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As adjectives the difference between open and corkscrew

is that open is (not comparable) which is not closed; accessible; unimpeded; as, an open gate while corkscrew is having the tightly winding shape of a corkscrew.

As verbs the difference between open and corkscrew

is that open is to make something accessible or remove an obstacle to its being accessible while corkscrew is to wind or twist in the manner of a corkscrew; to move with much horizontal and vertical shifting.

As nouns the difference between open and corkscrew

is that open is a sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the australian open while corkscrew is an implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.

open

English

(wikipedia open)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Which is not closed; accessible; unimpeded; as, an open gate.
  • * 1908, (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows) , Chapter 2
  • The open road, the dusty highway
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
  • Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
  • an open''' hand; an '''open''' flower; an '''open prospect
  • * Dryden
  • Each, with open arms, embraced her chosen knight.
  • (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
  • (comparable) Receptive.
  • * Bible, Acts xix. 33
  • If Demetrius have a matter against any man, the law is open and there are deputies.
  • * Shakespeare
  • The service that I truly did his life, / Hath left me open to all injuries.
  • (not comparable) Public; as, an open letter, an open declaration.
  • * Shakespeare
  • His thefts are too open .
  • * Milton
  • That I may find him, and with secret gaze / Or open admiration him behold.
  • (not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • with aspect open , shall erect his head
  • * Shakespeare
  • The Moor is of a free and open nature.
  • * Addison
  • The French are always open , familiar, and talkative.
  • (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable.
  • (mathematics, topology, of a set) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X.
  • In current use; mapped to part of memory.
  • (business) Not fulfilled.
  • Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
  • an open question
    to keep an offer or opportunity open
  • (music, stringed instruments) Without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard.
  • 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.
  • an open winter
    (Francis Bacon)
  • (phonetics) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
  • (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
  • Synonyms
    * (not closed) accessible, unimpeded
    Antonyms
    * (accessible) closed, shut
    Derived terms
    (Terms derived from the adjective "open") * break open * clopen * drop open * half-open * keep a weather eye open * keep an eye open * lay open * open-air * open-and-shut * open-armed * open-arse * open bar * open book * open cluster * open-collar * open compound * open content * open design * open-ended * open-eyed * open-face * open-faced * open fireplace * open goal * open-handed/openhanded * open heart surgery * open-hearted * open-hearth * open house * open interest * open letter * open listing * open loop * open marriage * open matte * open mic * open mind * open-mouthed * open outcry * open outsourcing * open-plan * open problem * open proxy * open sandwich * open sea * open season * open secret * open sight * open source * open system * open water * open-work * openable * openside * Open University * wide open * with open arms

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make something accessible or remove an obstacle to its being accessible.
  • * , chapter=7
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=20 citation , passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}
  • To bring up (a topic).
  • To make accessible to customers or clients.
  • To start (a campaign).
  • To become .
  • * , chapter=1
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
  • To begin conducting business.
  • To enter upon; to begin.
  • to open''' a discussion; to '''open''' fire upon an enemy; to '''open''' trade, or correspondence; to '''open a case in court, or a meeting
  • (cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
  • (poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
  • (transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
  • To load into memory for viewing or editing.
  • To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
  • to open a closed fist
    to open matted cotton by separating the fibres
  • (obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • The king opened himself to some of his council, that he was sorry for the earl's death.
  • * Bible, Jer. xx. 12
  • Unto thee have I opened my cause.
    Antonyms
    * (to make accessible) close, shut
    Derived terms
    * open a can of whoop ass * open fire * open one's big mouth * open sesame * open shop * open the attack * open the face * open up * reopen *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
  • (electronics) a wire that is broken midway.
  • The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.
  • (with the ) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
  • I can't believe you left the lawnmower out in the open when you knew it was going to rain this afternoon!
    Wary of hunters, the fleeing deer kept well out of the open , dodging instead from thicket to thicket.
  • (with the ) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
  • We have got to bring this company's corrupt business practices into the open .

