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What does open mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word open? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (not comparable) not closed; accessible; unimpeded
  2. Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
  3. (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
  4. (comparable) Receptive.
  5. (not comparable) Public
  6. (not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
  7. (mathematics) Having a free variable.
  8. (mathematics) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of
  9. (walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.
  10. (computing) In current use; mapped to part of memory.
  11. (business) Not fulfilled.
  12. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
  13. (music) Without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard.
  14. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
  15. (phonetics) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
  16. (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
  17. (phonetics) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
  18. (computing) Made public, usable with a free licence.
  19. (medicine) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To make something accessible or remove an obstacle to its being accessible.
  2. (transitive) To bring up (a topic).
  3. (transitive) To make accessible to customers or clients.
  4. (transitive) To start (a campaign).
  5. (intransitive) To become open.
  6. (intransitive) To begin conducting business.
  7. To enter upon; to begin.
  8. (intransitive, cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
  9. (intransitive, poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
  10. (transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
  11. (computing) To load into memory for viewing or editing.
  12. To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
  13. (obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
Noun
  1. A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
  2. (electronics) a wire that is broken midway.
  3. (the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
  4. (the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
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