Starting in a sentence as a noun

I think a lot of this is just old-timers starting to see the same **** over and again.

So I stood up and said "please escort me out the door, starting immediately I am resigning.

If at this point, Putin sounds reasonable and is starting to look like the better of two devils, we're in deep ****.

You're never going to build a rocket to the moon by starting in your backyard with some sheet metal - your lifespan isn't long enough if you take that approach.

You pretty much have to resign yourself to the fact that you'll work at 50% of the salary as your peers or have to make your own future by starting your own companies and projects.

Starting in a sentence as an adjective

The 5 seconds you make eye contact with someone and say hi to them are vital for gathering your senses, and starting this interaction a new. If you didn't say "hi, how are you", ******* clients would rub off on you and you would smear that bad vibe on all subsequent clients.

The sheer amount of fakeness delivered through ads and ******** mass media has made us very interested in "real" things, in hanging out with our friends, in starting families.

Before starting you must consult with at least a dozen people who know very little about Android and succinctly describe the capabilities of the smartphone and what sorts of applications are even possible.

Population in the developing world is growing, but metrics for quality of life are improving --- we're eradicating disease, reducing malnutrition, enrolling students, and starting to enable bottom-up markets.

But, since you only made it through the few paragraphs of the paper, you missed an intuitive explanation that's right there on that page from an paper reproduced by that blog post:Stated informally, the k-means procedure consists of simply starting with k groups each of which consists of a single random point, and thereafter adding each new point to the group whose mean the new point is nearest.

Starting definitions

noun

a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning); "he got his start because one of the regular pitchers was in the hospital"; "his starting meant that the coach thought he was one of their best linemen"

See also: start

adjective

(especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear; "with eyes starting from their sockets"

adjective

appropriate to the beginning or start of an event; "the starting point"; "hands in the starting position"