例句 |
kickoffnoun the point at which something beginsa political cycle in which an election marks not only the end of one campaign but also the kickoff for the next one alpha, baseline, beginning, birth, commencement, dawn, day one, genesis, get-go(also git-go), inception, incipience, incipiency, launch, morning, nascence, nascency, onset, outset, start, threshold drawing board, first base, ground zero, square onecreation, founding, inauguration, initiation, institution, originationcradle, fountain, fountainhead, germ, origin, root, seedbed, source, spring, well, wellspringdawning, openingadvent, appearance, arrival, debut(also début), emergencechildhood, infancy, youth close, conclusion, end, ending, omega cessation, closing, closure, completion, finale, finish, period, stop, termination, windup kick offverbto take the first step in (a process or course of action)I'll kick off the discussion on ethics with this question begin, commence, embark (on or upon), enter (into or upon), fall (to), get off, launch, lead off, open, start, strike (into) create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originateadopt, embrace, take on, take upestablish, father, found, institute, organize, pioneer, set up, spawnget around (to), get down (to), get round (to) get going, get to, set about conclude, end, finish, terminate cease, desist, discontinue, halt, knock off, lay off, quit, stopclose, completeabandon, forsake, leaveabolish, demolish, destroy, exterminate, extinguish, phase out slangto stop livingsurprisingly, the recluse was worth a cool million when he kicked off check out, conk (out), croak(slang), decease, demise, depart, die, drop, end, exit, expire, fall, flatline, go, kick in(slang), part, pass (on), pass away, peg out(chiefly British), perish, pop off, step out, succumb predeceaseconsume, disappear, dry up, fade, fail bite the dust, buy it(or buy the farm), give up the ghost, kick the bucket, snuff it(British) breathe, live come to, revivelingerbe, exist, subsistflourish, prosper, thrive in 1856 |