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Opening   /ˈoʊpənɪŋ/   Listen
Opening

noun
1.
An open or empty space in or between things.  Synonym: gap.  "The explosion made a gap in the wall"
2.
A ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise.
3.
Becoming open or being made open.
4.
The first performance (as of a theatrical production).  Synonyms: curtain raising, opening night.
5.
The act of opening something.
6.
Opportunity especially for employment or promotion.
7.
The initial part of the introduction.
8.
A possible alternative.  Synonyms: possibility, possible action.
9.
An aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity.  Synonyms: orifice, porta.
10.
A vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made.
11.
An entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship.  Synonyms: hatchway, scuttle.
12.
A recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess.  Synonym: chess opening.
13.
The first of a series of actions.  Synonyms: first step, initiative, opening move.
adjective
1.
First or beginning.  "The play's opening scene"


Open

verb
(past & past part. opened; pres. part. opening)
1.
Cause to open or to become open.  Synonym: open up.
2.
Start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning.  Synonym: open up.
3.
Become open.  Synonym: open up.
4.
Begin or set in action, of meetings, speeches, recitals, etc..
5.
Spread out or open from a closed or folded state.  Synonyms: spread, spread out, unfold.  "Spread your arms"
6.
Make available.  Synonym: open up.
7.
Become available.  Synonym: open up.
8.
Have an opening or passage or outlet.
9.
Make the opening move.
10.
Afford access to.  Synonyms: afford, give.  "The French doors give onto a terrace"
11.
Display the contents of a file or start an application as on a computer.



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"Opening" Quotes from Famous Books



... in 1837, opening the season with a performance of "Fidelio" in English. The whole performance was lamentably inferior to that at the Opera-House in 1832. "Norma" was produced, Schroeder-Devrient being seconded by Wilson, Giubilei, and Miss Betts. She was either very ill advised or overconfident, for her ...
— Great Singers, Second Series - Malibran To Titiens • George T. Ferris
... November 21st, 1861, and published in the "Linn. Soc. Trans." XXIII., 1862, page 495, under the title of "Contributions to an Insect Fauna of the Amazon Valley.") Style seems to me very good and clear; but I much regret that in the title or opening passage you did not blow a loud trumpet about what you were going to show. Perhaps the paper would have been better more divided into sections with headings. Perhaps you might have given somewhere rather more of a summary on the progress of segregation of varieties, and not ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin
... clearness that it seemed as though until then his mind must have been in hopeless confusion. The threatened land of France was his native country. Fifteen centuries of history had been working for him, in order that his opening eyes might survey progress and comforts that his ancestors did not even know. Many generations of Desnoyers had prepared for his advent into life by struggling with the land and defending it that he might be born into a free family and fireside. . . . And when his turn had come ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... had dabbled in philosophy. What are we to say of the Jupiter of the Aeneid? We do not need to read far in the first book of the poem to find him spoken of in terms which remind us of Varro: "O qui res hominumque deumque Aeternis regis imperiis," are the opening words of the address of Venus; ...
— Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero • W. Warde Fowler
... produced a more wholesome kind of fatigue, and the temper which tended to discontent had partly gone with them, partly been chased away by reflection in a right spirit. As she was entering the park, Elliot, also on horseback, came up in time to profit by the same opening of ...
— The Two Guardians • Charlotte Mary Yonge


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