startup

The act or process of starting a process or machine.

Noun computing, engineering

The act or process of starting a process or machine.
Antonyms: shutdown
A new company or organization or business venture designed for rapid growth.
- Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their...
A folder (especially in Windows), containing shortcuts of applications or programs that start up automatically after a user signs in.
- Add an app to run automatically at startup in Windows 10, Microsoft Support 3. With the file location open, press the Windows logo key + R, type shell:startup, then select OK. This opens the Startup folder. / 4. Copy...
Coordinate Terms: autostart

Etymology tree English start updeverb. English startup Deverbal from start up.

A kind of high-low or thigh-high boot worn by rustic people.
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, London: Hugh Singleton, “Februarie,” Glosse, Galage) a startuppe or clownish shoe.
- But Hob and Iohn of the countrey they stept in churlishly, in their high startvps […] - 1592, Robert Greene, A Quip for an Upstart Courtier, London: John Wolfe:
- 1619, Michael Drayton, “The Ninth Eglogue” in Pastorals. Contayning Eglogves, With the Man in the Moone, London: John Smethwicke, reproduced in J. William Hebel (ed.), The Works of Michael Drayton, Oxford: Basil...
A kind of gaiter or legging.
One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart.
- That young start-up hath all the glory of my overthrow: if I can cross him any way, I bless myself every way. - 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares...

From start + up, describing a boot that starts up (reaches up) to the middle of the leg.