open meaning
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[ˈəʊ.pən] [ˈoʊ.pən] [-əʊpən] 
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- O or OPEN may refer to:
- Open (film), a 2011 film
- Open (sport), type of competition in tennis, golf and other sports where entry is open to qualifiers regardless of amateur or professional status
- Open...., the original interactive television service on BSkyBs Sky Digital platform
- Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act, a bill in the United States Congress to combat online piracy
- Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of North America, inclusive, not-for-profit organization
- The One-Pair Ethernet specification of the OPEN Alliance SIG
FR open 
- NounPLopens
- A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
- (electronics) a wire that is broken midway.
- The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.
- (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
- I can't believe you left the lawnmower out in the open when you knew it was going to rain this afternoon!
- Wary of hunters, the fleeing deer kept well out of the open, dodging instead from thicket to thicket.
- (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
- We have got to bring this company's corrupt business practices into the open.
- A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
- VerbSGopensPRopeningPT, PPopened
- (transitive) To make something accessible or remove an obstacle to its being accessible.
- I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
- (transitive) To bring up (a topic).
- I don't want to open that subject.
- (transitive) To make accessible to customers or clients.
- I will open the shop an hour early tomorrow.
- (transitive) To start (a campaign).
- Vermont will open elk hunting season next week.
- (intransitive) To become open.
- I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
- (intransitive) To begin conducting business.
- The shop opens at 9:00.
- To enter upon; to begin.
- to open a discussion; to open fire upon an enemy; to open trade, or correspondence; to open a case in court, or a meeting
- (intransitive, cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
- (intransitive, poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
- After the first two players fold, Julie opens for $5.
- (transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
- Jeff opens his hand revealing a straight flush.
- (computing, transitive, intransitive, of a file, document, etc.) To load into memory for viewing or editing.
- To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
- to open a closed fist
- to open matted cotton by separating the fibres
- (obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
- (transitive) To make something accessible or remove an obstacle to its being accessible.
- AdjectiveCOMmore openSUPmost open
- (not comparable) Which is not closed; accessible; unimpeded; as, an open gate.
- Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
- an open hand; an open flower; an open prospect
- (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
- Banks are not open on bank holidays.
- (comparable) Receptive.
- I am open to new ideas.
- (not comparable) Public; as, an open letter, an open declaration.
- He published an open letter to the governor on a full page of the New York Times.
- (not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
- The man is an open book.
- (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable.
- (mathematics, topology, of a set) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of , that defines a topological space on.
- (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.
- (computing, not comparable, of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory.
- I couldn't save my changes because another user had the same file open.
- (business) Not fulfilled.
- I've got open orders for as many containers of red durum as you can get me.
- Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
- an open question
- to keep an offer or opportunity open
- (music, stringed instruments) Without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard.
- 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.
- an open winter
- (phonetics) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
- (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
- (computing) Made public, usable with a free licence.
- (medicine) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.
- (not comparable) Which is not closed; accessible; unimpeded; as, an open gate.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Cricopharyngeal dysfunction (CPD), characterized by oropharyngeal dysphagia, may be due to incoordination as well as reduction in maximal opening of the UES during transphincteric flow [ 2 , 3 ].
- ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
- Late 14th century: For, but if Crist open myracle kiþe, / Wiþouten gilt þou shalt be slayn as swiþe. — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Open arthrolysis remains the gold standard for treatment of post-traumatic elbow stiffness.
- Open since 1972, the resort overlooks the northwestern shore of Lake Tahoe and has 89 mostly intermediate trails on its 2,904 acres, as well as a 420-foot superpipe and eight terrain parks.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The guy went ballistic when I tried to tell him he couldn't return the socks if the package had been opened.
- The church was repurposed as a nightclub by lighting changes and removing the pews, but it never opened.
- The bow guard was watching the other boat as it floated among several fishing boats waiting for the bridge to open.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of open in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Adjectives ending in -en
- Adjectives ending in -en
- Morphemes
- Suffixes
- Words by suffix
- Words suffixed with -en
- Adjectives ending in -en
- Adjectives ending in -en
- Words suffixed with -en
- Words by suffix
- Suffixes
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Ergative verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Ergative verbs
- Adjectives
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "open" is an adjective, more specifically, an adjectives ending in -en. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an ergative verb, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.