opening

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   present participle and gerund of open

2. 2

   Pertaining to the start or beginning of a series of events.

   • The opening theme of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is, perhaps, the most recognizable in all of European art music.
3. 3

   Of the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket.

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   1. 4

      Of the batsman who opens the innings or of a bowler who opens the attack.

   2. 5

      An act or instance of making or becoming open.

      • The daily openings of the day lily bloom gives it its name.
      • He remembered fondly the Christmas morning opening of presents.
   3. 6

      A gap permitting passage through.

      • A salamander darted out of an opening in the rocks.
      • He slipped through an opening in the crowd.
      • He held that great exactness in craniotopography is unnecessary, all that is needed being to make a sufficiently large opening.
   4. 7

      An act or instance of beginning.

      • There have been few factory and store openings in the US lately.
      • Their opening of the concert with Brass in Pocket always fires up the crowd.
   5. 8

      Something that is a beginning.

      • They were disappointed at the turnout for their opening, but hoped that word would spread.
   6. 9

      A vacant position, especially in an array.

      • Are there likely to be any openings on the Supreme Court in the next four years?
   7. 10

      An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.

      • The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.
   8. 11

      In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.

   9. 12

      Synonym of Fatiha.

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