    Statistics

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    corkscrew

    English

    Noun

  • An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.
  • I opened the wine with a corkscrew .
  • * {{quote-book, 1720, , chapter=The Bottle-Scrue, Poems on Several Occasions, page=113, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=Uw8UAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA113
  • , passage=There stood presented to his sight, Or seem'd to stand, the God of wine,
  • * {{quote-journal, 1999, James Lighthill, Biofluiddynamics: A Survey, Contemporary Mathematics, volume=141, page=11, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=nCvG2t02114C&pg=PA11
  • , passage=A corkscrew is designed so that when it is turned it creates effectively a helical undulation pushing it into the cork, whereas rotation in the opposite sense pulls it out.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 2006, Costas Katsigris & Chris Thomas, The Bar and Beverage Book, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=gtKOyU9ci1MC&pg=PA152, page=152, edition=4th ed.
  • , passage=A two-prong or ah-so corkscrew with sheath.}}
  • The screw-shaped worm of a typical corkscrew.
  • * {{quote-book, 1898, , First Principles of a New System of Philosophy citation
  • , passage=A bubble rising rapidly in water describes a spiral closely resembling a corkscrew .}}
  • (boxing, martial arts) A type of sharp, twisting punch, often one thrown close and from the side.
  • * {{quote-book, 2002, Darin Strauss, The Real McCoy, page=42 citation
  • , passage=
  • (amusement rides) A type of inversion used in roller coasters.
  • * {{quote-news, 1987, September, Tim Cole, Killer Coasters, Popular Mechanics citation
  • , passage=A corkscrew has a 90° turn just prior to the loop and a 90° turn just afterward.}}

    Synonyms

    * (implement for opening bottles) bottle screw, cork puller

    Hypernyms

    * bottle opener

    Coordinate terms

    * (other types of bottle opener) church key, wine key

    Hyponyms

    * (types of corkscrew bottle opener) waiter's friend; wing corkscrew; butler's friend

    Derived terms

    * corkscrewlike * corkscrewy * corkscrew flower * corkscrew grass * corkscrew stroke

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having the tightly winding shape of a corkscrew.
  • * 1841 , , chapter I
  • Then the old gentleman spun himself round with velocity in the opposite direction, continued to spin until his long cloak was all wound neatly about him, clapped his cap on his head, very much on one side (for it could not stand upright without going through the ceiling), gave an additional twist to his corkscrew mustaches, and replied with perfect coolness.
  • * 1885 ,
  • All the heat of a decade of fierce Indian summers is stored in the pitch-black, polished walls of the corkscrew staircase.

    Synonyms

    * (having a tightly winding shape) helical

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wind or twist in the manner of a corkscrew; to move with much horizontal and vertical shifting.
  • * 1832 , , chapter 35
  • Into the tea–room Mr. Pickwick turned; and catching sight of him, Mr. Bantam corkscrewed his way through the crowd and welcomed him with ecstasy.
  • * 1916 , , chapter 10
  • The street corkscrewed endlessly. Sometimes it seemed to stop; then it found a hole in the opposing masonry and edged its way in.
  • * 1960 , , chapter 5:
  • Far off to starboard an Atlantic liner, all lights blazing, came towards us, corkscrewing with a motion which must have left the passengers unhappy.
  • To cause something to twist or move in a spiral path or shape.
  • * 1851 , , chapter 134:
  • Caught and twisted—corkscrewed in the mazes of the line, loose harpoons and lances, with all their bristling barbs and points, came flashing and dripping up to the chocks in the bows of Ahab’s boat.
  • * 2006 , Rocky Raab, Baggy Zero Four , page 155:
  • Rusty corkscrewed the plane back down again, but instead of mashing the throttles to the wall, he pulled them to idle.
  • * 2007 , Mike Monahan, Barracuda , page 107:
  • Soon he was corkscrewed into place, suspended from the ceiling in an impossible maze of unforgiving circuitry.
  • To extract information or consent from someone.
  • * 1852 , , Chapter 55:
  • I strongly suspect (from what Small has dropped, and from what we have corkscrewed out of him) that those letters I was to have brought to your ladyship were not destroyed when I supposed they were.
  • * 1922 , , in Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry [http://books.google.com/books?id=lFYQAAAAIAAJ], page 460:
  • Yes, I believe you did after it was corkscrewed out of you, but I got the impression at the outset that you were, just as willing to let it stand there.

    Synonyms

    * (move in a corkscrew path) spiral