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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
opener
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bottle opener
can opener
tin opener
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bottle
▪ Make a check list of essential items such as a corkscrew, bottle opener and a sharp knife for cutting bread etc.
▪ Each of us takes a turn with the bottle opener.
can
▪ They were there because the can opener that came with the caravan was worn out.
▪ A hat, a pot holder, a can opener.
▪ When they had their breakfast Tam asked me if he could possibly have a lend of my can opener for their beans.
▪ She pulled out a can of soup, but the can opener was dead.
▪ Earlier this evening he asked to borrow my new can opener.
▪ Is a car bumper, but see this part is a removable can opener.
▪ I realized I would have to stand firm about the can opener or risk losing my authority over Tam and Richie.
▪ Just tear open and eat-no need to find a can opener or drain the tuna.
door
▪ The club owner said he gave them a garage door opener and let one deputy spend the night.
▪ I don't want to give up modern conveniences such as my computer or garage door opener.
eye
▪ Interviewing prospective candidates was quite an eye opener for people who haven't a clue on what that job entails.
▪ Being kicked around can be a real eye opener.
▪ Group dynamics were a great eye opener.
▪ Some said that the very writing of the case was an eye opener.
▪ Despite the many improvements in state provision Eva found her time at social services a great eye opener.
▪ But it is a great eye opener that you are not indispensable.
home
▪ By the time they finally play at home, everyone else will have long since had their home openers.
▪ The Warriors will play their home opener at the 19, 200-seat arena on Nov. 8 against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
▪ Or the Phillies postponing their home opener the day before because of rain.
▪ As far as home openers go, there have been smoother rides.
season
▪ The Hollywood Bowl dedicated its July 6 season opener to him.
▪ Woodson has been missing in action completely since tearing up his knee in the season opener.
▪ Pitching coach Dave Wallace said that Radinsky still has time to be ready for the season opener.
▪ He was pummeled by Dallas' pass rush when the teams last played in the 1994 season opener.
▪ In the season opener, they held the Giants to 65 yards during a 35-0 Dallas shutout.
▪ One week before their season opener, the Raiders acknowledged two painful slices of reality Sunday.
tin
▪ He may need special implements, such as a wall-mounted tin opener which he can operate with one hand.
▪ The little gear lever feels like a tin opener on a string of cables.
▪ For example, this graph shows sales of tin openers from January to June.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an electric can opener
▪ the Nuggets' season opener
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He picked up a letter opener from his table and slipped the blade into one of the bags.
▪ I don't want to give up modern conveniences such as my computer or garage door opener.
▪ Next Sunday will be easier, against Jacksonville in the Raiders' home opener.
▪ O'Neill won the opener on the final ball but was then hit with breaks of 77, 60 and 56.
▪ They were there because the can opener that came with the caravan was worn out.
▪ You had the Yanks falling behind 5-0 in the opener only to go back-to-back-to-back.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Opener

Opener \O"pen*er\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, opens. ``True opener of my eyes.''
    --Milton.

  2. Specifically: A bottle opener or a can opener; as, you need an opener to get the cap off.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
opener

"one who opens," Old English openere, agent noun from open (v.).

Wiktionary
opener

n. 1 A device that opens something; specifically a tin-opener/can-opener, or a bottle opener. 2 (context card games English) The player who starts the betting. 3 (context card games English) (''in plural'' '''openers''') Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting. 4 (context theater English) The first act in a variety show. 5 (context Islam English) Fatiha 6 (context cricket English) A batsman who normally plays in the first two positions of an innings. 7 (context colloquial English) The first in a series of events, items etc.; the first remark or sentence of a conversation. 8 (context sports English) The first game played in a competition

WordNet
opener
  1. n. the first event in a series; "she played Chopin for her opener"; "the season's opener was a game agains the Yankees"

  2. a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens; "children are talented undoers of their shoelaces" [syn: undoer, unfastener, untier]

  3. a hand tool used for opening sealed containers (bottles or cans)

Wikipedia
Opener

Opener may refer to:

  • Opening batsman in the game of cricket
  • Conversation opener or pick-up line
  • Opening act, a performance by an introductory group prior to the main act
  • Opener (album), the debut album of 8mm
  • Open'er Festival, a contemporary music festival held in Gdynia, Poland
  • Can opener
  • Bottle opener

Openers may refer to the plural of 'opener', or to:

  • Two or more playing cards that form the minimum starting hand to start the betting in draw poker
Opener (album)

Opener is the debut album of 8mm.

Usage examples of "opener".

Mopo the murderer, he who vanished from the land after the death of my uncle Dingaan, gave you the little red assegai, did he, Opener of Roads!

He asked me of the Inkosazana-y-Zulu who appeared in the Vale of Bones and of the little assegai she held in her hand, and of the magic of the Opener of Roads, and many other things.

Bingo, brought the opener from the kitchen, handed Bingo his cigarettes, and then disappeared into the improvised darkroom.

The Israelis make them with wire cutters in the bipods and bottle openers on the butt.

I suspected this behavior was the buzzardly equivalent of a cat rubbing itself against your ankle when it hears the can opener.

The knife was little more than a fancy, oversized letter opener he had bought for himself several years ago, but Druery was panic-stricken and terrified, and did not realize the difference.

Constituency Wife, Mark I, the opener of fetes and natural hogger of cameras.

He rolled the handle of the letter opener between his fingers, studying the blade, finding it more interesting than Johar and Samir.

Silently Archer prowled the cabins homey main room, touching things at random: a computer that bristled with Kyles Rube Goldberg additions, books on everything from international banking to five thousand years of Chinese jade, a Baroque flute, a small vase with a branch of rosemary in it, a letter opener that could slice to the bone, and a fishing lure that looked like a tiny hula skirt.

Realizing that warning extended to herself, Tracy harrumphed and tapped the garage-door opener on her visor.

The garrotte goes round his neck at the start of the Allegretto grazioso, keeps turning like you turn a can opener until the breath is out of his body and his neck is cut through.

Chardin Sher and the others in every capacity from door openers to escorts.

Among the most ingenious were pencil sharpeners that could also be used as earpicks, can openers as hair brushes.

Natalie pulled a bottle of Maccabee beer from the bottom of her shoulder bag and used the can opener on her new Swiss Army knife to pop the lid.

She returned with a can opener, two quarts of beer, and a half pint of VO.