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initial Adjective

— (span style="color:green"usually before the noun/span) The initial period, stages, etc. come near the beginning. They send most workers to the US after an initial training period of three months. With these cars, the initial cost is high, but you save money in the long run. My initial reaction when I saw the bear was to run and hide.

initial Noun

— An initial is the first letter of a name. He found a bag with the initials D.B.R. His name is Daniel Jr., His initial is D.J.

initial Verb

— If you initial something, you write the first letter of each of your names on it (or sometimes just your first and last name). Can you initial this form here, please?

initial

— adjective occurring at the beginning took the initial step toward reconciliation — noun the first letter of a word (especially a person's name) he refused to put the initials FRS after his name — verb mark with one's initials

Synonyms initial synonyms

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initial English » English

first primary beginning original preliminary introductory initiatory incipient elementary basic starting pristine primordial primal preparatory opening initial letter inceptive early at the beginning underwrite ultimate start signature sign real principal prime prefatory onset near int inaugural first letter endorse close chief actual zero validate top siglum shorthand name salutatory rudimentary propaedeutic prior primitive primeval prelusive

Topics initial topics

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States Time Relative time Order, sequence

First
Grammar Name

Name of a person

Conjugation initial conjugation

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initial · verb

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Simple sentences

The initial symptoms of the disease are fever and sore throat.
In the development of Lojban, efforts were consistently made since the initial phase to keep the language culturally neutral.

Movie subtitles

My initial belief was correct.
If we remove the article from the digital site, she'll accept the initial offer.
The camera negative misses the initial credits and the intertitles. These were reconstructed using the censorship cards.
So now that he's over the initial shock, I can step in and close the deal.
The Marshal thought the initial strike would be enough.
I must say you've shown the most commendable delicacy in just tattooing the initial, not printing the names, addresses and telephone numbers.
I didn't even know what my middle initial stood for.
She remembered putting her initial under my signature.
And once the initial delusion was established. her present condition was almost inevitable.
The Japanese had conquered the island chain to Guadalcanal and we had to start the long climb back despite the initial lack of men and materiel.
Consequently, initial contact is of vital importance.
Oh, balloons. The preliminary reports on the use of balloons for initial jumps are generally favourable.
The initial phase is an encircling manoeuvre, thus!
Our first target will be the initial landing place outside L.A.
Presumably, this is an inside joke, put in by a music editor some years later, to replace the music used for the initial release of the film.
In fact, I'm just getting over my initial surprise on discovering what you are.
I must say you've shown the most commendable delicacy in just tattooing the initial, not printing the names, addresses and telephone numbers. Open!
Whether the 'S' stands for his first or last initial remains to be determined by a process of elimination.
Well, there must be ten thousand doctors in London with 'S' for a first or last initial.
One-forty-four-A, initial is O for Oscar.
So if you just go and stand under your initial. you'll be claimed like a piece of luggage at an airport.
As a protective measure, I wrote my bank. changing my signature, adding my middle initial. which for some years I had not used.
Call on initial.
You'll be glad to know. that my initial tests didn't turn up anything.
Beechcroft, chapter three- that's the one on initial phenomena of intense concentration.
Why, with an initial investment of a quarter of a million dollars. i could take this plastics thing. excuse me, mr.
Here's your initial heading, John.
However, in their initial testimony you indicated.
The initial training's important!
It may interest you to know that since the initial use of corbomite more than two of our centuries ago, no attacking vessel has survived the attempt.
I shall supervise the initial stages suspicion must not be aroused!
Under dispute between the two parties since initial contact.
I neglected, in my initial run-through, to correlate the possible contributions by offspring.
Surname first, Christian name, and initial.
It should take you a long way, indeed, provided, of course, that you get those initial breaks.
The scientists who made the initial investigation reported the men were vicious and arrogant.
INITIAL REPORT.
His calculations on initial stresses were invaluable to this project.

News and current affairs

France, too, has become uncompetitive, owing to the cheap credit brought by the euro in its initial years.
Chaos theory in mathematics explains such dependency on remote and seemingly trivial initial conditions, and explains why even the extrapolation of apparently precise planetary motion becomes impossible when taken far enough into the future.
Such a break is the only way to prevent over-speculation in the RMB, although de-pegging may cause some initial devaluation under current market conditions.
Building and solidifying these institutions, however, takes time. Using an initial period of growth to experiment and innovate on these fronts can pay high dividends later on.
The recent indications of some initial dialogue between China and India, and between China and Japan, suggest that China also realizes that escalating old grievances is not in its interest.
Stock prices did, of course, decrease as a result of the Asian panic and its financial ramifications, but America's stock markets have since then recouped all of their initial losses and even moved on to new record highs.
Initial warning signs of a pandemic are most likely to appear in the developing world, but detection nodes should be positioned in every country, with the least possible expense.
Indeed, just as our initial research uncovered no evidence of relative Muslim egalitarianism, we discovered no major difference between preference for sons among Christians and Muslims.
The reason is clear: by taking time to set the stage for liberalization, governments hoped to limit the initial spike in price inflation, thereby avoiding a wage-price spiral and curbing capital flight.
That decision was intended to allow the Petersen Group to service the debts to banks, and to Repsol itself, that it incurred with its share purchase, for which it made no initial payment.
In hindsight, these exchange-rate swings mirrored the initial collapse and subsequent rebound in global trade, helping to mitigate the recession.
Where, in a purely deductive argument, was there room for nature's surprises, for mechanisms that look nothing like what we imagine in our initial assumptions?
After an initial rally, Brazilian interest rates have settled at levels incompatible with long-term solvency.
Indeed, neither the Chicago School nor the MIT School say that market outcomes are fair, because actual market outcomes depend on the initial distribution of resources.
Using an initial period of growth to experiment and innovate on these fronts can pay high dividends later on.
But politicians may need two steps: an initial failure to agree, and then a quick deal in response to the resulting financial-market convulsions.
In fact, the absence of a specific ideology was essential to the Arab Spring's initial success in Egypt and Tunisia, for it allowed a large number of young activists to forge loose alliances.
The money needed to launch an LEU bank is in place, thanks primarily to a non-governmental organization - the Nuclear Threat Initiative - and initial funding from Warren Buffett.
Likewise, launching initial public offerings on European stock exchanges has strengthened Russian corporations' governance, social responsibility, and treatment of minority shareholders.
After China's government became aware that independent grassroots movements could convince ordinary Chinese where government propaganda had failed, it lifted its initial ban on reporting on Tibet.
When a stubborn teenager went up against the mighty lottery authority with its army of auditors and inspectors and initial alibis, this individual, not the system, was the clear winner of the public's admiration.
When their initial gathering ends, they will host their counterparts from across the region, including US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The United Nations Environment Program will certainly make this a focus of its post-Games report, building on the initial one issued in 2007.

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