Definition of Opening

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Opening

of Open

The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech.

A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole.

Hence: A vacant place; an opportunity; as, an opening for business.

A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; as, oak openings.

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Opening Quotations

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
Ronald Reagan

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
Ronald Reagan

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Winston Churchill

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Robert Frost

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
Henry David Thoreau

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
George Orwell

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.
Milton Friedman

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
Andy Rooney

Opening Translations

opening in Dutch is mond, opening, gat
opening in Italian is accensione
opening in Latin is foramen, foris, os
opening in Portuguese is abertura
opening in Spanish is abertura

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