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Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.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