Crossword clues for open-ended
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
open-ended \open-ended\ adj.
allowing for a spontaneous response; as, an open-ended question. Contrasted to multiple-choice.
without fixed limits or restrictions, as to tpoic or time; as, an open-ended discussion.
allowing for future changes or revisions; as, open-ended agreements.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 unrestricted by definite limits 2 adaptable to change 3 permitting a spontaneous or unstructured response 4 (context poker English) Of a straight#Noun draw, made up of four consecutive cards, thus able to be completed by either of two ranks of card.
WordNet
adj. without fixed limits or restrictions; "an open-ended discussion"
allowing for a spontaneous response; "an open-ended question"
allowing for future changes or revisions; "open-ended agreements"
Wikipedia
Open-ended refers to a situation in poker where the player has four of five cards needed for a straight that can be completed at either end. For example, a player with 3♥ 4♥ 5♣ 6♠ is open-ended, because a deuce or a seven would give the player a straight. This situation is also called an outside straight draw or double-ended straight draw as the cards needed to complete the straight are cards which are on the outside (both ends) of the current hand, as opposed to an inside draw such as 2♦ 3♠ 4♠ 6♥ or A♣ 2♣ 3♣ 4♦, which can only be completed by a five. The term originated with draw poker but is also used in games like Texas hold'em.
Seven-card games like hold'em and stud also allow the possibility of double belly-buster draws, also called double-inside or two-way draws, which, like an inside draw, a card is needed within a series to fill. But unlike simple inside draws, two ranks can fill the hand. An example of this is A♥ 3♥ 4♣ 5♠7♣, in which a deuce fills the inside straight A2345, and a six would fill the inside straight 34567.
These terms are also used for straight flush draws. 2♥ 3♥ 4♥ 5♥ is a straight-flush draw, since A♥ and 6♥ will create straight flushes. Such hands are optimal drawing hands, since the player has up to fifteen outs (nine cards remaining in the suit, six cards which complete the straight but not the flush).
Open-ended may refer to:
- "Open Ended," song by Sebadoh from their 1996 album Harmacy
- Open-ended contract A contract with no definite time limit
- Open-ended (gameplay), dynamic situations or scenarios that allow the individual to determine the outcome
- Open-ended (poker), situation in poker where the player has four of five cards needed for a straight that can be completed at either end
- Open-end fund, collective investment which can issue and redeem shares at any time
- Open-ended question
Usage examples of "open-ended".
Venice during Carnevale, after Shyla died, when I had been covering the revelry of Venetians before the long fastings and privations of Lent During the wildest part of that first night, I had marveled that these people who were celebrating the pleasures of the flesh with such open-ended immoderation could turn so quickly to the darker joys of self-denial.
They have made very clear that while they would support one last, massive operation to remove Saddam from power once and for all, they are not interested in waging an open-ended war against Iraq.
He was aware the CIA still had an open-ended hit contract out on Bruce Rossiter, who had shot an American in a bar in Leopoldville because the man was staring at him.
They might also get an open-ended garnishment on him, under which he and his descendants, if any, would pay a stated percentage of their annual income down through the ages until the debt, and the compounding interest thereon, was finally satisfied.
No matter how long you count, how many unnamable numbers you utter beyond googolplex and glossolalia for how many years and decades, there's still one more number, it's still an open-ended sequence, it still outflies the imagination.
Azhar Book Index shows entries through the Holy Church into present theology indicat ing that rather than being a historical document, this is an open ended collection And though the Missionana Protectiva was supposed to have ended long before the Atreides time the Panoplia Prophettcas Index indicates that it too is an open-ended current collection Hadi Benotto Director of the Dar es Balat Project, has requested that both collections be opened for research Judehic noted the curiosity that the Tleilaxu Godbuk Index was with the other two indices-a strange associa tion since the Bene Gessent Library has this item included in its Xenocultural .
Then he pumps something like an Imperial pint of semen--it's a seemingly open-ended series of ejaculations, each coupled to the next by nothing more than a leap of faith that another one is coming--and in the end, like all schemes built on faith and hope, it lapses, and then Randy sits utterly still until his body realizes it has not drawn breath in quite a while.
What they stress is that they are not willing to launch an open-ended military campaign or a military campaign that tries to topple Saddam on the cheap.
I have an open-ended, round-trip ticket from Santa Teresa, California, to Palm Beach, Florida, and I'd like to book the return.
Facing eastwards, he had the open sea on his right--with the Triton anchored a quarter of a mile out--the lagoon facing him, and the open-ended rectangle of the harbour to his left Several small rowing boats were scattered across the lagoon, but most were close by the coral reef, each with two or three men fishing with tropical lethargy, hidden from the heat of the sun by wide-brimmed straw hats or pieces of sacking propped up with sticks to make a little shadow.
A sales representative named Kayla told me I had an open-ended, round-trip, first-class L.
The Fell Street captain gave her a couple of weeks open-ended, to tidy up.