Dictionary
opening
Meaning
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present participle and gerund of open
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈəʊ.pə.nɪŋ/
Cognate with Dutch
openend
Cognate with German
öffnend
Cognate with Dutch
opening
Cognate with German
Öffnung
New
open
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- Not closed.
- Not closed.
- Not closed.
- Not closed.
- Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended.
- Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
- Receptive.
- Public
- With open access, of open science, or both.
- Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
- Mild (of the weather); free from frost or snow.
- Having a free variable.
- Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X.
- Whose first and last vertices are different.
- In current use; connected to as a resource.
- To be in a position allowing fluid to flow.
- To be in a position preventing electricity from flowing.
- Not fulfilled or resolved; incomplete.
- Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
- Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.
- Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve.
- Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
- Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement.
- Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
- Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
- That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
- Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components.
- Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.
- Source code of a computer program that is not within the text of a macro being generated.
- Having component words separated by spaces, as opposed to being joined together or hyphenated; for example, time slot as opposed to timeslot or time-slot.
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