starters

noun

1. 1

   Someone who starts something.

   “a starter on a journey”

2. 2

   Something that starts something.

   “It's small, but it's a good starter house.”

3. 3

   The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.

4. 4

   (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.

5. 5

   A dog that rouses game.

6. 6

   A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.

7. 7

   A railway signal controlling the starting of trains from a station or some other location, more fully called a starter signal or starting signal.