startup

English Online Dictionary. What means startup‎? What does startup mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈstɑɹtˌʌp/, [ˈstɑɹɾˌʌp]

Etymology 1

Deverbal from start up.

Alternative forms

• start-up

Noun

startup (countable and uncountable, plural startups)

1. The act or process of starting a process or machine.

   Antonym: shutdown

2. A new company or organization or business venture designed for rapid growth.
3. (computing, often capitalized) A folder (especially in Windows), containing shortcuts of applications or programs that start up automatically after a user signs in.

   Coordinate term: autostart

   • Add an app to run automatically at startup in Windows 10, Microsoft Support^[1]

     3. With the file location open, press the Windows logo key + R, type shell:startup, then select OK. This opens the Startup folder. / 4. Copy and paste the shortcut to the app from the file location to the Startup folder.

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Etymology 2

From start +‎ up, describing a boot that starts up (reaches up) to the middle of the leg.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɑːtəp/

Noun

startup (plural startups)

1. (obsolete, dialect, chiefly in the plural) A kind of high-low or thigh-high boot worn by rustic people.
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, London: Hugh Singleton, “Februarie,” Glosse,^[2]

     Galage) a startuppe or clownish shoe.

   • 1619, Michael Drayton, “The Ninth Eglogue” in Pastorals. Contayning Eglogves, With the Man in the Moone, London: John Smethwicke, reproduced in J. William Hebel (ed.), The Works of Michael Drayton, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1932, p. 564,^[4]

     When not a Shepheard any thing that could,

     But greaz’d his start-ups blacke as Autumns Sloe,

2. (obsolete, dialect, chiefly in the plural) A kind of gaiter or legging.
3. (obsolete) One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart.

References

• “startup, n1.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, January 2015.

Anagrams

• upstart

Czech

Noun

startup m inan

1. startup (new company or organization or business venture)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• start-up

Etymology

From English startup.

Noun

startup m (plural startups, diminutive startupje n)

1. startup (new company or organization or business venture)

Derived terms

• startupklimaat
• startupwereld

Related terms

• opstart, opstarten

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• start-up

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English startup.

Pronunciation

Noun

startup f (plural startups)

1. (economics) startup (a new company or organization or business venture)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstaɾtap/ [ˈst̪aɾ.t̪ap], /esˈtaɾtap/ [esˈt̪aɾ.t̪ap]
• Rhymes: -aɾtap

Noun

startup f (plural startups)

1. startup