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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
starting point
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Frye emphasized that his suggestions were just a starting point for discussion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As always, use this list as a starting point for your own selections.
▪ But these areas then become the starting point for further subdivision and countless small refinements conditioned by the eye alone.
▪ For many, bebop, because of its rhythmic instinct and rebellious style, was a verbal starting point.
▪ Privatization is simply the wrong starting point for a discussion of the role of government.
▪ The following recipes might serve as a useful starting point for those who want to try smoking game.
▪ The natural starting point was the Westminster system.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Starting point

Starting \Start"ing\ (st[aum]rt"[i^]ng), a. & n. from Start, v.

Starting bar (Steam Eng.), a hand lever for working the valves in starting an engine.

Starting hole, a loophole; evasion. [Obs.]

Starting point, the point from which motion begins, or from which anything starts.

Starting post, a post, stake, barrier, or place from which competitors in a race start, or begin the race.

Wiktionary
starting point

n. 1 A place where a journey starts. 2 A subject matter to use to commence an activity.

WordNet
starting point

n. earliest limiting point [syn: terminus a quo]

Wikipedia
Starting Point

Starting Point (formerly Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien) was a morning television show on CNN anchored by Soledad O'Brien. The show aired from January 2012 to June 2013. Together with the program Early Start (4.00–6.00 a.m. weekdays), it replaced American Morning, which ran from September 2001 to December 2011, under a variety of presenters. Starting Point was itself replaced by New Day in June 2013, which is broadcast from 6.00–9.00 a.m. daily.

Starting Point (film)

Starting Point is a 2015 Polish short- documentary film about a women Aneta who sentenced to prison at age of 19 with charge of murder, after nine year she began working as a carer for elderly and met Helena who diagnosed with rheumatism. Starting Point was shortlisted with ten other documentaries from 74 entries submitted to 88th Academy Awards in Documentary Short Subject category. The final five nominations were scheduled to be announced on January 14, 2016.