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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



... 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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