What does opening mean?

Definitions for opening
ˈoʊ pə nɪŋopen·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. opening, gapnoun

    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"

  2. openingnoun

    a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise

  3. openingnoun

    becoming open or being made open

    "the opening of his arms was the sign I was waiting for"

  4. opening, opening night, curtain raisingnoun

    the first performance (as of a theatrical production)

    "the opening received good critical reviews"

  5. openingnoun

    the act of opening something

    "the ray of light revealed his cautious opening of the door"

  6. openingnoun

    opportunity especially for employment or promotion

    "there is an opening in the sales department"

  7. openingnoun

    the initial part of the introduction

    "the opening established the basic theme"

  8. possibility, possible action, openingnoun

    a possible alternative

    "bankruptcy is always a possibility"

  9. orifice, opening, portanoun

    an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity

    "the orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart"

  10. openingnoun

    a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made

    "they left a small opening for the cat at the bottom of the door"

  11. hatchway, opening, scuttlenoun

    an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

  12. opening, chess openingnoun

    a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess

    "he memorized all the important chess openings"

  13. first step, initiative, opening move, openingadjective

    the first of a series of actions

  14. openingadjective

    first or beginning

    "the memorable opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth"; "the play's opening scene"

GCIDE

  1. Openingnoun

    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.

Wiktionary

  1. openingnoun

    A hole; a gap; a crevice.

  2. openingnoun

    The first few moves in a game of chess.

    John spends two hours a day studying openings, and another two hours studying endgames.

  3. openingnoun

    An unoccupied employment position.

    We have an opening in our marketing department.

  4. openingnoun

    The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.

    They were disappointed at the turnout for their opening, but hoped that word would spread.

  5. openingnoun

    The initial period a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening.

  6. openingnoun

    The first few measures of a musical composition.

  7. openingnoun

    A time available for an appointment.

    If you'd like to make a booking with us, we have an opening at twelve o'clock.

  8. openingnoun

    A chance to make progress in a game, for example to score a goal.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Openingnoun

    Etymology: from open.

    The fire thus up, makes its way through the cracks and openings of the earth. John Woodward, Nat. Hist.

    God has been pleased to dissipate this confusion and chaos, and to give us some openings, some dawnings of liberty and settlement. Robert South, Sermons.

    The opening of your glory was like that of light; you shone to us from afar and disclosed your first beams on distant nations. Dryden.

ChatGPT

  1. opening

    An opening is an unblocked or unobstructed space that allows access, passage or a view into and through a structure or object. It can also refer to the act of starting or initiating something such as an event or a formal procedure.

Freebase

  1. Opening

    In mathematical morphology, opening is the dilation of the erosion of a set A by a structuring element 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 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. 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.

Editors Contribution

  1. opening

    A passage within the human body.

    The vagina is an opening within a female human body.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 26, 2020  


  2. openingverb

    Verb form of the word open.

    The opening of the new business was delightful


    Submitted by MaryC on March 20, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'opening' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2064

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'opening' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2723

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'opening' in Nouns Frequency: #859

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of opening in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of opening in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of opening in a Sentence

  1. Henry David Thoreau:

    Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.

  2. Will Claye:

    My first Olympics in 2012, I walked and I was able to meet and take pictures with some of my idols in sport, some of the athletes that I look up to like Kobe( Bryant), LeBron( James) and actually being able to spend time with these people while we were preparing to do Opening Ceremonies, and those are the memories that last a lifetime... For someone who this may be their first Olympics, it's a once in a lifetime thing. You never know if you'll be able to get back to that stage.Traditional Tongan dress If this was an opening ceremony like no other, one thing remained unchanged compared to past Olympics : Pita Taufatofua made a return.Taufatofua first caught the attention of Olympic Stadium spectators in Rio five years ago when he appeared wearing traditional Tongan dress and covered in oil. Pita Taufatofua then repeated the act at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics two years later. Pita Taufatofua leads out Team Tonga during the opening ceremony. {.

  3. John Adams:

    I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

  4. Mark Mobius:

    They say they are opening the market, but in reality it is a very, very restricted opening, there are lots of ifs ... nd buts when it comes to actually making direct investments.

  5. Nancy Lieberman:

    The things that have happened to me in my career when they put -- well, she was the first or she did that, it's really not about me. It's just about opening doors and opening people's minds.

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