Crossword clues for opening
opening
- Debut
- Orifice; opportunity
- Opportunity created by old writer in Greek capital
- Supposing one's knocked out by Earth's opportunity?
- First hole
- First - beginning
- Round figure doctor holds up in window, perhaps
- Job opportunity
- Turned up one over the eight during work: good start!
- Performance the night before the reviews come out, typically
- Job possibility
- Available job
- Window of opportunity
- Occasion for good-luck wreaths
- Kind of band on big tour
- It's usually grand, for merchants
- First — beginning
- Employment opportunity
- Certain night or bid
- Brooks Atkinson evening
- With 14-Across, what latecomers may miss
- Opportunity especially for employment or promotion
- The first of a series of actions
- Display the contents of a file or start an application
- Afford access to
- Become available
- Make available, as of an opportunity
- Begin or set in action, of meetings, speeches, recitals, etc.
- Start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning
- Especially a passageway between decks of a ship
- An entrance equipped with a hatch
- A vacant or unobstructed space
- The initial part of the introduction
- The first performance (as of a theatrical production)
- A ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise
- A possible alternative
- Opportunity
- Aperture
- Broadway event
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Open \O"pen\ v. t. [imp. & p. p. Opened; p. pr. & vb. n. Opening.] [AS. openian. See Open,a.]
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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.
--Whittier. To spread; to expand; as, to open the hand.
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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.
--Bacon.Unto thee have I opened my cause.
--Jer. xx. 12.While he opened to us the Scriptures.
--Luke xxiv. 32. -
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.
--Abp. Abbot. 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.
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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.''
--Prof. Wilson.
Opening \O"pen*ing\, n.
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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.
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A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole.
We saw him at the opening of his tent.
--Shak. Hence: An opportunity; as, an opening for business. [Colloq.]
--Dickens.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.
A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; a clearing; as, oak openings. [U.S.]
--Cooper.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English openung "act of opening" (a door, mouth, etc.), "disclosure, manifestation," verbal noun from present participle of open (v.). Meaning "vacant space, hole, aperture, doorway" is attested from c.1200. Meaning "act of opening (a place, to the public)" is from late 14c. Sense of "action of beginning (something)" is from 1712; meaning "first performance of a play" is 1855; "start of an art exhibit" is from 1905. Sense of "opportunity, chance" is from 1793.
Wiktionary
(context cricket English) (non-gloss definition describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing a batsman who opens the innings or a bowler who open the attack opens the attack) n. 1 An act or instance of making or becoming open. 2 Something that is open. 3 An act or instance of beginning. 4 Something that is a beginning. 5 # The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe. 6 # The initial period a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening. 7 # The first few measures of a musical composition. 8 # (context chess English) The first few moves in a game of chess. 9 A vacant position, especially in an array. 10 # A time available in a schedule. 11 # An unoccupied employment position. 12 An opportunity, as in a competitive activity. v
(present participle of open English)
WordNet
adj. first or beginning; "the memorable opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth"; "the play's opening scene" [ant: closing]
n. an open or empty space in or between things; "there was a small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a gap in the wall" [syn: gap]
a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise
becoming open or being made open; "the opening of his arms was the sign I was waiting for"
the first performance (as of a theatrical production); "the opening received good critical reviews" [syn: opening night, curtain raising]
the act of opening something; "the ray of light revealed his cautious opening of the door" [ant: shutting]
opportunity especially for employment or promotion; "there is an opening in the sales department"
the initial part of the introduction; "the opening established the basic theme"
a possible alternative; "bankruptcy is always a possibility" [syn: possibility, possible action]
an aperture or hole opening into a bodily cavity; "the orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart" [syn: orifice, porta]
a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made; "they left a small opening for the cat at the bottom of the door"
an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship [syn: hatchway, scuttle]
the first of a series of actions; "he memorized all the important chess openings" [syn: first step, initiative, opening move]
Wikipedia
Opening may refer to:
- Al-Fatiha, "The Opening", the first chapter of the Qur'an
- Backgammon opening
- Chess opening
- A title sequence or opening credits
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, a term from contract bridge
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, a term from contract bridge
- Grand opening of a business or other institution
- Hole (disambiguation)
- Inauguration
- Keynote (disambiguation)
- Opening (morphology), a morphological filtering operation used in image processing
- Opening sentence
- Opening statement, a beginning statement in a court case
- Overture
- Salutation (greeting)
- Vernissage
In mathematical morphology, opening is the dilation of the erosion of a set A by a structuring element B:
A ∘ B = (A ⊖ B) ⊕ B,
where ⊖ and ⊕ denote erosion and dilation, respectively.
Together with closing, the opening serves in computer vision and image processing as a basic workhorse of morphological noise removal. Opening removes small objects from the foreground (usually taken as the dark pixels) of an image, placing them in the background, while closing removes small holes in the foreground, changing small islands of background into foreground. These techniques can also be used to find specific shapes in an image. Opening can be used to find things into which a specific structuring element can fit (edges, corners, ...).
One can think of B sweeping around the inside of the boundary of A, so that it does not extend beyond the boundary, and shaping the A boundary around the boundary of the element.
Usage examples of "opening".
The belly shimmered and disappeared, and through it Alexander could see a large room with a vaulted window, opening on to a night-dark sky ablaze with stars.
Finally, he points out the practical bearing of the subject--for example, the probability of calculus causing sudden suppression of urine in such cases--and also the danger of surgical interference, and suggests the possibility of diagnosing the condition by ascertaining the absence of the opening of one ureter in the bladder by means of the cystoscope, and also the likelihood of its occurring where any abnormality of the genital organs is found, especially if this be unilateral.
Bonnain and Payne have observed analogous cases of this abnormality of the vaginal opening and subsequent accouchement by the anus.
In fact, the opening was depressingly familiar, full of protestations of loyalty to both King George and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, plus a promise that the authors would willingly fight the French, indeed die for their country, but they could not face another day aboard such a hellish ship.
It was found that the womb had been ruptured and the child killed, for in several days it was delivered in a putrid mass, partly through the natural passage and partly through an abscess opening in the abdominal wall.
I They secured the end of the rope to one of the poles wedged like an anchor in the opening of the tunnel that led to the crystal cavern, and Craig abseiled down the rope to the water at the bottom of the shaft once more.
It is absolutely not an experience not an experience of momentary states, not an experience of self, not an experience of no-self, not an experience of relaxing, not an experience of surrendering: it is the Empty opening or clearing in which all of those experiences come and go, an opening or clearing that, were it not always already perfectly Present, no experiences could arise in the first place.
Through an arched opening, she could see a cobbled area that flickered with torchlight, contrasting sharply with the bright, actinic glare of floodlamps.
It made Addle feel like he was sorting through her mind, opening up certain ideas and shuffling aside others.
Johnson, inferior to none in philosophy, philology, poetry, and classical learning, stands foremost as an essayist, justly admired for the dignity, strength, and variety of his style, as well as for the agreeable manner in which he investigates the human heart, tracing every interesting emotion, and opening all the sources of morality.
The sign advertised the grand opening, phone and location of the store and kept roaming through the neighborhood for four days.
Is there not something horrible in the look and sound of the word afanc, something connected with the opening and shutting of immense jaws, and the swallowing of writhing prey?
He continued forward to the last set aft, opening it, then headed forward.
On the way, Alameda turned around and smiled at him, and the expression on her face startled him so severely that he tripped on the step-off pad of the hatch to the special operations compartment tunnel, catching himself on the hatch opening.
Captain Catardi was blown into Pacino, then slid past Alameda down the inclined tunnel deck back toward the hatch opening.