A sign indicating that a shop isopen Adjective fromMiddle English open , fromOld English open ( “ open ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *opan , fromProto-Germanic *upanaz ( “ open ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *upo ( “ up from under, over ” ) .
Verb fromMiddle English openen , fromOld English openian ( “ to open ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *opanōn , fromProto-Germanic *upanōną ( “ to raise; lift; open ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *upanaz ( “ open ” ,adjective ) . Cognate withSaterland Frisian eepenje ( “ to open ” ) ,West Frisian iepenje ( “ to open ” ) ,Dutch openen ( “ to open ” ) ,German öffnen ( “ to open ” ) ,Danish åbne ( “ to open ” ) ,Swedish öppna ( “ to open ” ) ,Norwegian Bokmål åpne ( “ to open ” ) ,Norwegian Nynorsk andIcelandic opna ( “ to open ” ) . Related toEnglish up .
Noun fromMiddle English open ( “ an aperture or opening ” ) , from the verb. In the sports sense, however, a shortening of “open competition”.
open (comparative moreopen or ( phonetics ) opener ,superlative mostopen or ( phonetics ) openest )
( usually not comparable ) Physicallyunobstructed ,uncovered , etc.Able to have somethingpass through or along it.Come in – the door'sopen .
The ice has cleared and the channel isopen again.
Notcovered ,sealed , etc.; having anopening oraperture showing what isinside .The jewellery box was lyingopen .
Don't just stand there with your mouthopen !
Along the street ran anopen sewer.
Not physicallydrawn together ,folded orcontracted .She greeted them withopen arms.
The book wasopen at page 23.
anopen hand; anopen flower; anopen (loosely woven) fabric
2005 , Pamela J. Carter, Susan Lewsen,Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants , page277 :When the top sheet, blanket, and bedspread of a closed bed are turned back, or fanfolded, the closed bed becomes anopen bed, or a bed ready to receive a patient or resident.
Of aspace , free ofobjects andobstructions .It was a large,open room.
Most of the site was occupied by huts, but there was anopen area in the centre.
Soon we left the forest behind and we were out inopen country.
( medicine ) Resulting from anincision ,puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.anopen fracture
( sometimes proscribed ) Unlocked orunlatched but not physically open.[ 1] ( engineering , gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) In a position allowing fluid to flow.Of asandwich , etc.: composed of a singleslice ofbread with atopping .Synonyms: open-face ,open-faced 2001 , Jennie Walters,Caz’s Birthday Blues (Party Girls)[2] , London:Hodder Children’s Books ,→ISBN :Starry food is fun to make. You can buy bright yellow American mustard (which isn’t too strong!) in squeezy bottles and pipe stars on to hot dogs andopen burgers or sandwiches.
2012 , Jo McAuley, “[ Meat and Poultry] Turkey Burgers with Spicy Salsa”, inHamlyn QuickCook: Low Fat , London:Hamlyn ,→ISBN ,page152 :When the burgers are ready, place them on the toasted rolls with the romaine lettuce leaves and top with the salsa. Serve asopen burgers.
2015 ,Michael Robotham , chapter 17, inClose Your Eyes , London:Sphere ,→ISBN ,page133 :Sunday morning in Wellow and we feast onopen bagels with grilled ham, tomato and Swiss cheese, requested and highly praised.
( now regional ) 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.anopen winter
c. 1794 ,Jane Austen ,Lady Susan :He desires me to tell you that the presentopen weather induces him to accept Mr Vernon's invitation to prolong his stay in Sussex that they may have some hunting together.
Able to be used or interacted with in some way.( not comparable ) Available for use or operation.Your bank account is nowopen .
Phone linesopen at 10 pm.
This is the only optionopen to us.
( not comparable ) Actively conducting or prepared toconduct business .Banks are notopen on bank holidays.
Several new shops haveopened in Market Street.
( not comparable ) Allowingentrance tovisitors or thepublic .I hereby declare this feteopen .
The school has anopen day on Saturday.
( comparable ) Receptive .I amopen to new ideas.
2021 April 2, Ciara Nugent, “Can Public Transit Survive the Pandemic? London's New Transport Commissioner Wants You to Believe It Can”, inTime [3] :A U.K. survey found attitudes toward public transit had been set back by two decades, with only 43% of driversopen to using their car less, even if public transport improves.
( comparable , with 'to') Susceptible orvulnerable (to the stated means).open to question;open to attack;open to criticism
c. 1596–1599 (date written),William Shakespeare , “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, [ … ] .Epilogue .”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC ,[ Act V, scene ii] :The service that I truly did his life, / Hath left meopen to all injuries.
( computing , not comparable , of a file, document, etc.) In current use; connected to as a resource.I couldn't save my changes because another user had the same fileopen .
( computing , of a program or application, especially one with a screen-based interface) Running .You're getting short of memory because you have too many appsopen .
