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Opening   /ˈoʊpənɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Open  v. t.  (past & past part. opened; pres. part. opening)  
1.
To make or set open; to render free of access; to unclose; to unbar; to unlock; to remove any fastening or covering from; as, to open a door; to open a box; to open a room; to open a letter. "And all the windows of my heart I open to the day."
2.
To spread; to expand; as, to open the hand.
3.
To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain. "The king opened himself to some of his council, that he was sorry for the earl's death." "Unto thee have I opened my cause." "While he opened to us the Scriptures."
4.
To make known; to discover; also, to render available or accessible for settlements, trade, etc. "The English did adventure far for to open the North parts of America."
5.
To enter upon; to begin; as, to open a discussion; to open fire upon an enemy; to open trade, or correspondence; to open an investigation; to open a case in court, or a meeting.
6.
To loosen or make less compact; as, to open matted cotton by separating the fibers.
To open one's mouth, to speak.
To open up, to lay open; to discover; to disclose. "Poetry that had opened up so many delightful views into the character and condition of our "bold peasantry, their country's pride.""


Open  v. i.  
1.
To unclose; to form a hole, breach, or gap; to be unclosed; to be parted. "The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram."
2.
To expand; to spread out; to be disclosed; as, the harbor opened to our view.
3.
To begin; to commence; as, the stock opened at par; the battery opened upon the enemy.
4.
(Sporting) To bark on scent or view of the game.


noun
Opening  n.  
1.
The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech. "The opening of your glory was like that of light."
2.
A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole. "We saw him at the opening of his tent."
3.
Hence: An opportunity; as, an opening for business. (Colloq.)
4.
Hence: A vacant place; a job which does not have a current occupant; as, they are now interviewing candidates for the two openings in the department.
5.
A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; a clearing; as, oak openings. (U.S.)





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"Opening" Quotes from Famous Books



... was before him with his formidable philosophic hammer; but Nietzsche himself was by temperament too spiritual, too cold, too aloof from the common instincts of humanity to do more than hew out an opening through the gloomy thickets of the ascetic forest. He was himself too entirely intellectual, too high and icy and austere and imaginative ever to bring the actual feet of the dancers, and the lutes and flutes of the wanton singers into the ...
— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys
... This was the new opening of conversation. Daisy hesitated a little what to answer; not for want of confidence, for there was something about the fine old woman that ...
— Melbourne House, Volume 1 • Susan Warner
... Abbassid Caliphate, white, representing the Ummayyad Caliphate, and green, representing the Fatimid Caliphate; a red isosceles triangle on the hoist side, representing the Great Arab Revolt of 1916, and bearing a small white seven-pointed star symbolizing the seven verses of the opening Sura (Al-Fatiha) of the Holy Koran; the seven points on the star represent faith in One God, humanity, national spirit, humility, social justice, virtue, and aspirations; design is based on the Arab Revolt ...
— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... never learnt this kind of painting? Does it not appear on the contrary that this mental portrait is in itself a work more difficult than tracing on canvas the shape of a flower, a thing we cannot do without having learnt it? We are all convinced that a key would be of no use to us for opening a chest if we were ignorant as to how to use the key, and yet we imagine that our soul is the efficient cause of the movement of our arms, despite that it knows neither where the nerves are which must be used for this ...
— Theodicy - Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil • G. W. Leibniz
... Opening the pasture gate from the saddle, Emil rode across the field to the clearing where the thresher stood, driven by a stationary engine and fed from the header boxes. As Amedee was not on the engine, Emil rode ...
— O Pioneers! • Willa Cather


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