What is "starter"

Self-starter \Self`-start"er\, n. A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand; -- called also a starter.

c.1400, stertour "instigator; one who starts," agent noun from start (v.). Mechanical sense is from 1875. For starters "to begin with" is 1873, American English colloquial. Starter home is from 1976; starter set is from 1946, originally of china.

n. 1 Someone who starts something. 2 # The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag 3 # (context baseball English) A starting pitcher. 4 Something that starts something. 5 # An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine 6 # A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp 7 # A yeast culture used to start a fermentation process 8 The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish. 9 (context team sports English) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game. 10 A dog that rouses game.

1. n. an electric motor for starting an engine [syn: starter motor, starting motor]

2. a culture containing yeast or bacteria that is used to start the process of fermentation or souring in making butter or cheese or dough; "to make sourdough you need a starter"

3. a contestant who is in the game at the beginning

4. the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition [syn: dispatcher]

5. any new participant in some activity [syn: newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, neophyte, freshman, newbie, entrant]

6. food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) [syn: appetizer, appetiser]

7. a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle [syn: crank]

Starter may refer to:

Starter is the name of two Magic: The Gathering starter-level sets. The first Starter (later known as Starter 1999) came out on August 27, 1999 and was the fourth starter level set. It was followed by Starter 2000, the fifth and final starter set, on April 24, 2000.

A starter (also self starter, self, or starter motor) is an electric motor, pneumatic motor, hydraulic motor, an internal-combustion engine in case of very large engines or other device used for rotating an internal-combustion engine so as to initiate the engine's operation under its own power.

Internal-combustion engines are feedback systems, which once started rely on the inertia from each cycle to initiate the next cycle. In a four-stroke engine, the third stroke releases energy from the fuel, powering the fourth (exhaust) stroke and also the first two (intake, compression) strokes of the next cycle, as well as powering the engine's external load. To start the first cycle at the beginning of any particular session, the first two strokes must be powered in some other way than from the engine itself. The starter motor is used for this purpose and is not required once the engine starts running and its feedback loop becomes self-sustaining.

Starter is a Franco-Belgian comics series created by André Franquin (drawings) and Jidéhem (drawings and scripts) in Spirou.

In 1952, Jacques Wauters create Starter, a column dedicated to automobiles, in Spirou.

In 1956. André Franquin, doing illustration for this columns, draw a little mechanic character, named ''Starter'.

In 1957, overloaded with work, André Franquin leave illustration of the automobile's column to Jidéhem; he shows a marked talent for mechanical drawing. Thereafter, Jidéhem do both drawings and text for the automobile's column until 1978. Starter presents more than 700 tests and reports with aesthetic ot technical drawings.

First only textual, Starter experience his own adventures in comics, which become integrated into Sophie series continuing to present the automobile's column in Spirou.

Since, several books have been published picking up some automobile tests and drawings from the Starter Columns.