onset
Etymology Pronunciation
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Etymology Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: /ˈɒnˌsɛt/
- (America, Midland US, US South) IPA: /ˈɔnˌsɛt/
- (Northern US, or, cot-caught) IPA: /ˈɑnˌsɛt/
onset (plural onsets)
- (archaic) An attack; an assault especially of an army.
- Synonyms: storming
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene i]:
- Heralds, from off our towers, we might behold
From first to last, the onset and retire
Of both your armies
- 1800, William Wordsworth, Six thousand Veterans:
- Who on that day the word of onset gave.
- 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:
- And Peter's tired army cheered, and the newcomers roared, and the enemy squealed and gibbered till the wood re-echoed with the din of that onset.
- (medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
- the onset of schizophrenia
- (phonology) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
- (acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.
- A setting about; a beginning.
- Synonyms: start, beginning, Thesaurus:beginning
- the onset of puberty
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Delays”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC ↗:
- There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
- (obsolete) Anything added, such as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
- c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene i]:
- And will with deeds requite thy gentleness:
And, for an onset, Titus, to advance
Thy name and honourable family,
Lavinia will I make my empress.
- French: assaut, attaque
- German: Angriff, Ansturm, Anschlag
- Portuguese: investida
- Russian: ата́ка
- Spanish: arremetida
- French: début, apparition
- German: Anzeichen
- Portuguese: anábase
- Spanish: aparición
- French: attaque
- German: Silbenansatz, Silbenanfang, Silbenanlaut
- Italian: attacco
- Portuguese: ataque
- Russian: при́ступ
- Spanish: ataque
- French: déclenchement, début
onset (onsets, present participle onsetting; simple past and past participle onset)
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