{
  "id": "start.action",
  "term": "start",
  "sense": "action",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "action",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to make a change begin",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "source.origin",
      "make.verb"
    ],
    "interaction": "the act of bringing about a change at its source through the coming together of parts into a persistent pattern",
    "novel_properties": [
      "initiation of change",
      "causal onset at source",
      "persistence of new state"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 1947, Bell Labs scientists observed the first controlled amplification of electrical signals in a germanium point-contact transistor.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2008 financial crisis began when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy on September 15, triggering global market collapses.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Human Genome Project officially launched on October 1, 1990, initiating coordinated DNA sequencing across multiple international labs.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "action.deed",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "start",
    "started",
    "starting",
    "starts"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added make.verb (L4) to components since the definition inherently relies on the idea of causing something to happen through assembly or agency."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-start.action"
}