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What is the verb for initiative?

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initiate
  1. (transitive) To begin; to start.
  2. To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
  3. To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
  4. (intransitive) To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Authorities would initiate an investigation into the activities of the organization.”
      “Tom's wife would help to initiate him into a colorful cult that believed in deities from outer space.”
      “English teacher John Keating would initiate his students into a mesmerizing world of individuality.”
initialize
  1. To assign initial values to something
  2. (computing) To assign an initial value to a variable
  3. (computing) To format a storage medium prior to use
  4. (computing) To prepare any hardware (such as a printer or scanner) for use
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “There is no reason to initialize the joystick or CD-ROM if you are not going to use them.”
      “The second issue was a recent case where I was using a 925 board to build a media center box and the driver disk refused to initialize.”
      “You should initialize the garbler at the start of your program using the function set garbler that is also provided.”
initialise
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of initialize.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Our fancy supplies us, and there not being many, we will just initialise them all, and let he whom the cap fits put it on.”
      “When a new GPS receiver is used for the first time, it needs a few minutes to initialise.”
      “Note: It can take up to 20 minutes to initialise the integrated GPS receiver for the first time.”
initial
  1. (transitive) to sign one's initial(s), as an abbreviated signature
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I asked my favorite singer to initial a copy of his album that I owned.”
      “The two nations would initial a new defense cooperation agreement.”
init
  1. (computing) Abbreviation of initialize.
inited
  1. simple past tense and past participle of init
  2. (computing) Abbreviation of initialized.
initialises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of initialise
  2. Synonyms:
initializes
initiates
initiateth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of initiate
initialized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of initialize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The electrical switches are initialized by an adjustable system, according to the random position of the valve stem when it is opened or closed.”
      “The disc may be initialized without a SSA for real-time video and audio recording and use of a cartridge.”
      “Whenever he tried to connect to the internet, he got an error message stating that the modem could not be initialized.”
initialised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of initialise
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The qualifier const may be prefixed to any declaration, and specifies that the value to which the data object is initialised cannot subsequently be changed.”
inits
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of init
  2. Examples:
    1. “It may even prove triumphant, although there remains a potential iceberg lurking inits path in time for the April 1912 disaster's 100th anniversary.”
      “Yet it is impossible to imagine Europe producing theblues or the Beats, the Harlem Renaissance or the Factory. What distinguished the United States is both simple and, inits ramifications, maddeningly, insolubly complex.”
      “The strength of a team lies inits diversity.”
initiated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of initiate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It was a systematic effort, initiated by the Umayyids, but specially developed under the Abbasids, who built Baghdad.”
      “Conduct a plan walk-through when a new program is initiated, like a challenge course, or as a new full-time staff member is hired.”
      “Otherwise, the process will not be initiated or will be aborted prematurely.”
initialed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of initial
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Also there were two paragraphs edited out with XXX's over them which were not initialed by either of us.”
      “Raul Castro initialed a draft treaty with the Soviet Defense Minister that governed the deployment of Soviet forces to Cuba.”
      “Darcy initialed the routing slip in the proper place and tossed the folder into his outbox.”
initialled
  1. (Britain) simple past tense and past participle of initial
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Wondering whether he should have held the record company more to ransom, he initialled and signed both copies and retained one for himself.”
      “The pharmacist noticed the prescription for the dose had been altered from 50 to 100 microgrammes, and the alteration had not been initialled.”
      “They both initialled the proposal form and they both signed the cheques for the premiums.”
initialising
initializing
  1. present participle of initialize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Patients will experience prompt relief of lesions within one to two days of initializing treatment with dapsone or sulfapyridine.”
      “This method provides the ServletConfig object for initializing the servlet's parameters.”
      “During playback, artificial headers are injected as appropriate for initializing the decoder for playback of the complex asset.”
initiating
  1. present participle of initiate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The working definition of insomnia is a persistent difficulty in initiating and maintaining sleep.”
      “It is in such registries that the documents initiating proceedings are presented for filing.”
      “After initiating brake actuation, the aircraft yawed to the right, and he ceased braking action to analyze the situation.”
initialing
initialling
initing
  1. present participle of init
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