Nothidden orrestricted .Notconcealed ;overt .It is a blatant example ofopen criminality.
c. 1597 (date written),William Shakespeare , “The Merry Wiues of Windsor ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC ,[ Act I, scene iii] :His thefts were tooopen .
1667 ,John Milton , “Book III”, inParadise Lost. [ … ] , London: [ … ] [Samuel Simmons ], and are to be sold by Peter Parker [ … ] ;[ a] nd by Robert Boulter [ … ] ;[ a] nd Matthias Walker, [ … ] ,→OCLC ; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: [ … ] , London: Basil Montagu Pickering [ … ] ,1873 ,→OCLC :That I may find him, and with secret gaze / Oropen admiration him behold.
Of a person, notconcealing theirfeelings ,opinions , etc.;candid ,ingenuous .Nowadays people are moreopen about their sexuality.
1731-1735 ,Alexander Pope ,Moral Essays with aspectopen , shall erect his head c. 1603–1604 (date written),William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC ,[ Act I, scene iii] :The Moor is of a free andopen nature.
1705 ,J[oseph] Addison ,Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703 , London: [ … ] Jacob Tonson , [ … ] ,→OCLC :The French are alwaysopen , familiar, and talkative.
2001 , Xiaopei He, “Chinese Queer (Tongzhi ) Women Organizing in the 1990s”, in Ping-Chun Hsiung, Maria Jaschok, Cecilia Milwertz, Red Chan, editors,Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, Queers [4] ,Berg ,→ISBN ,→LCCN ,→OCLC ,page41 :Due to severe and pervasive discrimination, people dared not beopen about their homosexuality, and because no one would beopen , social prejudice and discrimination became even stronger.
( not comparable ) Public .He published anopen letter to the governor on a full page ofThe New York Times .
( law , ofcorrespondence ) Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at anytrial , rather than by way ofconfidential privatenegotiation for asettlement .You will observe that this is anopen letter and we reserve the right to mention it to the judge should the matter come to trial.
( not comparable ) Withopen access , ofopen science , or both.We hope that all aspects of the project will beopen rather than paywalled.
( computing , education ) Madepublic , usable with a freelicence and withoutproprietary components.2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs ”, inThe Economist , volume408 , number8845 :Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massiveopen online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
( sports ) Of atournament orcompetition , allowing anyone to enter, especially or originally irrespective ofprofessional oramateur status.( sports and games ) Characterised by free-flowing play.Compared to their last match, which was a dour and defensive affair, this was a veryopen game.
Notcompleted orfinalised .Notsettled ; notdecided ordetermined ; not withdrawn fromconsideration .anopen question
to keep an offer or opportunityopen
( sometimes business ) Notfulfilled orresolved ;incomplete .I've gotopen orders for as many containers of red durum as you can get me.
Not having one end joined to the other; not forming aclosed loop .anopen curve, anopen circuit
( electricity , of a switch or circuit breaker) In a position such that acircuit is not completed, preventing electricity from flowing.( graph theory , of awalk ) Having different first and last vertices.( phonetics , of a syllable) Ending in avowel ; not having acoda . ( mathematics , logic , of aformula ) Having afree variable .( mathematics , topology , of aset ) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets ofX {\displaystyle X} , that defines atopological space onX {\displaystyle X} .( music , stringed instruments) Of anote , played without pressing thestring against thefingerboard .( music ) Of anote , played without closing anyfinger-hole ,key orvalve .( phonetics , sometimes with comparativeopener ) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said ofvowels .1959 ,Anthony Burgess ,Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published1972 , page421 :"Supposing somebody sees you, with all those flowers too? Supposing somebody writes him a letter? Ooooh!" (a pure roundopen Tamil O.)
