Starter
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Someone who starts something. # The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag # A starting pitcher. Something that starts something. # An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine # A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp # A yeast culture used to start a fermentation process The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish. A player in the starting lineup
Example sentence: I don't want to be one of those guys where I go there and wait a long time before I become a starter.
Crank
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To turn a crank.To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably.To produce or present a desired object.To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A bent piece of an axle, or shaft, or an arm attached at right angles to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a circular action to a wheel or other mechanical device and create power; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.An ill-tempered or nasty personmethamphetamine.A person who is considered strange to others. They may do strange things, or be a crank by nature.A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.A ship which, because of insufficient or poorly stowed ballast or cargo, is in danger of overturning
Example sentence: I was a staff songwriter for Combine Music Publishing in Nashville for seven years. I'd sit around with a groups of friends with a Yamaha piano and a tape recorder and crank out songs.