starter

1. Someone who starts, or who starts something.

2. Someone who starts, or who starts something.

3. (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.Examples: "Goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga wasn’t a starter at Fulham."

4. (historical, British) A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.Britishhistorical

5. (rail transport) A railway signal controlling the starting of trains from a station or some other location, more fully called a starter signal or starting signal.Examples: "The colour-light signals admitting directly to the platforms and the inner starters (for short-length departures well up the platforms) are two-aspect, while those immediately beyond them are three-aspect, but elsewhere four-aspect signals have been installed in association with route indicators."