( phonetics ) Uttered, as aconsonant , with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.( computing , used before "code") Source code of a computer program that is not within the text of amacro being generated.(Can we add anexample for this sense? ) ( of a multi-word compound ) Having component words separated by spaces, as opposed to being joined together or hyphenated; for example,time slot as opposed totimeslot ortime-slot .( especially sports ) Of aclub ,bat or other hitting implement, angledupwards and/or (for aright-hander )clockwise of straight.not closed
Abkhaz:аарты ( aartʼə ) Afrikaana:oop Aghwan:𐔰𐕀𐔰𐔺 ( axay ) American Sign Language:( with relevant classifier, e.g. of a swinging door ) FlatB@Thumb-PalmForward-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-PalmForward FlatB@NearSideNeckhigh-PalmAcross-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-PalmForward ,( of a gate ) FlatB@TipFinger-FingerAcross-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-FingerAcross FlatB@NearSideNeckhigh-FingerBack-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-FingerAcross ,( of a box ) FlatB@Thumb-PalmDown-A@CenterChesthigh FlatB@SideShoulderHigh-PalmAcross-A@CenterChesthigh ,( of a book ) FlatB@Palm-PalmAcross-FlatB@CenterChesthigh-PalmAcross FlatB@Ulnar-PalmUp-FlatB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp Apache:Western Apache:gháʼátʼé Arabic:مَفْتُوح ( maftūḥ ) Egyptian Arabic:مفتوح ( maftūḥ ) Levantine Arabic:مفتوح ( maftūḥ ) Moroccan Arabic:محلول m ( maḥlūl ) ,مفتوح ( maftūḥ ) Armenian:բաց (hy) ( bacʻ ) Assamese:খোলা ( khüla ) Asturian:abiertu Avar:рагьун буго ( rahun bugo ) Azerbaijani:açıq (az) Bashkir:асыҡ ( asıq ) Basque:ireki ,zabal Belarusian:адкры́ты (be) m ( adkrýty ) Bengali:খোলা (bn) ( khōla ) Breton:digor (br) Bulgarian:отво́рен (bg) m ( otvóren ) ,откри́т (bg) m ( otkrít ) ,разтво́рен (bg) m ( raztvóren ) Catalan:obert (ca) Chechen:dillana Chinese:Mandarin:開着 / 开 (zh) ( kāizhe ) Cornish:ygor Czech:otevřený (cs) m Dalmatian:apiart Danish:åben (da) Dutch:open (nl) Esperanto:malfermita (eo) ,aperta ,malferma Estonian:lahtine Faroese:opin Finnish:avoin (fi) ,avonainen (fi) ,auki (fi) ( adverb ) French:ouvert (fr) Friulian:viert ,aviert Galician:aberto (gl) Gallurese:abbaltu Georgian:ღია ( ɣia ) German:auf (de) ,offen (de) Alemannic German:offe ,offä Greek:ανοιχτός (el) ( anoichtós ) Ancient:ἀνοικτός ( anoiktós ) Hebrew:פָּתוּחַ (he) ( patúakh ) Hindi:खुला (hi) ( khulā ) Hungarian:nyílt (hu) ,nyitott (hu) Icelandic:opinn (is) Indonesian:buka (id) Ingrian:avonain ,aukinain Irish:oscailte ,ar oscailt Italian:aperto (it) ,dischiuso (it) Japanese:開いた ( あいた, aita ) ,開けた (ja) ( あけた, aketa ) Kaitag:ач ( ač ) Kazakh:ашу ( aşu ) Khmer:ដែលបើក ( daelbaək ) ,ដែលចំហរ ( dêlchâmhâr ) Korean:연 (ko) ( yeon ) Kumyk:ачыкъ ( açıq ) ,ачылгъан ( açılğan ) Kurdish:Central Kurdish:کراوەتەوە ( krawetewe ) Northern Kurdish:vekirî (ku) ,vebûyî (ku) Lao:please add this translation if you can Latin:apertus (la) Latvian:atvērts ,attaisīts ,atdarīts Lithuanian:atidaryta Livonian:vāldiņ Lombard:avert (lmo) ,vèrt Low German:open (nds) ,apen (nds) Luxembourgish:oppen Macedonian:отворен ( otvoren ) Malay:dibuka Malayalam:തുറന്ന ( tuṟanna ) Maltese:miftuħ m ,miftuħa f Maori:tu(w)hera ,ango ,tāmoremore ,poare ,manahua ( of a flower ) ,matatewha ( of eyes ) Maranao:okab Marathi:उघडे ( ughḍe ) Mauritian Creole:ouver Mongolian:нээлттэй ( neelttej ) Nepali:खुल्ला ( khullā ) Norman:ouvèrt Norwegian:Bokmål:åpen (no) Nynorsk:open (nn) Occitan:dobèrt (oc) m Old French:overt Ossetian:гом ( gom ) Ottoman Turkish:آچق ( açık ) ,مفتوح ( meftuh ) ,آپلمش ( açılmış ) Persian:باز (fa) ( bâz ) Plautdietsch:open (nds) Polish:otwarty (pl) Portuguese:aberto (pt) Romanian:deschis (ro) Romansch:( Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Vallader ) avert ,( Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter ) aviert Russian:откры́тый (ru) ( otkrýtyj ) Sardinian:Campidanese:tzaccàu Logudorese:abbertu Sassarese:abértu ,ibarràdu Scottish Gaelic:fosgailte Slovak:otvorený Slovene:odprt (sl) Spanish:abierto (es) Swedish:öppen (sv) Sylheti:ꠈꠥꠟꠣ ( kúla ) Tagalog:bukas (tl) Tamil:திறந்த (ta) ( tiṟanta ) Tausug:ukab Telugu:తెరిచిన ( tericina ) Thai:เปิด (th) ( bpə̀ət ) ,อ้า (th) ( âa ) Tibetan:please add this translation if you can Turkish:açık (tr) Tuvan:ажык ( ajık ) Udi:хъай ( qaj ) Ukrainian:відкри́тий m ( vidkrýtyj ) ,відве́ртий ( vidvértyj ) ,відчи́нений ( vidčýnenyj ) Urdu:کھلا ( khulā ) ,باز ( bāz ) ,واز ( vāz ) ,وا ( vā ) Uzbek:ochiq (uz) Venetan:verto Vietnamese:mở (vi) Walloon:drovou (wa) m ,drouviet m ,å lådje (wa) m or f Waray-Waray:abre Welsh:agored (cy) ,ar agor West Frisian:iepen White Hmong:qhib Yiddish:אָפֿן ( ofn ) Zazaki:akerde (diq) Zhuang:please add this translation if you can
extended, exposed
<-- possibly applies to sense now worded as "Not physically drawn together, folded or contracted". -->
prepared to conduct business
computing: in current use
math: having a free variable
math: which is part of a predefined collection of subsets
music: without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard
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open (third-person singular simple present opens ,present participle opening ,simple past and past participle opened )
To make or become physicallyunobstructed ,uncovered , etc.( transitive , intransitive ) To make or becomeaccessible orclear forpassage by moving from ashut position.Turn the doorknob toopen the door.
