How to pronounce “opening”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• present participle and gerund of open
• [Adjective]
• Pertaining to the start or beginning of a series of events.
• (cricket) Of the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket.
• (cricket) Of the batsman who opens the innings or of a bowler who opens the attack.
• [Noun]
• An act or instance of making or becoming open.
• A gap permitting passage through.
• An act or instance of beginning.
• Something that is a beginning.
• A vacant position, especially in an array.
• An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
• (mathematics) In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.

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