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/ˈoʊpənɪŋ/
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[ UK /ˈəʊpənɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ˈəʊpənɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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becoming open or being made open
the opening of his arms was the sign I was waiting for - a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise
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a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess
he memorized all the important chess openings - the first of a series of actions
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opportunity especially for employment or promotion
there is an opening in the sales department -
a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made
they left a small opening for the cat at the bottom of the door -
an open or empty space in or between things
the explosion made a gap in the wall
there was a small opening between the trees -
the act of opening something
the ray of light revealed his cautious opening of the door -
the first performance (as of a theatrical production)
the opening received good critical reviews -
an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity
the orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart - an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
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a possible alternative
bankruptcy is always a possibility -
the initial part of the introduction
the opening established the basic theme
ADJECTIVE
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first or beginning
the play's opening scene
the memorable opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth
How To Use opening In A Sentence
- The beak is smoth, black, convex and cultrated; one and 1/8 inches from the point to the opening of the chaps and 3/4 only uncovered with feathers; the upper chap exceeds the other a little in length. a few small black hairs garnish the sides of the base of the upper chap. the eye is of a uniform deep sea green or black, moderately large. it's legs feet and tallons are white; the legs are an inch and a 1/4 in length and smoth; four toes on each foot, of which that in front is the same length with the leg including the length of the tallon, which is 4 lines; the three remaining toes are The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
- Clearly the megalosaurus in the opening passage of Bleak House is a flight of hyperbolic fancy (inspired, I would guess, by the papier-mâché dinosaurs constructed for the Crystal Palace Exhibition, a couple of years earlier).
- The openings permit solid and semi-solid bodily exudates to pass through the top sheet to the absorbent core as the diaper is worn.
- it was the opening session of the legislature
- There are two main approaches: one is a synthetic plug the same shape as a cork that can be placed in the top of the bottle in the same way as a cork and removed with a corkscrew, so preserving the ritual of opening a bottle of wine.
- The lower opening is formed by the twelfth thoracic vertebra behind, by the eleventh and twelfth ribs at the sides, and in front by the cartilages of the tenth, ninth, eighth, and seventh ribs, which ascend on either side and form an angle, the subcostal angle, into the apex of which the xiphoid process projects. II. Osteology. 4. The Thorax
- In more traditional settings, people wear boubous, loose-fitting cotton tunics with large openings under the arms.
- RHP Brandon Lyon parlayed his surprising spring performance into the opening day closer job, supplanting RHP Greg Aquino.
- He sat there passively, content to wait for his father to make the opening move.
- Green styles this sequence like the opening credits of a 1970s cop show, freeze-framing on Chris as he leaps over a fence and zooming the titles across the screen.