opening

Meaning

present participle and gerund of open

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈəʊ.pə.nɪŋ/

Etymology

From Middle English openynge, openande, openand, from Old English openiende, from Proto-West Germanic *opanōndī, from Proto-Germanic *upanōndz, present participle of *upanōną (“to open”), equivalent to open + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian iepenjend, Dutch openend, German öffnend, Swedish öppnande, Icelandic opnandi.

Cognate with Dutch

openend

Cognate with German

öffnend

Cognate with Dutch

opening

Cognate with German

Öffnung

New

open

1. Not closed.
2. Not closed.
3. Not closed.
4. Not closed.
5. Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended.
6. Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
7. Receptive.
8. Public
9. With open access, of open science, or both.
10. Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
11. Mild (of the weather); free from frost or snow.
12. Having a free variable.
13. Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X.
14. Whose first and last vertices are different.
15. In current use; connected to as a resource.
16. To be in a position allowing fluid to flow.
17. To be in a position preventing electricity from flowing.
18. Not fulfilled or resolved; incomplete.
19. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
20. Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.
21. Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
25. Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
26. That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
27. Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components.
28. Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.
29. Source code of a computer program that is not within the text of a macro being generated.
30. 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.