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Openers
- noun - a hand tool used for opening sealed containers (bottles or cans)
- a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens; "children are talented undoers of their shoelaces"
- the first event in a series; "she played Chopin for her opener"; "the season's opener was a game against the Yankees"
Opening
- verb - a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise
- a possible alternative; "bankruptcy is always a possibility"
- a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess; "he memorized all the important chess openings"
- a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made; "they left a small opening for the cat at the bottom of the door"
- afford access to; "the door opens to the patio"; "The French doors give onto a terrace"
- an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity; "the orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart"
- an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
- an open or empty space in or between things; "there was a small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a gap in the wall"
- become available; "an opportunity opened up"
- become open; "The door opened"
- becoming open or being made open; "the opening of his
Operand
- noun - a quantity upon which a mathematical operation is performed
Operant
- adjective - having influence or producing an effect; "many emotional determinants at work"; "an operant conscience"
Operate
- verb - direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"
- handle and cause to function; "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever"
- happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?"
- keep engaged; "engaged the gears"
- perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense
- perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
- perform surgery on; "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life"
Opercle
- - Any one of the bony plates which support the gill covers of fishes; an opercular bone.
Operons
- noun - a segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene
Operose
- adjective - characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
Opetide
- - Open time; -- applied to different things: (a) The early spring, or the time when flowers begin opening. [Archaic] Nares. (b) The time between Epiphany and Ash Wednesday wherein marriages were formerly solemnized publicly in churches. [Eng.] (c) The time after harvest when the common fields are open to all kinds of stock.