self-starter

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A person who shows initiative and resourcefulness.
2. isim A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.

   “The grey Bentley convertible, the 1933 4½-litre with the Amherst-Villiers supercharger, had been brought round a few minutes earlier from the garage where he kept it and the engine had kicked directly he pressed the self-starter.”

3. isim An engine so equipped, or the vehicle that it powers.

   “His ancient Cadillac was one of the first self-starters.”