initiate
US /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.eɪt/
・UK /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.eɪt/
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v.t.Transitive VerbTo cause something to begin
Who initiated the altercation?
v.t.Transitive VerbTo allow someone into a group by a special ceremony
Each culture had a special ritual to initiate boys into manhood.
v.t.Transitive VerbTo cause something to begin or happen.
The new law could initiate significant changes in the industry.
n.NounA person who has been initiated into an organization or activity.
He is a new initiate of the fraternity.
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Why Tap-to-Pay Is Safer Than a Credit Card Swipe | WSJ Tech Behind
- The reader is active because it has power, and can initiate radio communication on its own.
The reader is active because it has power, and can initiate radio communication on its own.
- And the card is passive because it doesn't have power and needs to be near an active source to initiate that communication.
And the card is passive because it doesn't have power and needs to be near an active source to initiate that communication.
How to Get Good at Small Talk, and Even Enjoy It
- When we're in small talk situations, we often initiate with trite, very common phrases.
When we're in small talk situations, we often initiate with trite, very common phrases.
- we often initiate with trite, very common phrases.
we often initiate with trite, very common phrases.
Watch Jim Lehrer Moderate First Full Presidential Debate
- What we've said is to states, we'll give you more money if you initiate reforms. And as
What we've said is to states, we'll give you more money if you initiate reforms. And as
- What we've said is to states, we'll give you more money if you initiate reforms.
What we've said is to states, we'll give you more money if you initiate reforms.
Taiwan Presidential Candidate Hou on China Ties
- So we have to initiate exchanges with mainland scholars, experts and people.
So we have to initiate exchanges with mainland scholars, experts and people.
Dark Hunchback of Notre Dame Theories That'll Freak You Out
- It would also seem that through this contract he initiate with the devil, he has gained supernatural abilities.
It would also seem that through this contract he initiate with the devil, he has gained supernatural abilities.
How Marijuana Completely Changes Your Sleep
- To initiate sleep, your body actually needs to drop its core temperature by around 1.5 °C.
To initiate sleep, your body actually needs to drop its core temperature by around 1.5 °C.
- To initiate sleep, your body actually needs to drop its core temperature by around 1.5 degrees Celsius,
To initiate sleep, your body actually needs to drop its core temperature by around 1.5 degrees Celsius,
How to Master Networking in 14 Minutes
- Because learning how to initiate relationships is one thing, but what's gonna pay infinitely more dividends is learning how to nurture the right relationships.
Because learning how to initiate relationships is one thing, but what's gonna pay infinitely more dividends is learning how to nurture the right relationships.
- And so I want you to take on the mental model of one of my favorite Naval quotes, which is, "Play long-term games with long-term people." Because learning how to initiate relationships is one thing,
And so I want you to take on the mental model of one of my favorite Naval quotes, which is, "Play long-term games with long-term people." Because learning how to initiate relationships is one thing,
7 Stages Of A Toxic Relationship, Not Real Love
- By making you initiate the breakup, they avoid responsibility and get to play the victim, claiming they were abandoned.
By making you initiate the breakup, they avoid responsibility and get to play the victim, claiming they were abandoned.
- By making you initiate the breakup, they avoid responsibility and get to play the victim, claiming they were abandoned.
By making you initiate the breakup, they avoid responsibility and get to play the victim, claiming they were abandoned.
How Knee Steering can Work with Carving
- So knee steering, which I'll link some videos down below, is the idea, or not the idea, the movement where you make every edge change, you initiate every edge change with the front ankle, knee and hip and then you follow with the back ankle, knee and hip.
So knee steering, which I'll link some videos down below, is the idea, or not the idea, the movement where you make every edge change, you initiate every edge change with the front ankle, knee and hip and then you follow with the back ankle, knee and hip.
- If I'm going to come around, if I get a bit of space, you'll let these skiers go past, they're going past, no they're not, so coming through the heels I turn and I just pass my front knee and hip over the board followed by the back as I come from the heels, front knee and hips followed by the back and what that allows me to do if I maintain pressure through my back foot, through my back heel at the end of the turn I can keep the board steering up the slope, I can maintain grip but at the same time I'm simultaneously crossing my front knee and hip over the board to initiate the next edge change and then as soon as that shin starts pressing down into the boot I engage this top part of the board here, I'm starting to get grip on the toe side and I can just release that back knee and hip over the board and the board just slots into that toe side groove that I've created.
If I'm going to come around, if I get a bit of space, you'll let these skiers go past, they're going past, no they're not, so coming through the heels I turn and I just pass my front knee and hip over the board followed by the back as I come from the heels, front knee and hips followed by the back and what that allows me to do if I maintain pressure through my back foot, through my back heel at the end of the turn I can keep the board steering up the slope, I can maintain grip but at the same time I'm simultaneously crossing my front knee and hip over the board to initiate the next edge change and then as soon as that shin starts pressing down into the boot I engage this top part of the board here, I'm starting to get grip on the toe side and I can just release that back knee and hip over the board and the board just slots into that toe side groove that I've created.
If Introverts Were Completely Honest on a First Date
- If you don't initiate a kiss, there won't be one.
If you don't initiate a kiss, there won't be one.
- If you don't initiate a kiss, there won't be one.
If you don't initiate a kiss, there won't be one.