opening
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
opening/ˈəʊpnɪŋ/
▶noun
- 1 a space or gap allowing passage or access.
- 2 a beginning; an initial part.
■ a ceremony at which a building, exhibition, etc. is declared to be open.
■ N. Amer. a premiere of a play, film, etc.
- 3 an opportunity to achieve something.
■ an available job.
'opening' also found in these Oxford entries:
after
- angelus
- anthesis
- anus
- aperture
- arch
- armhole
- atresia
- Ave Maria
- bag
- ball valve
- blanking plate
- break
- breastsummer
- cardia
- carry
- catheter
- chink
- close
- coelenterate
- colostomy
- concertina
- concha
- convenience store
- cowrie
- crack
- cranny
- creep
- crevice
- crown
- curtain-raiser
- cut
- de profundis
- deuterostome
- Dies Irae
- dilatation
- drain
- drop capital
- dummy
- earhole
- embrasure
- enterostomy
- entrance
- epiglottis
- episiotomy
- excurrent
- exocrine
- eye-opener
- Fatiha
- fauces
