Opening vs Start - What's the difference?
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An act or instance of making or becoming open.
Something that is open.
An act or instance of beginning.
Something that is a beginning.
# The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
# The initial period a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening.
# The first few measures of a musical composition.
# (chess) The first few moves in a game of chess.
A vacant position, especially in an array.
# A time available in a schedule.
# An unoccupied employment position.
An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
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The beginning of an activity.
* Shakespeare
A sudden involuntary movement.
* L'Estrange
* Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla
The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.
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(label) To begin, commence, initiate.
# To set in motion.
#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
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, title= # (senseid)To initiate operation of a vehicle or machine.
# To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
# To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
#* Sir (1628–1699)
To begin an activity.
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, title= To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
# To jerk suddenly in surprise.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#* (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
# To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
#* Wiseman
# To awaken suddenly.
#* (rfdate) (Mary Shelley)
# To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To break away, to come loose.
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(nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
A handle, especially that of a plough.
The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
(Webster 1913)
Opening is a related term of start.
As a verb opening
is .As a noun opening
is an act or instance of making or becoming open.As an adjective opening
is (cricket).As an acronym start is
(law).opening
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- The daily openings of the day lily bloom gives it its name.
- He remembered fondly the Christmas morning opening of presents.
- A salamander darted out of an opening in the rocks.
- He slipped through an opening in the crowd.
- There have been few factory and store openings in the US lately.
- Their opening of the concert with ''Brass in Pocket'' always fires up the crowd.
- They were disappointed at the turnout for their opening , but hoped that word would spread.
- John spends two hours a day studying openings , and another two hours studying endgames.
- Are there likely to be any openings on the Supreme Court in the next four years?
- If you'd like to make a booking with us, we have an opening at twelve o'clock.
- The only two-hour openings for the hockey rink are between 1AM and 5AM.
- We have an opening in our marketing department.
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Synonyms
* (something that is open) hole, gap, crevice * (available time) availability, slot * See alsoCoordinate terms
* (opening of an art show) vernissageDerived terms
* grand opening * market opening * opening batsman * opening ceremony * opening credits * opening day * opening fire * opening hours * opening of an envelope * soft opening ----start
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) stert, from the verb . See below.Noun
(en noun)- The movie was entertaining from start to finish.
- I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, / Straining upon the start .
- He woke with a start .
- Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or in a hurry.
- The sight of his scared face, his starts and pallors and sudden harkenings, unstrung me
- Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- I was engaged in conversation upon a subject which the people love to start in discourse.
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- Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’
- But if he start , / It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.
- I start as from some dreadful dream.
- Keep your soul to the work when ready to start aside.
- One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum.
- I started from my sleep with horror
- Upon malicious bravery dost thou come / To start my quiet?
- we could, with the greatest ease as well as clearness, see all objects (ourselves unseen) only by applying our eyes close to the crevice, where the moulding of a panel had warped or started a little on the other side.