• Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992)
• take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let''s get down to work now"
• set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "Begin a new chapter in your life"
• Begin to speak or say; "Now listen, friends," he began
• Begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language; "She began Russian at an early age"; "We started French in fourth grade"
• achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative; "This economic measure doesn''t even Begin to deal with the problem of inflation"; "You cannot even Begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war"
• Begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object; "Begin a cigar"; "She started the soup while it was still hot"; "We started physics in 10th grade"
• have a Beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense; "The DMZ Begins right over the hill"; "The second movement Begins after the Allegro"; "Prices for these homes start at $250,000"
• have a Beginning characterized in some specified way; "The novel Begins with a murder"; "My property Begins with the three maple trees"; "Her day Begins with a work-out"; "The semester Begins with a convocation ceremony"
• have a Beginning, of a temporal event; "WWII began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland"; "The company''s Asia tour Begins next month"
• be the first item or point, constitute the Beginning or start, come first in a series; "The number ''one'' Begins the sequence"; "A terrible murder Begins the novel"; "The convocation ceremoney officially Begins the semester"

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