Open vs Natural - What's the difference?
open | natural | Synonyms |
(not comparable) Which is not closed; accessible; unimpeded; as, an open gate.
* 1908, (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows) , Chapter 2
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
* Dryden
(not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
(comparable) Receptive.
* Bible, Acts xix. 33
* Shakespeare
(not comparable) Public; as, an open letter, an open declaration.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
* Alexander Pope
* Shakespeare
* Addison
(mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable.
(mathematics, topology, of a set) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of , that defines a topological space on .
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Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
(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.
(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.
To make something accessible or remove an obstacle to its being accessible.
* , chapter=7
, title= * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 To bring up (a topic).
To make accessible to customers or clients.
To start (a campaign).
To become .
* , chapter=1
, title= To begin conducting business.
To enter upon; to begin.
(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.
(obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
* Francis Bacon
* Bible, Jer. xx. 12
A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
(electronics) a wire that is broken midway.
(with the ) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
(with the ) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
That exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=
, volume=189, issue=2, page=10, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Of or relating to nature.
Without artificial additives.
As expected; reasonable.
* Addison
(music) Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted .
(music) Produced by natural organs, such as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.
(music) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.
Without, or prior to, modification or adjustment.
* Macaulay
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5 Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Connected by the ties of consanguinity.
* J. H. Newman
(obsolete) Born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard.
(of sexual intercourse) Without a condom.
* 1615 , Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia , Richmond 1957, page 3:
(music) A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental, or the symbol used to indicate such a note.
One with an innate talent at or for something.
An almost white colour, with tints of grey, yellow or brown; originally that of natural fabric.
(archaic) One with a simple mind; a fool or idiot.
* 1597 , , by Shakespeare, Act 2 Scene 4
One's natural life.
* 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, page 155:
*:‘Sergeant-Major Robinson came in in the middle of it, and you've never seen a man look more surprised in your natural .’
Open is a synonym of natural.
As nouns the difference between open and natural
is that open is while natural is .As an adjective natural is
that exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem.open
English
(wikipedia open)Adjective
(en adjective)- The open road, the dusty highway
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.}}
- an open''' hand; an '''open''' flower; an '''open prospect
- Each, with open arms, embraced her chosen knight.
- If Demetrius have a matter against any man, the law is open and there are deputies.
- The service that I truly did his life, / Hath left me open to all injuries.
- His thefts are too open .
- That I may find him, and with secret gaze / Or open admiration him behold.
- with aspect open , shall erect his head
- The Moor is of a free and open nature.
- The French are always open , familiar, and talkative.
- an open question
- to keep an offer or opportunity open
- an open winter
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* (not closed) accessible, unimpededAntonyms
* (accessible) closed, shutDerived 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 armsVerb
(en verb)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.}}
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.’}}
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 open''' a discussion; to '''open''' fire upon an enemy; to '''open''' trade, or correspondence; to '''open a case in court, or a meeting
- to open a closed fist
- to open matted cotton by separating the fibres
- The king opened himself to some of his council, that he was sorry for the earl's death.
- Unto thee have I opened my cause.
Antonyms
* (to make accessible) close, shutDerived 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)- The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.
- 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.
- We have got to bring this company's corrupt business practices into the open .
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English
(wikipedia natural)Alternative forms
* naturall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Karen McVeigh
US rules human genes can't be patented, passage=The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.}}
- His prison sentence was the natural consequence of a life of crime.
- What can be more natural than the circumstances in the behaviour of those women who had lost their husbands on this fatal day?
- the natural motion of a gravitating body
- with strong natural sense, and rare force of will
citation, passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.}}
- To leave his wife, to leave his babes, / He wants the natural touch.
- natural friends
- a natural child
Synonyms
* (as expected) inevitable, necessary, reasonable * (without a condom)Antonyms
* (exists in an ecosystem) aberrant, abnormal, artificial * (as expected) aberrant, abnormal, freak, unexpected, unreasonableDerived terms
* naturally * naturalness * natural advantages * natural aging * natural breast * natural business year * natural child * natural childbirth * natural daughter * natural death * natural disaster * natural fiber * natural food * natural frequency * natural gas * natural historian * natural history * natural killer cell * natural language * natural language processing * natural law * natural light * natural logarithm * natural medicine * natural monopoly * natural number * natural philosophy * natural religion * natural resources * natural scale * natural science * natural selection * natural slope * natural son * natural theology * natural virtue * natural wastage * natural world * natural-born * naturalise/naturalize * naturalist * unnaturalNoun
(en noun)- I coniecture and assure my selfe that yee cannot be ignorant by what meanes this peace hath bin thus happily both for our proceedings and the welfare of the Naturals concluded [...].
- He's a natural on the saxophone.
- (Mercutio) [...] this drivelling love is like a great natural , / that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.