Definition: 1. To make something begin. 2. Take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of. 3. Accept young people into society, usually with some rite. 4. Bring up a topic for discussion.
Use 'inititate' in a sentence:
1. The second step can be quite tough to initiate the process.
2. You initiate this variable at the process start-up.
3. Select Run to initiate the test.
4. Onlya victim or his family can initiate a court action.
5. A language teacher should initiate pupils into the elements of grammar.
6. Recently, we examined more than 400 essays on the "laws of life" that teens from two communities had written as part of an educational program initiated by the John Templeton Foundation in Radnor, Pa.
7. Hundreds are initiated into the sect each year.
8. For example, you can create a Task to Initiate a Project.
9. They wanted to initiate a discussion on economics.
10. This term we will initiate a new teaching plan.
11. The system will initiate Purchase Item process.
12. Portlets to initiate the process.
13. This term, we will initiate a new teaching plan.
14. Initiate production abnormal feedback, data statistics and analysis;
15. He has not yet been thoroughly initiated into the mysteries of computers.
16. A New Type of Initiating Explosive Separation System of Solid Missile.
17. Initiate verify and sync from this node.
18. To initiate real-time data collection.
19. People who are talked to have equally positive experiences as those who initiate a conversation.
20. The master initiates the apprentices, but they can sharpen their skills only through their own efforts.
21. It is actually a neurological sensitivity, initiated by hormonal changes.
22. This will not be the best day to initiate change.
23. They can then use the game totem to initiate a new game.
24. Some of the biggest antitrust cases were initiated by complaints taken to the justice department.
25. The creditors decided ot initiate a bankruptcy proceeding.
26. Next the researcher introduced a third option, a third paddle that would initiate a new trial, giving the dolphin the choice of passing on difficult trials.
27. The biochemical era in the study of gastrin was initiated.
28. The data used to initiate the process is displayed.
29. You can initiate policies until the cows come home, but unless they're monitored at a senior level, you won't get results.
30. Do we initiate them?
31. Initiate a new tradition.
32. Once you have that, you can initiate a new request.
33. Initiate the call without knowing about the result (one-way).
34. Initiate physical contact.
35. Visible widgets can also perform or initiate background processing.
36. He is good at initiating projects but rarely follows through with anything.
37. The centrepiece of the plan is the idea of regular referendums, initiated by voters.
38. Queue depth events could be used to initiate configuration changes.
39. Findings from several studies on corporate mergers and acquisitions during the 1970's and 1980's raise questions about why firms initiate and consummate such transactions.
40. It was an initiatory 'mystery religion,' passed from initiate to initiate, like the Eleusinian Mysteries.
41. Initiate data collection by invoking transactions.
42. The booklet initiates us into the problems of living abroad.
43. The Three Challenges China Faces In Foreign Trade and Strategies It May initiate.
44. Develop and initiate a new project in support of vocational service.
45. This will initiate the installation sequence.
46. The trip was initiated by the manager of the community centre.
47. America's jet project was initiated under the tightest possible secrecy.
48. to initiate legal proceedings against sb.
49. He is the master who initiated me into the craft.
50. Chen was an initiate of a Chinese spiritual discipline.
51. In small groups we have a better chance to initiate contact and establish rapport with them.
52. Your jaw muscles activate sympathetically when you see me initiate my reach for the glass, but only when I am reaching to have a drink.
53. He initiated her into the study of other cultures.
54. Many of them had been initiated into drug use at an early age.
55. Lehrer says he has taken all this on board, and despite his inherent shyness, when he's sitting next to strangers on a plane or at a conference, forces himself to initiate conversations.
56. The government has initiated a programme of economic reform.
57. In many societies, young people are formally initiated into their adult roles.
