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initial
  1. The first letter of a word or a name.
  2. In plural, the first letter of each word of a person's full name considered as a unit
  3. (typography, calligraphy) A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.
  4. (phonology) onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “We will need an initial on the form as proof of your accord.”
      “The large initial at the start of each chapter in the book was a nice touch.”
initiative
  1. A beginning; a first move.
  2. A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
  3. The ability to act first or on one's own.
  4. An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “You will need to have the initiative to educate yourself on these matters.”
      “We are looking for individuals with great initiative to drive our company forward.”
      “The showcase was a new initiative by the Fashion Council to exhibit emerging menswear talents.”
initiator
  1. One who initiates
  2. (chemistry) A substance that initiates a chain reaction or polymerization
  3. (computing) A task (in a mainframe computer) that initiates multiple jobs
  4. (medicine) A material whose presence in the body eventually leads to cancer
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  6. Examples:
    1. “He was the initiator of the scheme and probably its architect.”
      “After creating some initial noise its initiator immediately moved to disband it.”
      “For the synthetic studies, we made the peptides by polymerising an activated form of the amino acid using a nucleophile as an initiator.”
initiation
  1. The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced
  2. The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order.
  3. (chemistry) The first step of transcription or of transduction.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “He had to spend time alone in the forest as part of his initiation into adult life, but was expressly forbidden to hunt, to harm animals, or to ride in a war chariot.”
      “I announced the initiation of this program after a panel of the country's top health, medical and scientific leaders unanimously recommended to me that we move forward.”
      “I had no inclination to go through the barrage of insult and abuse that seemed the necessary initiation to the doubtful joy of Kavanagh's company.”
initialization
  1. (uncountable) The process of preparing something to begin.
  2. (countable) An act of preparing something to begin.
  3. (programming) An assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable
  4. Examples:
    1. “The message interface provides the initialization and control of the socket offload system.”
      “The real-time FIFO devices are built during the RTLinux installation and created in the initialization of the real-time modules.”
      “It greeted me with the usual initialization screen that calibrates the touch-screen, and it was good to go.”
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initialism
  1. A term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “An acronym is a word group created in a similar way to an initialism but which is pronounced as a word.”
      “It is usually acceptable to start a sentence with an acronym or initialism that begins with a capital letter.”
      “Pressed for an opinion after my first bite or two, I took refuge in the initialism I. C. P., Interesting Cultural Phenomenon.”
initials
  1. An abbreviation of a person's name, constructed by taking the initial letters of first, last, and sometimes middle name(s). See monogram
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  3. Examples:
    1. “These unique steering wheel key rings are made from stainless steel and can be personalized with your name or initials.”
      “It possessed secondary xylem and secondary phloem, which were produced by a bifacial vascular cambium with ray and fusiform initials.”
      “Although the initials in both cases designate motorcycle clubs, MCC groups are the acceptable face of the biking movement.”
initialese
  1. (informal) Language that is rendered confusing by many initialisms.
initialisation
  1. Alternative spelling of initialization
  2. Examples:
    1. “After a few seconds of network initialisation, you have a GPRS link and you can surf the Internet slowly but serviceably.”
      “As soon as the navigation device has been switched on, initialisation of the GPS receiver will begin.”
      “Phase B is the initialisation phase for identification and exchange of machine parameters.”
inition
  1. (obsolete) initiation; beginning
  2. Examples:
    1. “It appeared that students did not understand the roles that their own upbringing and biases played in constructing their def inition.”
      “Role of subchondral bone in the inition and progression of cartilage damage.”
      “The eukayotic translation inition factor 4E controls lettuce susceptibility to the potyvirus Lettuce mosaic virus.”
initialness
  1. The quality of being initial, or coming first.
init
  1. (computing) Abbreviation of initialisation.
initialiser
  1. Alternative spelling of initializer
initializer
  1. One who, or that which, initializes.
initiand
  1. The subject of an initiation
initials
  1. plural of initial
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “These unique steering wheel key rings are made from stainless steel and can be personalized with your name or initials.”
      “It possessed secondary xylem and secondary phloem, which were produced by a bifacial vascular cambium with ray and fusiform initials.”
      “Although the initials in both cases designate motorcycle clubs, MCC groups are the acceptable face of the biking movement.”
initialisations
  1. plural of initialisation
initializations
  1. plural of initialization
initialisers
  1. plural of initialiser
initializers
  1. plural of initializer
initialisms
  1. plural of initialism
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Nevertheless, I consider acronyms and initialisms can be a better choice than the long form names they represent.”
      “So just remember to shave off that last unnecessary word when using acronyms and initialisms, and you'll be fine.”
      “We have a photo gallery, an index of every article published from 1956 to present, and a list of aviation terms, acronyms, initialisms and jargon.”
initiations
  1. plural of initiation
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It also made a great counterpoint to the shamanic stuff I've been immersed in, as initiations so often feature a ritual death and resurrection.”
      “The formal charge was violation of the university policy regarding off-campus parties and initiations.”
      “Young people mark their coming of age in different ceremonies or initiations.”
initiatives
  1. plural of initiative
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The progress of various dust control initiatives can be tracked against these on-site measurements.”
      “The prize was conceived to kick-start private space initiatives and space tourism in particular.”
      “What is lacking are initiatives that sponsor research into the Australian city that can, in turn, impact and benefit the practice of city making.”
initiators
  1. plural of initiator
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Skill-building and low opportunity costs are likely economic reasons for initiators to start a programming project.”
      “As initiators of culture and producers of the societies in which we live, the destiny of modern man is our conscious choice.”
      “Getting the required recognition and accreditation is one of the challenges before the initiators of this movement.”
initiands
  1. plural of initiand
  2. Examples:
    1. “He made observations regarding initiation cicatrices, the fact that the teeth of male initiands were not removed.”
      “During this ambiguous period, the common attributes of initiands are stressed, originating a peculiar social bond that Turner calls communitas.”
      “On physical return the initiands find that they are different, they do not see things the same way they once did.”
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