startupとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ˈstɑɹtˌʌp/, [ˈstɑɹɾˌʌp]

語源 1

Deverbal from start up.

別の表記

• start-up

名詞

startup (countable and uncountable, plural startups)

1. The act or process of starting a process or machine.

   Antonym: shutdown

2. A new company or organization or business venture designed for rapid growth.
   • 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     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 foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.

3. (computing, often capitalized) A folder (especially in Windows), containing shortcuts of applications or programs that start up automatically after a user signs in.

   Coordinate term: autostart

   • 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 and paste the shortcut to the app from the file location to the Startup folder.

派生語

参考

語源 2

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

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈstɑːtəp/

名詞

startup (plural startups)

1. (obsolete, dialect, chiefly in the plural) 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.

   • 1592, Robert Greene, A Quip for an Upstart Courtier‎, London: John Wolfe:

     But Hob and Iohn of the countrey they stept in churlishly, in their high startvps […]

   • 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 Blackwell, 1932, p. 564,

     When not a Shepheard any thing that could,

     But greaz’d his start-ups blacke as Autumns Sloe,

2. (obsolete, dialect, chiefly in the plural) A kind of gaiter or legging.
3. (obsolete) One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     That young start-up hath all the glory of my overthrow: if I can cross him any way, I bless myself every way.

参照

• “startup, n1.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, January 2015.

アナグラム

• upstart

動詞

start up (third-person singular simple present starts up, present participle starting up, simple past and past participle started up)

1. (intransitive) To rise suddenly.

   He started up when he heard the scream.

2. (transitive) To commence the operation of; to activate; to launch.

   The four of them started up a law practice.

3. (intransitive) To begin to operate.

   The engine started up right away.

4. (intransitive, colloquial) To begin.

   The band started up playing.

5. (intransitive) To begin to make a sound

   First a solitary blackbird started up, but soon the whole forest was alive with birdsong.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:start up.

派生語

参考

アナグラム

• upstart

名詞

start-up (countable and uncountable, plural start-ups)

1. Alternative spelling of startup.
   • 2026 July 22, Richard Wilcock, “Open Access: only possible for the giants?”, in RAIL, number 1066, page 23:

     […] a new peak-time bus service from Stroud to London was announced by a start-up company with the stated aim of combatting the lack of affordable travel options in the area.

アナグラム

• upstart