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(assault) noun
advance, aggression, assailment, attack, barrage, blitzkrieg, bombardment, charge, dragonnade, encounter, foray, forced entrance, fusillade, incursion, intrusion, invasion, maraud, offense, offensive, onrush, onslaught, raid, seizure, siege, storm, strike, thrust
II
(commencement) noun
aurora, beginning, birth, coming, dawn, embarkation, entrance, establishment, exordium, fashioning, first appearance, first move, first step, forging, forming, foundation, genesis, inauguration, inception, inchoation, incipience, incunabula, infancy, initiation, introduction, launching, making, oncoming, opening, origin, origination, outbreak, outset, rise, source, start, starting point, threshold
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index
assault, birth (beginning), genesis, inception, nascency, origin (source), origination, outset, start, threshold (commencement)
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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Onset — may refer to: Onset (audio), the beginning of a musical note or sound Interonset interval, a term in music Syllable onset, a term in phonetics and phonology Onset, Massachusetts, village in the United States Onset Island (Massachusetts), a small… … Wikipedia
Onset — On set , n. [On + set.] 1. A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army. Milton. [1913 Webster] The onset and retire Of both your armies. Shak. [1913 Webster] Who on that day the word of onset… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Onset — Onset, MA U.S. Census Designated Place in Massachusetts Population (2000): 1292 Housing Units (2000): 910 Land area (2000): 1.083253 sq. miles (2.805612 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.215025 sq. miles (0.556913 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.298278… … StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places
Onset, MA — U.S. Census Designated Place in Massachusetts Population (2000): 1292 Housing Units (2000): 910 Land area (2000): 1.083253 sq. miles (2.805612 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.215025 sq. miles (0.556913 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.298278 sq. miles… … StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places
Onset — On set , v. t. 1. To assault; to set upon. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. To set about; to begin. [Obs.] Carew. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
onset — [ɔnsɛt] n. m. ÉTYM. V. 1960; mot angl., de on « sur » et to set « mettre ». ❖ ♦ Anglic. Techn. (imprim.). Procédé d impression sans contact, qui utilise les phénomènes électrostatiques. ⇒ Offset … Encyclopédie Universelle
onset — (n.) 1530s, attack, assault, from ON (Cf. on) + SET (Cf. set) (n.); Cf. to set (something) on (someone). Weaker sense of beginning, start first recorded 1560s. Figurative use in reference to a calamity, disease, etc. is from 1580s … Etymology dictionary
onset — *attack, assault, onslaught Analogous words: aggression, offensive, offense, *attack: storming, bombarding, assailing (see ATTACK vb): invasion, raid, incursion … New Dictionary of Synonyms
onset — [n] beginning; attack access, aggression, assailment, assault, birth, charge, commencement, dawn, dawning, encounter, inception, incipience, kickoff*, offense, offensive, onfall, onrush, onslaught, opening, origin, outbreak, outset, outstart,… … New thesaurus
onset — ► NOUN 1) the beginning of something, especially something unpleasant. 2) archaic a military attack … English terms dictionary