Opening
['əʊp(ə)nɪŋ] or ['opənɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of opening something; 'the ray of light revealed his cautious opening of the door'.
(noun.) becoming open or being made open; 'the opening of his arms was the sign I was waiting for'.
(noun.) a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess; 'he memorized all the important chess openings'.
(noun.) a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made; 'they left a small opening for the cat at the bottom of the door'.
(noun.) the initial part of the introduction; 'the opening established the basic theme'.
(noun.) the first performance (as of a theatrical production); 'the opening received good critical reviews'.
(noun.) a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise.
(noun.) an open or empty space in or between things; 'there was a small opening between the trees'; 'the explosion made a gap in the wall'.
(noun.) opportunity especially for employment or promotion; 'there is an opening in the sales department'.
(adj.) first or beginning; 'the memorable opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth'; 'the play's opening scene' .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Open
(n.) The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech.
(n.) A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole.
(n.) Hence: A vacant place; an opportunity; as, an opening for business.
(n.) A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; as, oak openings.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Aperture, hole, orifice, perforation, breach, chasm, cleft, gap, fissure, rent, rift, flaw.[2]. Beginning, commencement.[3]. Opportunity, chance.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Aperture, gap, opportunity, space, commencement, initiation, start,inauguration, hole, fissure, chink, beginning
ANT:Occlusion, obstruction, stopgap, unreasonableness, contretemps,inopportuneness, enclosure, termination, close, end, conclusion
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Examples
- His right extended to the back-water up the ravine opening into the Cumberland south of the village. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I don't even blame you--I pity you for opening your heart to a hopeless affection. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Opening the door, he spoke a few words quickly but quietly to two females who ran to meet him in the passage. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- At his feet an opening looked out upon a green sward, and at a little distance beyond was the dense wall of jungle and forest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He took a neat little leather case out of a drawer, and opening it he exhibited a number of shining instruments. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Walk in, Mr. Franklin, he said, opening the door behind him, with his quaint old-fashioned bow. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Beams crossed the opening down into the main floor where the hay-carts drove in when the hay was hauled in to be pitched up. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He ran his thumbnail around the edge of the box and, opening the lid, handed them to Pablo who took half a dozen. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The opening for putting in the ice, shown just under the pulley in the cut, has two doors with a space between; each door a foot thick. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- We have given an epitome of the development of the submarine vessel up to the opening of the twentieth century. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These were the opening acts of an active and aggressive career. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was a machine mounted on two wheels, that had a seed box in the bottom of which was a series of holes opening into a corresponding number of metal tubes or funnels. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was considered very pleasant reading, but I never read more of it myself than the sentence on which I chanced to light on opening the book. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- With the opening of this line the success of the railroad as a practical means of conveyance became assured. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where the little opening for the ventilator is. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The system of filling adopted consists of a culvert in each side wall feeding laterals from which are openings upward into the lock chamber. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Attach a small toy bell to a glass rod (Fig. 166) by means of a rubber tube and pass the rod through one of two openings in a rubber cork. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Avoid all openings or rents in the paper. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The effect of screening the objects from the eye at short intervals is produced by looking with one eye through the openings at the image of the disc, reflected from a mirror. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The back of the cave was so lost in dense shadow that I could not distinguish whether there were openings into other apartments or not. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- After the steam has spent itself in turning the turbine, it condenses into water and makes its escape through openings in an inclosing case. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The towers are each pierced by two archways, 31? feet wide, and 120? feet high, through which openings passes the floor of the bridge at the height of 118 feet above high water mark. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The water which flows into the turbine case causes rotation of the wheel, escapes from the case through openings, and flows into the tail water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The openings at the gables perform an important part in the ventilation by admitting all the air that can sweep over the top sawdust. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The front of the dam is the arc of a circle 740 feet long with fourteen openings which, when the gates are raised to the full height, permit a discharge of 140,000 cubic feet per second. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These openings are visible on all gas stoves, and should be kept clean and free of clogging, in order to insure complete combustion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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