Beginning vs. Initial

Beginningnoun

(uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.

Beginningnoun

That which is begun; a rudiment or element.

Beginningnoun

That which begins or originates something; the first cause.

Beginningnoun

The initial portion of some extended thing.

Beginningverb

present participle of begin

Beginningadjective

(informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.

Beginningnoun

The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.

Beginningnoun

That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.

Beginningnoun

That which is begun; a rudiment or element.

Beginningnoun

Enterprise.

Beginningnoun

the event consisting of the start of something;

Beginningnoun

the time at which something is supposed to begin;

Beginningnoun

the first part or section of something;

Beginningnoun

the place where something begins, where it springs into being;

Beginningnoun

the act of starting something;

Beginningadjective

serving to begin;

Beginningnoun

the point in time or space at which something begins

Beginningnoun

the first part or earliest stage of something

Beginningnoun

the background or origins of a person or organization

Initialadjective

Chronologically first, early; of or pertaining to the beginning, cause or origin.

Initialadjective

Spatially first, placed at the beginning, in the first position; especially said of the first letter of a word.

Initialnoun

The first letter of a word or a name.

Initialnoun

In plural, the first letter of each word of a person's full name considered as a unit.

Initialnoun

A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.

Initialnoun

(phonology) onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.

Initialverb

(transitive) To sign one's initial(s), as an abbreviated signature.

Initialadjective

Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.

Initialadjective

Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name.

Initialnoun

The first letter of a word or a name.

Initialverb

To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials.

Initialnoun

the first letter of a word (especially a person's name);

Initialverb

mark with one's initials

Initialadjective

occurring at the beginning;

Initial

In a written or published work, an initial or drop cap is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. The word is derived from the Latin initialis, which means standing at the beginning.