The dooropened all by itself.
1913 ,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln , chapter VII, inMr. Pratt’s Patients , New York, N.Y.; London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company ,→OCLC :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 , intransitive ) To make or becomeclear byremoval ofobjects andobstructions , so as to allowpassage ,access , orvisibility .The icebreakeropened the channel.
The ice melted away and the channelopened .
Heopened a path through the undergrowth.
After we left the forest, the countryopened into a wide, flat plain.
1913 ,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln , chapter I, inMr. Pratt’s Patients , New York, N.Y.; London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company ,→OCLC :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 andopened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
( transitive , intransitive ) Tounseal oruncover , or becomeunsealed oruncovered .You canopen your eyes now!
Her eyesopened wide.
1996 , Stephen King,Desperation :He had kept on recording everything then, when he had been sure he was going to die, and he went on recording everything now, when he was suddenly consumed with hate for the boy in his arms and overwhelmed by a desire to put something—his motorcycle key would do nicely — into the interfering little prayboy’s throat andopen him like a can of beer.
( transitive , intransitive ) Tospread ; toexpand into awider orlooser position.toopen a closed fist
toopen matted cotton by separating the fibres
toopen a map, book, scroll, padlock
The floweropened in the sunlight.
Her armsopened in welcome.
( transitive , nursing) To make (abed ) ready for apatient byfolding back thebedcovers .2013 , Susan C. deWit, Patricia A. Williams,Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing , page318 :Follow agency policy, oropen the bed by folding the top linens back.
( transitive , intransitive , poker ) To reveal one's hand.Jeffopens his hand revealing a straight flush.
( transitive , intransitive , engineering , gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position allowing fluid to flow.( especially sports , transitive , intransitive ) To angle (aclub ,bat or other hitting implement)upwards and/or (for aright-hander )clockwise of straight. ( transitive , intransitive ) To cause or allow agap to form or widen.Mudchester Roversopened a sizeable lead on their rivals.
A linkopened under the strain, and the chain came apart.
( transitive , intransitive , electricity , of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position preventing electricity from flowing.To make or becomeavailable for use orinteraction .( transitive , intransitive ) To make or becomeoperative oravailable .Heopened a secret bank account in Switzerland.
We'reopening the phone lines in ten minutes.
Phone lines willopen in ten minutes.
( transitive , intransitive ) Tomake or becomeaccessible tocustomers ,clients orvisitors .I willopen the shop an hour early tomorrow.
The summer fete wasopened by the mayor.
The shopopens at 9:00.
The feteopened an hour late because of bad weather.
1934 ,White Unto Harvest in China: A Survey of the Lutheran United Mission, the China Mission of the N.L.C.A., 1890-1934 [5] ,→OCLC ,page76 :Suiping wasopened as a main station in 1912 when Rev. H. M. Nesse arrived to take charge of the mission work.
( transitive , intransitive ) To make or becomereceptive orsusceptible (to something).Reading this book willopen you to new ideas.
This policy willopen the government to criticism.
As he grew older, heopened to new ways of doing things.
( computing , transitive , intransitive ) To connect to a resource (afile ,document , etc.) forviewing orediting .I can'topen the file because someone else is editing it.
( Manglish , Quebec ) Toturn on ; toswitch on .Pleaseopen the lights, the (electric) fan, the TV.
Tostart orbegin .( transitive or intransitive ) Tostart (anevent oractivity ) as the firstperformer oractor .The show wasopened by a terrible Elvis impersonator.
Our bandopened , and they came on second.
Vermont willopen elk hunting season next week.
( intransitive , with 'for') Toprecede another as aperformer at aconcert orshow .Our bandopened for Nirvana.
( intransitive ) Of an event, activity etc., tostart or getunderway .The meetingopened with a statement from the chairman.
