opening

Definition

  • noun: a hole or empty space that you can go through
  • noun: an act or instance of making or becoming open
  • usually singular

Examples

  • It seemed that the whole world was 'opening up' for me. [=it seemed that anything was possible]

  • In her 'opening statement', she told the jury that her client was not guilty.

  • One of my favorite comedians is 'opening for' the band on their current tour.

Movie quotes

  • (..) the dangers of performing that ritual? I dunno, I hadn't gotten to that part, yet. Temporal manipulations can create branches in time: unstable dimensional openings, spatial paradoxes, time loops! You wanna get stuck reliving the same moment over, and over, forever, or never having existed at all? (..)
    2016 Doctor Strange