Word Finder - opens

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To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position.

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Turn the doorknob to open the door.

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To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility.

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He opened a path through the undergrowth.

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To bring up, broach.

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I don't want to open that subject.

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To enter upon, begin.

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to open a case in court, or a meeting

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To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.

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to open a closed fist

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To make accessible to customers or clients.

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I will open the shop an hour early tomorrow.

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To start (a campaign).

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Vermont will open elk hunting season next week.

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To become open.

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The door opened all by itself.

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To begin conducting business.

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The shop opens at 9:00.

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To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.

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To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.

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After the first two players fold, Julie opens for $5.

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To reveal one's hand.

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Jeff opens his hand revealing a straight flush.

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(of a file, document, etc.) To load into memory for viewing or editing.

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To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.

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(with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.

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I can't believe you left the lawnmower out in the open when you knew it was going to rain this afternoon!

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(with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.

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We have got to bring this company's corrupt business practices into the open.

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A defect in an electrical circuit preventing current from flowing.

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The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.

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A sports event in which anybody can compete

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the Australian Open

Door opens out, not in.

She opens up for him; more than any other stranger.

If she opens her mouth, he either doesn't listen or whacks it shut.

If it was someone he knew, then that opens up another list—his wife, a business enemy, an old grudge, or he could have been scooped.

That opens up a whole new list of sub-topics, like was it just a random mugger or someone he knew?

With this third Moses (the other two being the Biblical lawgiver and Moses Maimonides) a new era opens in the history of the Jewish people.

The great port of Le Havre stands at the mouth of the Seine estuary, which opens into the bay of,the Seine on the east.

With one exception, the intestine has a caecum, and the pouch is large and opens forwards.

The tertiary era opens with a climate in which during the Eocene period something like existing tropical conditions must have obtained in the northern hemisphere.

The vas deferens descends with many undulations down the lateral side of the ureter of the same side, and opens upon a small papilla into the urodaeum.

It lies on the estuary of the Lymington, which opens into the Solent.

Kells opens early on the weekends so you can enjoy all your favorite sports, and great food is always available from the pub menu.

I have to be at the market as soon as it opens.

The small pouch, supported by the usual epipubic bones, opens backwards.

James, opens up new suggestions in philosophy; the bearing of these upon theistic (or other) beliefs is hard to define.

It is situated in the Sivas-Samsun chausee, altitude 2280 ft., at the mouth of a rocky glen which opens out to the broad valley of the Tozanli Su, a tributary of the Yeshil Irmak.

The spiraculum is median and opens far back, in front of the vent.

The ante-Nicene period of patristic literature opens with the "apostolic fathers," 5 i.e.

Twentysix miles farther down lies the town of Deir, where the river divides into two channels and the river valley opens out into quite extensive plains.

Now the second period of her history opens; it remained for Roman territory to become romanized.

The first book opens with a few verses, in which Boetius describes how his sorrows had brought him to a premature old age.

Of the first the Tudor gateway opens upon Chancery Lane.

In the most primitive existing Gastropods the gonad opens into the right kidney (Patellidae, Trochidae, Fissurellidae).

The most important of these opens by the ventral pedal pore, situated in the median line in the anterior half of the foot.

The liver opens by two ducts into the digestive FIG.

The Mandaean places of worship, being designed only for the priests and their assistants (the worshippers remaining in the forecourt), are excessively small, and very simply furnished; two windows, a door that opens towards the south so that those who enter have their faces turned towards the pole star, a few boards in the corner, and a gabled roof complete the whole structure; there is neither altar nor decoration of any kind.

The female genital opening usually lies in front of the eighth abdominal segment, the male duct opens on the ninth.

The vagina usually opens in front of the eighth abdominal sternite.

The ejaculatory duct which opens on the ninth abdominal sternum in the adult male arises in the tenth abdominal embryonic segment and subsequently moves forward.

The treatise opens with an able sketch of psychology, founded upon, but in some important respects varying from, Aristotle's De Anima.

In 1900 it was shown that the coxal gland of Limulus is provided with a very delicate thin-walled coiled duct which opens, even in the adult condition, by a minute pore on the coxa of the fifth leg (Patten and Hazen, 13A).

Previously to this, Lankester's pupil Gulland had shown (1885) that in the embryo the coxal gland is a comparatively simple tube, which opens to the exterior in this position and by its other extremity into a coelomic space.

Scholasticism opens with a discussion of certain points in the Aristotelian logic; it speedily begins to apply its logical distinctions to the doctrines of the church; and when it attains its full stature in St Thomas it has, with the exception of certain mysteries, rationalized or Aristotelianized the whole churchly system.

The apocryphal Neoplatonic treatises and the First views of the Arabian commentators obscured for the effects of first students the genuine doctrine of Aristotle, and the the new 13th century opens with quite a crop of mystical knowledge.

The older part of Folkestone lies in a small valley which here opens upon the shore between steep hills.

A little east of Church Square this street opens on to Market Square, with commodious market buildings.

The subject of the conditions under which dropsical liquids are poured out opens up a very wide question, and one about which there is the greatest diversity of opinion.

The choir opens into a beautiful cloister, the massive vaulting of which is supported on heavy piers adorned with statuary, between which intervene slender columns arranged in pairs and surmounted by delicately carved capitals.

B, Diagram of the nephridium of Alciope, into which opens the large genital funnel (coelo mostome).

Externally, the nephridium opens by a straight part of the tube, which is often very wide, and here the intracellular lumen becomes intercellular.

In all these cases we have a duct which has a usually wide, always intercellular, lumen, generally, if not always, ciliated, which opens directly into the coelom on the one hand and on to the exterior of the body on the other.

Thus, in Octochaetus multiporus a large nephridium opens anteriorly into the buccal cavity, and numerous nephridia in the same worm evacuate their contents into the rectum.

Each testis communicates by means of an efferent duct with a common collecting duct of its side of the body, which opens on to the exterior by means of a protrusible penis, and to which is sometimes appended a seminal vesicle.

Into each ovarian sac behind the transverse junction opens a slender tube, which is greatly coiled, and, in its turn, opens into a spherical "spermathecal sac."

From this an equally slender tube proceeds, which joins its fellow of the opposite side, and the two form a thick, walled tube, which opens on to the exterior within the bursa copulatrix through which the penis protrudes.

Viewed from a distance the mountains appear as dark perpendicular barriers, quite impenetrable; but narrow paths lead round the precipitous face of the hills, and when the inner side is gained a wonderful panorama opens out.

It is at times sacculated, but its chief interest is that, as Lebedinsky 1 has shown, the tip of the caecum in embryonic life opens to the exterior as the blastopore.

Each opens in a vas deferens which bears three diverticula or vesiculae seminales, and three pairs of cement glands also are found which pour their secretions through a duct into the vasa deferentia.

The latter unite and end in a penis which opens posteriorly.

His next work, The Crisis (1901), opens in St.