| onset | Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage | en |
| onset | To assault; to set upon | en |
| onset | the beginning or early stages; "the onset of pneumonia | en |
| onset | To set about; to begin | en |
| onset | A setting about; a beginning | en |
| onset | A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army | en |
| onset | The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus | en |
| onset | The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent | en |
| onset | The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak | en |
| onset | The part of the syllable that precedes the vowel, for example, strum | en |
| onset | The initial consonant sound or sounds that come before the vowel in a syllable; part of the onset rime unit Examples: |f| is the onset in the word 'fine'; |gr| is the onset in the word 'green' | en |
| onset | The initial consonant sound or sounds that come before the vowel in a syllable; part of the onset rime unit Examples: |gr| is the onset in the word 'green' | en |
| onset | (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons); "the attack began at dawn" | en |
| onset | the beginning or early stages; "the onset of pneumonia" | en |
| onset | The onset of something is the beginning of it, used especially to refer to something unpleasant. Most of the passes have been closed with the onset of winter = start. the beginning of something, especially something bad | en |
| onset | attack; beginning isim | en |
| onset | all of the sounds in a word that came before the first vowel | en |
| onset | The design of a head in which the leading edge of the blade or face is forward of the leading edge of the hosel | en |
| onset | The initial consonant sound or sounds that come before the vowel in a syllable; part of the onset rime unit Examples: |f| is the onset in the word ´fine´; |gr| is the onset in the word ´green´ | en |
| onset | Defines the time of life Alzheimer's disease sets in, such as "early onset", or "late onset" | en |
| onset | The time of appearance of the first symptoms of a condition, prior to seeking diagnosis | en |
| onsets | plural of onset | en |