Opening in a sentence as a noun

7 now that she's opening her own place.

Funds are safe, it's just a question of opening the pipes properly to let them flow normally.

He explained that the new CEO would find opening the letters in order most useful when a serious event took place.

The opening line follows the boilerplate trend of acquisition posts.

It was eye-opening to learn just what kind of hourly battle they face to keep spam out of their systems and the ways they are trying to combat it.

There is nothing stopping them from opening a brokerage in their most popular markets and simply copying Redfin's model.

Opening in a sentence as an adjective

For me, the most crucial and eye opening is the stark contrast of the relatively open ecosystem we had back in 2005 to what we have today.

" In the "you've been there for me, so you're a good guy, so I can feel comfortable about opening up to you about subjects you only bring up with your good friends," sense.

For the opening shot of Armageddon with the astroid hitting earth I used 20,000 point lights to represent secondary debris reentering the atmosphere.

If you look at the structure of the film you can see Nolan using the opening and closing heist sequences as allegorical bookends to demonstrate Cobb's character development.

Life is full of little "just push through" moments: approaching a stranger, hanging out your washing, sitting down at your desk without opening reddit, being bothered to cook, not deleting your nearly-written comment.

After a while, as the go-go years of the 1980s and 1990s culminated eventually in the tech bubble of 2000, a funny pattern emerged by which a big-firm billing was almost in the nature of an "opening offer.

Opening definitions

noun

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"

noun

a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise

noun

becoming open or being made open; "the opening of his arms was the sign I was waiting for"

noun

the first performance (as of a theatrical production); "the opening received good critical reviews"

noun

the act of opening something; "the ray of light revealed his cautious opening of the door"

noun

opportunity especially for employment or promotion; "there is an opening in the sales department"

noun

the initial part of the introduction; "the opening established the basic theme"

noun

a possible alternative; "bankruptcy is always a possibility"

See also: possibility

noun

an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity; "the orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart"

See also: orifice porta

noun

a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made; "they left a small opening for the cat at the bottom of the door"

noun

an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

See also: hatchway scuttle

noun

a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess; "he memorized all the important chess openings"

noun

the first of a series of actions

See also: initiative

adjective

first or beginning; "the memorable opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth"; "the play's opening scene"