapid onset over a few hours Nausea and vomiting runs right through this remedy Rapid onset over a few hours.
▪ This results in an overall lower quality of sleep despite the more rapid onset.
▪ This induced the rapid onset of apoptosis which can be quantitated by time-lapse cinemicroscopy.
sudden
▪ This is a severe pleural pain of sudden onset, accompanied by fever and severe difficulty in breathing.
▪ The codes mean this person had a skin rash, sudden onset.
▪ It may have sudden onset and progress rapidly.
▪ The sudden onset of severe weather conditions was thought to be a frequent result of disturbance to a site.
▪ Complaints of insomnia, impotence, or gout, or the sudden onset of a confusional state could be indicators.
■ NOUN
sleep
▪ The fourth cause of sleep onset insomnia is a stress-induced response to what is known as conditioned insomnia.
▪ This type of sleep onset insomnia is most often experienced by those who are accustomed to being in control of their lives.
▪ They also delay sleep onset, increase the chances of waking after sleep onset occurs, and decrease total sleep time.
▪ It has an initial sedative effect that leads to more rapid sleep onset.
■ VERB
delay
▪ Fig. 6.8 shows how increased bucket size delays the onset of synonym occurrence in a well randomized file.
▪ They also delay sleep onset, increase the chances of waking after sleep onset occurs, and decrease total sleep time.
▪ Breastfeeding can delay the onset of menstruation for three years.
▪ Of course it makes sense to delay the onset of drug use among kids.
▪ It may delay the onset of Aids, even if only by a small amount.
occur
▪ Resumption of development occurs just before the onset of seasonal rains.
▪ This symptom usually occurs at the onset of sleep or upon waking.
▪ Therefore, it is unlikely that reflux of acid or gas had occurred just before the onset of the contractile activity.
▪ Moreover, that those increases in recorded crime which did occur came after the onset of the panic.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Mundo de siete pozos was composed in the relatively sunny days before the onset of cancer.
▪ Secondly the standard routes to chaos imply the existence of a well-defined onset of chaotic behaviour.
▪ The curtains swung back to reveal Marie in a glistening silver robe and an expression suggesting the onset of migraine.
▪ The patients studied were seen and treated up to 3 hours from the onset of symptoms.
▪ This was designed before the onset of destabilization, and aimed to restructure the formal school system.
▪ Was its onset sudden or gradual?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Onset

Onset \On"set`\, n. [On + set.]

  1. A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.
    --Milton.

    The onset and retire Of both your armies.
    --Shak.

    Who on that day the word of onset gave.
    --Wordsworth.

  2. A setting about; a beginning; -- used especially of diseases or pathological symptoms.
    --Shak.

    There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
    --Bacon.

  3. Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage. [Obs.]
    --Johnson.

Onset

Onset \On"set`\, v. t.

  1. To assault; to set upon. [Obs.]

  2. To set about; to begin. [Obs.]
    --Carew.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
onset

1530s, "attack, assault," from on + set (n.); compare verbal phrase to set (something) on (someone). Weaker sense of "beginning, start" first recorded 1560s. Figurative use in reference to a calamity, disease, etc. is from 1580s.

Wiktionary
onset

n. 1 A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army. 2 (context medicine English) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent. 3 (context phonology English) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus. 4 (context acoustics English) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak. 5 (context obsolete English) A setting about; a beginning. 6 (context obsolete English) Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage. 7 the start (of something) vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To assault; to set upon. 2 (context obsolete English) To set about; to begin.

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WordNet
onset

  1. n. the beginning or early stages; "the onset of pneumonia" [syn: oncoming]

  2. (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons); "the attack began at dawn" [syn: attack, onslaught, onrush]

Gazetteer
Onset, MA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Massachusetts
Population (2000): 1292
Housing Units (2000): 910
Land area (2000): 1.083253 sq. miles (2.805612 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.215025 sq. miles (0.556913 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.298278 sq. miles (3.362525 sq. km)
FIPS code: 51160
Located within: Massachusetts (MA), FIPS 25
Location: 41.746424 N, 70.663251 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 02532
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Onset, MA
Onset
Wikipedia
Onset

Onset may refer to:

  • Onset (audio), the beginning of a musical note or sound
  • Interonset interval, a term in music
  • Syllable onset, a term in phonetics and phonology
  • Onset, Massachusetts, village in the United States
    • Onset Island (Massachusetts), a small island located at the western end of the Cape Cod Canal
  • The Onset, Liverpool indie rock group formed by Mike Badger of the La's

  • , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918

Onset (audio)

Onset refers to the beginning of a musical note or other sound. It is related to (but different from) the concept of a transient: all musical notes have an onset, but do not necessarily include an initial transient.

In phonetics the term is used differently - see syllable onset.

Usage examples of "onset".

But if ye like not the journey, abide here in this town the onset of Walter the Black.

So they took counsel together, and to some it seemed better to abide the onset on their vantage ground.

Because of the speed - and thus the intensity - of the onset of the rush, smoking is the most addictive mode of delivery for illicit drugs.

Most people are oblivious to the onset of dehydration, due in part to the lack of thirst.

Beginning at the onset of puberty, in most cases, it involves the gradual replacement of exocrine and endocrine glandular tissues with lipidous cells.

At the onset of the recitation Jack had wondered how geometers could be so inventive as to produce so many types and families of curves.

Note the insidious onset of late rejection after cessation of globulin therapy.

While the little waves leap in the sunset, And strike with a miniature shock, In sportive and infantine onset, The base of the iron-stone rock.

Nevertheless, Minnie, Lightening, and Orah showed no onset of doggy passion.

Maruja suffered the onset of phlebitis that caused severe pains in her legs.

Vintners, grocers and bakers commonly laid in large stocks well before the onset of the rains, while herds of cattle were driven into the covered pounds outside the Gate of Lilies, there to be fed on roots and hay, for slaughter as required.

But I recall the symptoms that occurred at its onset, and I shall report any such reoccurrence immediately.

Ude Neuyen, to the double breath of Sergeant Lu Wai and Letitia Dogias, the communications engineer, and wondered how it had been for the first colonists: listening to the breath of someone close by, waiting for the onset of the cough that meant a lover or child was going to die.

In the inhalational anthrax cases following September 11, the average time from exposure to the bacteria to the onset of symptoms was four days.

He had read about but never experienced the chill in the air, the cunning onset of dark, the sight of white villages, of animals seeking their nighttime roosts or holes, of nocturnal creatures stirring in the fugitive gloom, the general motivating tendency being one of rapid physical adaptation to a mistimed event.