( transitive ) Tobring up ,broach .I don't want toopen that subject.
( transitive ) Toenter upon,begin .toopen a discussion
toopen fire upon an enemy
toopen trade, or correspondence
toopen a case in court, or a meeting
( computing , transitive , intransitive ) To start running (a program or application, especially one with a screen-based interface).Click this icon toopen Microsoft Word.
( intransitive , cricket ) Tobegin aside 'sinnings as one of the first twobatsmen .( intransitive , poker ) Tobet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.After the first two players fold, Julieopens for $5.
( transitive ) To make anopen relationship ormarriage , i.e., with possible additional relationships.2009 , Jenny Block, “You Can’t Run Out of Love”, inOpen: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage , 2nd edition, Berkeley, Calif.:Seal Press ,→ISBN ,page172 :He assured me, unequivocally, that he was, and that he rather enjoyed the side benefits of my trysts: I was happier and living more honestly, as well as off his back about many of the issues that had been troublesome for me before weopened our relationship.
2018 , Rhea Orion, quoting Annika, “Case Excerpt: Annika ”, inA Therapist’s Guide to Consensual Nonmonogamy: Polyamory, Swinging, and Open Marriage , New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxfordshire:Routledge ,→ISBN , part II (Issues and Interventions), chapter 9 (Sex and Consensual Nonmonogamy):I wouldn’t do it unless there is a reason for it, I wouldn’topen a marriage just for fun. I think it’s too dangerous. I know I’m a monogamous type of person—I like just one person at a time; actually sleeping with more than one person in separate relationships is too confusing.
2023 , James K. Beggan, “How Do We Make Decisions?”, inThe Decisions toOpen a Relationship: To Three or Not to Three , Lanham, Md.:Lexington Books ,→ISBN ,page90 :Social situations involved inopening relationships are uncertain, rather than risky, environments. Although some people might say, “Absolutely not,” it may be difficult to predict the likelihood people will respond favorably to the prospect, in part because a wide range of unknown or unknowable factors may drive their willingness.
( obsolete ) Todisclose ; toreveal ; tointerpret ; toexplain .1622 ,Francis Bacon ,The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh :The kingopened himself to some of his council, that he was sorry for the earl's death.
Due to the near-opposite meanings relating to fluid flow and electrical components, these usages are deprecated in safety-critical instructions, with the wordsto on orto off preferred, so instead ofOpen valve A; open switch B useTurn valve A to ON; turn switch B to OFF . ( antonym(s) of “ to make accessible ” ) : bare ,shut ( to make accessible ) : crack ( open a bit ) to make something accessible
—see also draw Afrikaans:oopmaak Aklanon:buka' Albanian:çel (sq) ,hap (sq) American Sign Language:( with relevant classifier, e.g. a swinging door ) FlatB@Thumb-PalmForward-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-PalmForward FlatB@NearSideNeckhigh-PalmAcross-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-PalmForward ,( a gate ) FlatB@TipFinger-FingerAcross-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-FingerAcross FlatB@NearSideNeckhigh-FingerBack-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-FingerAcross ,( a box ) FlatB@Thumb-PalmDown-A@CenterChesthigh FlatB@SideShoulderHigh-PalmAcross-A@CenterChesthigh ,( a book ) FlatB@Palm-PalmAcross-FlatB@CenterChesthigh-PalmAcross FlatB@Ulnar-PalmUp-FlatB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp Andi:архинну ( arxinnu ) Arabic:فَتَحَ (ar) ( fataḥa ) Egyptian Arabic:فتح ( fataḥ ) Moroccan Arabic:حل ( ḥall ) ,فتح ( ftaḥ ) Aragonese:ubrir (an) Armenian:բացել (hy) ( bacʻel ) ,բանալ (hy) ( banal ) Aromanian:dishcljid Assamese:খুল ( khul ) Asturian:abrir Avar:рагьизе ( rahize ) Azerbaijani:açmaq (az) Bashkir:асыу ( asıw ) Basque:ireki ,zabaldu Belarusian:адкрыва́ць impf ( adkryvácʹ ) ,адкры́ць pf ( adkrýcʹ ) ,адчыня́ць ( adčynjácʹ ) ,адчыні́ць pf ( adčynícʹ ) Bengali:খোলা (bn) ( khōla ) Bulgarian:отва́рям (bg) impf ( otvárjam ) ,отво́ря pf ( otvórja ) Burmese:ဖွင့် (my) ( hpwang. ) Catalan:obrir (ca) ,descloure (ca) Cherokee:ᎠᏍᏚᎢᎠ ( asduia ) Chickasaw:tiwa ( intransitive ) ,tiwwi ( transitive ) Chinese:Cantonese:開 / 开 ( hoi1 ) Mandarin:開 / 开 (zh) ( kāi ) ,打開 / 打开 (zh) ( dǎkāi ) Czech:otevírat (cs) impf ,otevřít (cs) pf Dalmatian:apiar ,aprer ,apriar ,aprier Danish:åbne (da) ,lukke op Dutch:openen (nl) ,opendoen (nl) ,openmaken (nl) Egyptian: (wn ), (wpj ) Esperanto:malfermi (eo) Estonian:avama (et) Ewe:ʋu Faroese:opna ,lata upp Fataluku:loke Finnish:avata (fi) French:ouvrir (fr) Friulian:vierzi ,avierzi ,viergi ,aviergi Gagauz:açmaa Galician:abrir (gl) Georgian:გაღება ( gaɣeba ) German:öffnen (de) ,aufmachen (de) Greek:ανοίγω (el) ( anoígo ) Ancient:ἀνοίγω ( anoígō ) ,ἀνοίγνυμι ( anoígnumi ) ,οἴγω ( oígō ) Greenlandic:ammarpaa Guaraní:pe'a Haitian Creole:ouvri ,louvri Hebrew:פָּתַח (he) ( patákh ) Hindi:खोलना (hi) ( kholnā ) Hungarian:nyit (hu) ,kinyit (hu) ,tár (hu) ,kitár (hu) ,tát (hu) ,kitát (hu) Icelandic:opna (is) Ido:apertar (io) Indonesian:buka (id) ,membuka (id) Ingrian:avata Interlingua:aperir Irish:oscail Old Irish:as·oilgi Italian:aprire (it) ,schiudere ,dischiudere (it) Japanese:開ける (ja) ( あける, akeru ) ,開く (ja) ( ひらく, hiraku ) Javanese:mbukak Kabuverdianu:abri ,abrí Kaitag:ивхьара ( ivxara ) Kambera:bunggah Kazakh:ашу ( aşu ) Khmer:បើក (km) ( baək ) Kituba:kangula ,fungula Korean:열다 (ko) ( yeolda ) ,펴다 (ko) ( pyeoda ) ( e.g. a book ) Kumyk:ачмакъ ( açmaq ) Kurdish:Northern Kurdish:vekirin (ku) Kyrgyz:ач- ( ac- ) ,ачуу (ky) ( acuu ) Lao:ເປີດ ( pœ̄t ) Latin:aperio (la) Latvian:atvērt (lv) Ligurian:arvrî Lingala:fungola ,kangola Lithuanian:atidaryti Low German:German Low German:apendoon ,apenmaken Macedonian:отвори ( otvori ) Makasae:lo'e Malay:buka ,membuka Maltese:fetaħ Manchu:ᠮᡳᠯᠠᡵᠠᠪᡠᠮᠪᡳ ( milarabumbi ) Mansaka:bokas Manx:foshil Maori:are ,puare ,whakatu(w)hera ,matata ,tīwara ( a container ) ,tiora ( a shellfish ) ,uaki ,huaki ( a door or cupboard ) ,kowhera ( shellfish ) ,kūwhera ( refers to body parts only ) ,hāmama ( refers to the mouth ) ,pāoraora ( shellfish ) ,whakahāmama ( of the mouth ) Marathi:उघडणे ( ughaḍṇe ) Mauritian Creole:ouver Minangkabau:buko (min) Mongolian:нээх (mn) ( neex ) ,задлах (mn) ( zadlax ) ,онгойлгох ( ongojlgox ) Nanai:нихэли- ( niheli- ) Neapolitan:arapì ,arape Nepali:खोल्नु ( kholnu ) Ngazidja Comorian:uɓua Norman:ouvri Norwegian:åpne (no) ,lukke opp Occitan:dobrir (oc) Old French:ovrir Old Javanese:wĕnga Old Portuguese:abrir Old Turkic:𐰲 ( ač- ) Oromo:banuu Persian:گشودن (fa) ( gošudan ) ,باز کردن (fa) ( bâz kardan ) Polish:otwierać (pl) impf ,otworzyć (pl) pf Portuguese:abrir (pt) Quechua:kichay ,kicai ,kichariy Romanian:deschide (ro) Romansch:( Rumantsch Grischun, Puter ) avrir ,( Sursilvan ) arver ,( Sutsilvan ) earver ,( Sutsilvan ) duvrir ,( Surmiran ) darveir ,( Vallader ) rivir ,( Vallader ) drivir Russian:открыва́ть (ru) impf ( otkryvátʹ ) ,откры́ть (ru) pf ( otkrýtʹ ) ,отворя́ть (ru) impf ( otvorjátʹ ) ,отвори́ть (ru) pf ( otvorítʹ ) ( a door only ) Sango:lungula Sanskrit:उद्घाटयति ( udghāṭayati ) Sardinian:abbèrrere ,abèrriri ,apèrrere Scottish Gaelic:fosgail Serbo-Croatian:отво̀рити ,otvòriti (sh) Shan:ၽုၺ်ႇ (shn) ( phùi ) ,ပိုတ်ႇ (shn) ( pùet ) Sicilian:apriri (scn) ,iàpriri (scn) ,jàpriri (scn) ,gràpiri (scn) Sinhalese:අරිනවා ( arinawā ) Slovak:otvárať impf ,otvoriť pf Slovene:odpreti (sl) Southern Altai:ачар ( ačar ) Spanish:abrir (es) ,descorrer (es) ( curtains ) Swahili:fungua (sw) Swedish:öppna (sv) Sylheti:ꠈꠥꠟꠣ ( kúla ) Tagalog:buksan (tl) Tajik:кушодан (tg) ( kušodan ) ,боз кардан ( boz kardan ) ,во кардан ( vo kardan ) Tamil:திற (ta) ( tiṟa ) Tày:ả ,bí Telugu:తెరచు (te) ( teracu ) Tetum:loke Thai:เปิด (th) ( bpə̀ət ) Tibetan:please add this translation if you can Tocharian B:ru- Turkish:açmak (tr) Turkmen:açmak (tk) Ugaritic:𐎔𐎚𐎈 ( ptḥ ) Ukrainian:відкрива́ти (uk) impf ( vidkryváty ) ,відкри́ти pf ( vidkrýty ) ,( a door, a window ) відчиня́ти impf ( vidčynjáty ) ,відчини́ти pf ( vidčynýty ) Urdu:کھولنا ( kholnā ) ,باز کرنا ( bāz karnā ) ,واز کرنا ( vāz karnā ) ,وا کرنا ( vā karnā ) Uzbek:ochmoq (uz) Venetan:vèrzar ,verxar ,averzir ,avèrzer ,avèrxer ,vèrxer ,vèrdher Vietnamese:mở (vi) Walloon:drovi (wa) Welsh:agor (cy) White Hmong:qhib Yakut:ас ( as ) Yiddish:עפֿענען ( efenen ) Zazaki:akerden ,wekerden Zhuang:please add this translation if you can
poker: to reveal one's hand
computing: to connect to a resource
to make accessible to customers
to begin conducting business
cricket: to begin a side's innings
poker: to bet before any other player
to become open
Afrikaans:oopmaak American Sign Language:( with relevant classifier, e.g. of a swinging door ) FlatB@Thumb-PalmForward-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-PalmForward FlatB@NearSideNeckhigh-PalmAcross-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-PalmForward ,( of a gate ) FlatB@TipFinger-FingerAcross-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-FingerAcross FlatB@NearSideNeckhigh-FingerBack-FlatB@FromCenterNeckhigh-FingerAcross ,( of a box ) FlatB@Thumb-PalmDown-A@CenterChesthigh FlatB@SideShoulderHigh-PalmAcross-A@CenterChesthigh ,( of a book ) FlatB@Palm-PalmAcross-FlatB@CenterChesthigh-PalmAcross FlatB@Ulnar-PalmUp-FlatB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp Arabic:اِنْفَتَحَ ( infataḥa ) Armenian:բացվել (hy) ( bacʻvel ) Bashkir:асылыу ( asılıw ) Bulgarian:отварям се ( otvarjam se ) Czech:(pleaseverify ) otevřít se Danish:åbnes Dutch:opengaan (nl) Esperanto:malfermiĝi Estonian:avanema Evenki:нив- ( ņiw- ) Ewe:ʋu Finnish:aueta (fi) ,avautua (fi) French:s'ouvrir (fr) German:sichöffnen Greek:ανοίγω (el) ( anoígo ) Hindi:खुलना (hi) ( khulnā ) Hungarian:nyílik (hu) ,tárul (hu) ,kinyílik (hu) ,megnyílik (hu) Ingrian:avveta ,avahua Irish:oscail Korean:열리다 (ko) ( yeollida ) Kurdish:Central Kurdish:کردنەوە ( kirdnewe ) Northern Kurdish:vebûn (ku) Latin:aperio (la) Latvian:atvērt (lv) Manchu:ᠮᡳᠯᠠᡵᠠᠮᠪᡳ ( milarambi ) Manx:foshil Maore Comorian:udziɓua Maori:manahua ( referring to a flower ) ,ngaora ( of a flower ) ,ngawhā ( of a flower ) ,(whe)whera ( a book ) Marathi:उघडणे ( ughaḍṇe ) Ngazidja Comorian:uɓuha Norwegian:åpnes Persian:باز شُدَن (fa) ( bâz šodan ) Polish:otwierać się (pl) Portuguese:abrir (pt) Romansch:( Rumantsch Grischun ) s'avrir ,( Sursilvan ) sarver ,( Sutsilvan ) searver ,( Sutsilvan ) saduvrir ,( Surmiran ) sa darveir ,( Puter ) as avrir ,( Vallader ) as rivir ,( Vallader ) as drivir Russian:открыва́ться (ru) impf ( otkryvátʹsja ) ,откры́ться (ru) pf ( otkrýtʹsja ) ,отворя́ться (ru) impf ( otvorjátʹsja ) ,отвори́ться (ru) pf ( otvorítʹsja ) ( a door only ) Scottish Gaelic:fosgail Slovene:( se ) odpreti (sl) Spanish:abrir (es) Swahili:kufunguka Swedish:öppnas (sv) ,öppna sig Tamil:திற (ta) ( tiṟa ) Thai:เปิด (th) ( bpə̀ət ) Urdu:کھلنا ( khulnā ) ,باز ہونا ( bāz honā ) ,واز ہونا ( vāz honā ) ,وا ہونا ( vā honā ) Uzbek:ochilmoq (uz)
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open (plural opens )
( in the definite ) Open orunobstructed space; anexposed location .I can't believe you left the lawnmower out inthe open when you knew it was going to rain this afternoon!
