start up

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)

THESAURUS

start up

bob up, bounce, bound, break forth, break in, break water, bring up, bristle up, broach, buck, buckjump, bundle, bundle off, burst forth, capriole, christen, clear, cock up, curvet, debouch, erupt, establish, extrude, flare up, flash, float, float up, fly up, found, fountain, get going, get in there, get off, get squared away, get under way, give a start, gleam, gush, hippety-hop, hop, hurdle, inaugurate, induct, initiate, install, institute, introduce, irrupt, jet, jump, jump over, jump up, jut out, kick off, launch, leap, leap over, leap up, leapfrog, lift up, make a beginning, make a move, negotiate, overjump, overleap, overskip, poke out, pop up, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, project, protrude, protuberate, put in motion, raise, ring in, rocket, send, send forth, send off, set a course, set afloat, set agoing, set going, set in motion, set on foot, set up, shoot out, shoot up, ski jump, skip, skyrocket, spring, spring up, spurt, stand out, start, start aside, start going, start off, steeplechase, stick out, stick up, surface, turn on, updive, upleap, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upstart, usher in, vault, vault up, warm up

ROGET THESAURUS

start up

Convexity

VB be prominent, project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge, bunch, jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out, stick up, bristle up, start up, cock up, shoot up, swell over, hang over, bend over, beetle, render prominent, raise, emboss, chase, belly out.

Ascent

VB ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise, go up, get up, work one's way up, start up, shoot up, go into orbit, float up, bubble up, aspire, climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade, surmount, shin, shinny, shinney, scale, scale the heights, raise, elevate, go aloft, fly aloft, tower, soar, take off, spring up, pop up, jump up, catapult upwards, explode upwards, hover, spire, plane, swim, float, surge, leap.

Visibility

VB be become visible, appear, open to the view, meet the eye, catch the eye, basset, present itself, show manifest itself, produce itself, discover itself, reveal itself, expose itself, betray itself, stand forth, stand out, materialize, show, arise, peep out, peer out, crop out, start up, spring up, show up, turn up, crop up, glimmer, loom, glare, burst forth, burst upon the view, burst upon the sight, heave in sight, come in sight, come into view, come out, come forth, come forward, see the light of day, break through the clouds, make its appearance, show its face, appear to one's eyes, come upon the stage, float before the eyes, speak for itself, attract the attention, reappear, live in a glass house, expose to view.