Word Finder - open

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Not closed

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Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended

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an open hand; an open flower

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Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.

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Banks are not open on bank holidays.

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Receptive.

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I am open to new ideas.

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Public

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He published an open letter to the governor on a full page of the New York Times.

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Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.

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The man is an open book.

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(of a formula) Having a free variable.

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(of a set) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X.

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(of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.

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(of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory.

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I couldn't save my changes because another user had the same file open.

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Not fulfilled.

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I've got open orders for as many containers of red durum as you can get me.

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Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.

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an open question

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(stringed instruments) Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.

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(wind instruments) Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve.

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Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.

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an open winter

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(Of correspondence) Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement. (Opposite of "without prejudice")

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You will observe that this is an open letter and we reserve the right to mention it to the judge should the matter come to trial.

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Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.

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Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.

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(of a syllable) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.

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Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components.

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Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.

You don't have to open your mouth.

It was open, so I came in.

After a slight hesitation the door burst open with a cracking blow.

If you don't open this door I'm going to kick it open.

He pushed the passenger's side door open and she leaned down to look at him.

Perhaps in time when she feels more secure she'll open up.

I'm open to suggestions.

Suddenly the door was thrown open and the Queen of Sheba came in.

In a short time he was free and in the open air.

There was a position open at a private home, but the salary had to be wrong.

The guest room is open.

I used to start them in the open land also, where they had come out of the woods at sunset to "bud" the wild apple trees.

She pushed the door open and hurried to the sink.

It took fifty minutes before the door burst open and Howie dashed out and up the stairs with Martha close on his heels.

The door stood open and a table was set in the front room, with four chairs drawn up to it.

I'll make Pashette open her eyes.

At the car, Connie hugged Lisa while Giddon impatiently held the car door open for her.

Betsy is standing on one leg and she's holding a Time magazine, open to page eighteen.

The beach ahead of her was open and dark.

He pushed the door open to his chamber and saw Katie on the bed with an unconscious Iliana.

Where now firm open fields stretch from the village to the woods, it then ran through a maple swamp on a foundation of logs, the remnants of which, doubtless, still underlie the present dusty highway, from the Stratton, now the Alms-House Farm, to Brister's Hill.

I too felt a slumberous influence after watching him half an hour, as he sat thus with his eyes half open, like a cat, winged brother of the cat.

For I came to town still, like a friendly Indian, when the contents of the broad open fields were all piled up between the walls of the Walden road, and half an hour sufficed to obliterate the tracks of the last traveller.

Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors--why the judge does not dismis his case--why the preacher does not dismiss his congregation!

She started to shut the door, but he had the storm door open and his foot in the door before she could react.

We all looked questioningly to Martha who stood at the open doorway.

There were three bedrooms and an open concept kitchen dining area with a cathedral ceiling.

She gazed up at him as he held the barn door open for her.

She flipped her phone open.

He flung the door open and shoved the healer into the room, ignoring the two surprised occupants of the chamber as he closed the door without entering.

Dorothy must take her parasol and open it suddenly when the wooden folks attack her.

Just then a loud cackling was heard outside; and, when a servant threw open the door with a low bow, a yellow hen strutted in.

The door was thrown open and he saw a hundred brave men, all ready to give him aid.

They passed out into the open country and saw the cottages of the poor people.

Calf must not open mouth much to kiss.

I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless where man has broken ground.

The remarkably adult yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very memorable.

It seemed to me that I never had heard the town-clock strike before, nor the evening sounds of the village; for we slept with the windows open, which were inside the grating.

She was an open book to him and he was obsessed with the idea of reading it.

It yawned open for her.

The next winter I used a small cooking-stove for economy, since I did not own the forest; but it did not keep fire so well as the open fireplace.

Once more, on the left, where are seen the well and lilac bushes by the wall, in the now open field, lived Nutting and Le Grosse.

The latter raises the moss and bark gently with his knife in search of insects; the former lays open logs to their core with his axe, and moss and bark fly far and wide.

In 1845 Walden was first completely open on the 1st of April; in '46, the 25th of March; in '47, the 8th of April; in '51, the 28th of March; in '52, the 18th of April; in '53, the 23d of March; in '54, about the 7th of April.

Just as he was going to open it the sounds ceased, the door opened, and Kutuzov with his eagle nose and puffy face appeared in the doorway.

The handsome open face of the man who might perhaps be her husband absorbed all her attention.

Prince Andrew got up, went to the door, and tried to open it.

And leave the door open, would you?

They reached an open place in the brush where Diablo stood hip-shod, his eyes half closed - as if all hell wasn't getting ready to burst loose.

As she passed his office, she glanced through the open door.