Wary of hunters, the fleeing deer kept well out ofthe open , dodging instead from thicket to thicket.
( in the definite ) Public knowledge orscrutiny ;full view .We have got to bring this company's corrupt business practices intothe open .
( electronics ) A defect in anelectrical circuit preventingcurrent from flowing.The electrician found theopen in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.
Asports event in which anybody cancompete , especially or originally irrespective ofamateur orprofessional status. The act of something being opened, such as an e-mail message.2016 , Ian Dodson,The Art of Digital Marketing , page144 :The total number ofopens from original, or unique, subscribers.
public knowledge; (to bring into) the open
FromDutch openen , fromMiddle Dutch ōpenen , fromOld Dutch opanon , fromProto-Germanic *upanōną .
open (present open ,present participle openende ,past participle geopen )
( transitive ) toopen Borrowed fromEnglish open .
open m (plural open or òpens )
( sports ) open FromMiddle Dutch ōpen , fromOld Dutch opan , fromProto-West Germanic *opan , fromProto-Germanic *upanaz .
open (comparative opener ,superlative openst )
open , notclosed Antonyms: gesloten ,dicht ,toe open forbusiness Antonyms: gesloten ,dicht open ,receptive Antonym: gesloten See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
open
inflection ofopenen : first-person singular present indicative (in case ofinversion )second-person singular present indicative imperative open
genitive singular ofope Borrowed fromEnglish open .
open m (plural opens )
open ;open tournament FromOld Dutch opan , fromProto-West Germanic *opan .
ōpen
open , notclosed open ,accessible freely accessible,public This adjective needs aninflection-table template .
FromOld English open , fromProto-West Germanic *opan .
open (comparative more open ,superlative most open )
open 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer ,The Canterbury Tales . General Prologue: 9-11.And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght withopen eye- (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages); And many little birds make melody That sleep through all the night withopen eye (So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage) FromOld Norse opinn , fromProto-Germanic *upanaz . CompareFaroese opin ,Icelandic opinn ,Swedish öppen ,Danish åben ,Dutch open ,Low German apen ,open ,German offen ,West Frisian iepen ,English open .
open (neuter ope or opent ,definite singular and plural opne ,comparative opnare ,indefinite superlative opnast ,definite superlative opnaste )
open Kvifor er døraopen ? Why is the dooropen ? A common, but unofficial, feminine form isopa (“ei opa dør”, comparelita andinga ). Up until2012 ,opi was an optional official form, but was removed along with other forms likeliti andingi .
“open” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .FromProto-West Germanic *opan , fromProto-Germanic *upanaz .
Originally a past participle ofProto-Germanic *ūpaną ( “ to lift up, open ” ) . Related toOld English upp ( “ up ” ) . Cognate withOld Frisian open ,Old Saxon opan ,Old High German offan , andOld Norse opinn .
open
open 11th century , unknown translator, the Old EnglishApollonius of Tyre Þā ġeseah hē ānne nacodne cnapan ġeond þā strǣte rinnan. Sē wæs mid ele ġesmiered and mid sċīetan beġierded, and cleopode mid miċelre stefne and cwæþ, "Ġehīeraþ ġē ċeasterwaran, ġehīeraþ ġē ælþēodiġe, friġe and þēowe, æðele and unæðele: sē bæþstede isopen !" Then he saw a naked boy running through the street. His body was smeared with oil and he was wearing a sheet around his waist, when he called out in a loud voice, "Attention citizens, attention foreigners, free and slave, noble and ignoble: the bathhouse isopen !" Declension ofopen — Strong
open
open Borrowed fromEnglish open .
open n (plural openuri )
open ( sports event ) open in Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a , Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN Borrowed fromGerman Low German open . CompareKashubian ôpen andGreater Polish andMasovian Polish apem .
open (notcomparable ,indeclinable ,no derived adverb )
open open (notcomparable )
open Borrowed fromEnglish open .
IPA (key ) : /ˈopen/ [ˈo.pẽn] Rhymes:-open Syllabification:o‧pen open m (plural opens or open )
( sports ) open