(a.) Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead.
(a.) Free to be used, enjoyed, visited, or the like; not private; public; unrestricted in use; as, an open library, museum, court, or other assembly; liable to the approach, trespass, or attack of any one; unprotected; exposed.
(a.) Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view; accessible; as, an open tract; the open sea.
(a.) Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded; as, an open hand; open arms; an open flower; an open prospect.
(a.) Without reserve or false pretense; sincere; characterized by sincerity; unfeigned; frank; also, generous; liberal; bounteous; -- applied to personal appearance, or character, and to the expression of thought and feeling, etc.
(a.) Not concealed or secret; not hidden or disguised; exposed to view or to knowledge; revealed; apparent; as, open schemes or plans; open shame or guilt.
(a.) Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing water ways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; -- used of the weather or the climate; as, an open season; an open winter.
(a.) Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration; as, an open account; an open question; to keep an offer or opportunity open.
(a.) Free; disengaged; unappropriated; as, to keep a day open for any purpose; to be open for an engagement.
(a.) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; -- said of vowels; as, the an far is open as compared with the a in say.
(a.) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure, as in uttering s.
(a.) Not closed or stopped with the finger; -- said of the string of an instrument, as of a violin, when it is allowed to vibrate throughout its whole length.
(a.) Produced by an open string; as, an open tone.
(n.) Open or unobstructed space; clear land, without trees or obstructions; open ocean; open water.
(v. t.) To make or set open; to render free of access; to unclose; to unbar; to unlock; to remove any fastening or covering from; as, to open a door; to open a box; to open a room; to open a letter.
(v. t.) To spread; to expand; as, to open the hand.
(v. t.) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
(v. t.) To make known; to discover; also, to render available or accessible for settlements, trade, etc.
(v. t.) To enter upon; to begin; as, to open a discussion; to open fire upon an enemy; to open trade, or correspondence; to open a case in court, or a meeting.
(v. t.) To loosen or make less compact; as, to open matted cotton by separating the fibers.
(v. i.) To unclose; to form a hole, breach, or gap; to be unclosed; to be parted.
(v. i.) To expand; to spread out; to be disclosed; as, the harbor opened to our view.
(v. i.) To begin; to commence; as, the stock opened at par; the battery opened upon the enemy.
(v. i.) To bark on scent or view of the game.
Example Sentences:
(1) says Gregg Wallace opening the new series of Celebrity MasterChef (Mon-Fri, 2.15pm, BBC1).
(2) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
(3) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(4) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
(5) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
(6) By hybridization studies, three plasmids in two forms (open circular and supercoiled) were detected in the strain A24.
(7) It is the only fully-fledged casino to open in the region, outside Lebanon.
(8) Sixty-six patients were followed for 12 months in an open safety study.
(9) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(10) The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effects of cromakalim (BRL 34915), a potent drug from a new class of drugs characterized as "K+ channel openers", on the electrical activity of human skeletal muscle.
(11) An opening wedge osteotomy is then directed posterior-dorsal to anterior-plantar, to effectively plantarflex the posterior aspect of the calcaneus.
(12) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(13) The decline in the frequency of serious complications was primarily due to a decrease in the proportion of patients with open fractures treated with plate osteosynthesis from nearly 50% to 19%.
(14) At 100 microM-ACh the apparent open time became shorter probably due to channel blockade by ACh molecules.
(15) 'The French see it as an open and shut case,' says a Paris-based diplomat.
(16) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
(17) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(18) The data indicate greater legitimacy and openness in discussing holocaust-related issues in the homes of ex-partisans than in the homes of ex-prisoners in concentration camps.
(19) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
(20) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.
Oven
Definition:
(n.) A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether fixed or portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now, a chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting.
Example Sentences:
(1) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
(2) Within the enamel department, workers who handled conveyer hooks used to suspend range tops as they passed through the oven were at greatest risk (rate ratio (RR) = 12.44, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 2.90-53.35).
(3) The compressive strength of various artificial stones were tested using air, oven, and microwave oven drying methods to compare the three for drying refractory casts.
(4) The 3 gravimetric assays (oven-drying, freeze-drying or freeze-drying as well as oven-drying) had a very high precision (coefficients of variation (CV) 0.2-0.4%) and were easy to perform.
(5) An oligonucleotide probe, named a panprobe, containing this sequence was used to assay the degree of lysis of bacterial colonies on filter paper heated in a microwave oven and subsequently treated with NaOH.
(6) Frozen colostrum thawed in a microwave oven should provide a reasonable source of colostrum when fresh high quality colostrum is not available.
(7) Davis had earlier declined the privilege of specifying his final supper, so instead was given the institution's choice of grilled cheeseburgers, oven browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape beverage.
(8) These are very early days in the smart homes business: the moment when your car will tell your oven to switch on when GPS indicates that you’re 15 minutes away will remain a marketing fantasy for the tech industry ( and an April Fool’s Day joke for BMW ) for a long time to come.
(9) The entire unit can be cured in a microwave oven in 30 minutes.
(10) 3 Remove the bases from the oven and sprinkle on the mozzarella, followed by the mushrooms, olives, pepperoni and ham.
(11) The outcome variable, VOC emission rate, was examined relative to selected independent variables: latex type, latex amount, makeup air into the drying oven, residence time in the drying oven, and their interactions.
(12) Also, coke oven workers had slightly higher adduct values than age, sex and smoking matched controls.
(13) If you only have an 20cm tin you can use that instead, but don't use all the batter – about 80% will suffice – otherwise you'll end up with a volcanic overspill, cake soldered to the floor of the oven and a frayed temper.
(14) This simplified reaction performed using a microwave-oven procedure takes only 30 s and is useful in demonstrating mucin as well as mucin-containing cells.
(15) A digestion method applying the use of microwave ovens for irradiating samples in Teflon digesters was developed.
(16) Thiocyanate-assimilatig bacterium, TK 21, was isolated from activated sludge used for the treatment of thiocyanate contained in coke-oven liquor.
(17) At 6 h after surgery or injury, the spinal cords were rapidly cut into 4 mm segments, weighed to obtain tissue wet weights (W), dried for 14-16 h at 97 degrees C in a vacuum oven (30 mmHg), and reweighed for tissue dry weights (D).
(18) At this stage, remove from the oven and set aside to rest.
(19) Mix the halved sprouts with the oil and a quarter-teaspoon of salt, then spread out on an oven tray lined with baking paper and roast for 10 minutes, until cooked through and golden-brown but still crunchy, then remove from the oven.
(20) Should, then, oven manufacturers pay electricity companies for all that burdensome work they have to do to keep ovens working – especially when lightbulbs are so low-strain?