Meaning of began in English

(Definition of began from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of began

began
Coming out of research into such nonlinear systems as the weather, the structural analogies it suggested began to be applied to many different fields.
The composer drafted his own libretto in 1887 and began the music in 1890.
The first tactical error was made before the operation began.
Jean and his family began the 1993-4 growing season quite methodically.
The differential income levels across income-status groups over a variety of characteristics were first widened but began to converge in a catch-up phase of growth.
As was always the case, he began his repor t after receiving a prompt from the chair.
The second way in which cultural influences spread began with the army.
During the hot summer months, they began pouring at 4am and finished by 10am.
The participants began the moving window practice trial with an asterisk on the screen.
Thus began the five years during which there was nothing to eat.
Gradually, however things in the shrine began to change.
Each experimental trial began with a 1500-ms presentation of a fixation mark (*) that was centered in the middle of the screen.
One group of participants began the intervention program in the spring semester of 1998, another in spring 1999, and a third in fall 1999.
He began to think about a new strategy for party-building at this time, one more conventional than the others.
He clearly began by mobilising his former clients.
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Translations of began

in Chinese (Traditional)
(begin 的過去式)…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(begin 的过去式)…
in Spanish
pasado simple de "begin"…
in Portuguese
passado de "begin"…
in more languages
in Japanese
in Turkish
in Polish
in Catalan
in Korean
in Italian
“begin” の過去形…
başlamak' fiilinin geçmiş zaman hali…
passat de “begin”…
“begin”의 과거형…
passato semplice di “begin”…
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