open

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verb

1 door, window, box, etc.

ADVERB

▪ fully, wide

▪

She opened all the windows wide to let some fresh air in.

▪ gingerly

▪

Fred opened the box gingerly and peered inside.

▪ quickly, suddenly

▪ slowly

▪ automatically

▪

The glass doors opened automatically for him.

▪ out, up

▪

I opened out the map and laid it on the table.

▪

‘Open up!’ He shouted, hammering on the door.

VERB + OPEN

▪ try to

▪ manage to

▪ fail to

▪

Her parachute failed to open.

2 building, road, etc.

ADVERB

▪ formally, officially

▪ up

▪

the opportunity to open up new markets

VERB + OPEN

▪ be due to, be expected to, be scheduled to

▪

The museum is due to open next year.

▪ hope to, intend to, plan to, want to, wish to

PHRASES

▪ newly opened, recently opened

▪

the newly opened gallery of Western decorative art

Open is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑bud, ↑chasm, ↑conference, ↑curtain, ↑decade, ↑divide, ↑door, ↑elevator, ↑exhibit, ↑exhibition, ↑eye, ↑factory, ↑festival, ↑film, ↑gallery, ↑gate, ↑gulf, ↑hearing, ↑index, ↑inquest, ↑key, ↑market, ↑meeting, ↑mouth, ↑movie, ↑museum, ↑parachute, ↑poll, ↑restaurant, ↑session, ↑shop, ↑sky, ↑stock exchange, ↑store, ↑story, ↑talk, ↑trading, ↑trial, ↑window, ↑work

Open is used with these nouns as the object: ↑account, ↑airspace, ↑archive, ↑arm, ↑artery, ↑attachment, ↑avenue, ↑backpack, ↑bag, ↑beak, ↑blind, ↑bonnet, ↑book, ↑boot, ↑border, ↑bottle, ↑boutique, ↑bowel, ↑bowling, ↑box, ↑branch, ↑briefcase, ↑can, ↑carton, ↑cash register, ↑channel, ↑chasm, ↑closet, ↑coconut, ↑congress, ↑conversation, ↑cover, ↑crate, ↑cupboard, ↑curtain, ↑debate, ↑dialogue, ↑discussion, ↑document, ↑door, ↑drape, ↑drawer, ↑email, ↑embassy, ↑enquiry, ↑envelope, ↑evening, ↑exhibition, ↑eye, ↑eyelid, ↑facility, ↑factory, ↑faucet, ↑festival, ↑file, ↑fire, ↑flap, ↑flask, ↑frontier, ↑gate, ↑gift, ↑hatch, ↑headquarters, ↑hearing, ↑heart, ↑hood, ↑inquest, ↑institute, ↑jar, ↑jaw, ↑lead, ↑letter, ↑lid, ↑lock, ↑loophole, ↑mail, ↑meeting, ↑menu, ↑mind, ↑mouth, ↑museum, ↑negotiation, ↑newspaper, ↑office, ↑package, ↑packet, ↑palm, ↑parachute, ↑parcel, ↑phase, ↑pocketbook, ↑pore, ↑post, ↑practice, ↑present, ↑purse, ↑railway, ↑refrigerator, ↑refuge, ↑restaurant, ↑rucksack, ↑safe, ↑season, ↑shade, ↑shop, ↑showroom, ↑shutter, ↑soda, ↑station, ↑store, ↑subsidiary, ↑suitcase, ↑talk, ↑thread, ↑trunk, ↑umbrella, ↑valve, ↑vault, ↑vein, ↑vent, ↑wallet, ↑wardrobe, ↑window, ↑wing, ↑work, ↑zip

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adj.

1 not closed

VERBS

▪ be, gape, hang, lie, stand

▪

She stared at him, her mouth hanging open.

▪

The book lay open in front of him.

▪

The door stood open.

▪ burst, creak, fall, flutter, fly, shoot, slide, snap, swing

▪

The bag fell open.

▪

Suddenly the door flew open.

▪

The gate swung open.

▪ remain

▪ break sth, cut sth, fling sth, flip sth, get sth, prise/prize sth (esp. BrE), pry sth (esp. AmE), pull sth, push sth, rip sth, tear sth, throw sth, wrench sth, yank sth

▪

She flung the door open and rushed in.

▪

She flipped open Chris's diary.

▪

I tried to pry open the locket.

▪

He tore the letter open.

▪ have sth, hold sth, keep sth, leave sth

▪

She held the door open for them.

▪ find sth, see sth

▪

I found the door open.

ADVERB

▪ fully, wide

▪

The door was wide open.

▪ partially

▪ slightly

2 honest and willing to talk

VERBS

▪ be, seem

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ completely

PREPOSITION

▪ about

▪

She's very open about her mistakes.

▪ with

▪

I don't think you've been completely open with me.

3 available for people to use

VERBS

▪ be

▪ remain, stay

▪

In spite of the snow, the roads remained open.

▪

Some of the supermarkets stay open till ten.

▪ keep sth

▪

We want to keep the school open.

PREPOSITION

▪ to

▪

The pool is only open to residents.

4 having begun

VERBS

▪ be

▪ declare sth (esp. BrE)

▪

The Australian premier declared the Olympic Games open.

ADVERB

▪ officially

▪

The bridge is officially open now.

Open is used with these nouns: ↑acknowledgement, ↑admiration, ↑admission, ↑aggression, ↑arm, ↑ballot, ↑bar, ↑boat, ↑border, ↑carriage, ↑casket, ↑collar, ↑combat, ↑communication, ↑communion, ↑competition, ↑conflict, ↑confrontation, ↑contempt, ↑contest, ↑country, ↑countryside, ↑courtyard, ↑curiosity, ↑curtain, ↑cut, ↑debate, ↑deck, ↑defiance, ↑desert, ↑dialogue, ↑disbelief, ↑discussion, ↑display, ↑ditch, ↑door, ↑doorway, ↑drawer, ↑ear, ↑election, ↑enquiry, ↑enrolment, ↑evening, ↑expanse, ↑expression, ↑face, ↑field, ↑fire, ↑fireplace, ↑flame, ↑flower, ↑forum, ↑gate, ↑goal, ↑grave, ↑ground, ↑hand, ↑hatch, ↑hearing, ↑hill, ↑hillside, ↑hostility, ↑invitation, ↑jaw, ↑kitchen, ↑land, ↑letter, ↑market, ↑marriage, ↑meeting, ↑microphone, ↑mind, ↑moor, ↑mouth, ↑neck, ↑ocean, ↑palm, ↑pit, ↑plain, ↑pore, ↑prairie, ↑prison, ↑question, ↑razor, ↑rebellion, ↑revolt, ↑road, ↑sandal, ↑sandwich, ↑sea, ↑season, ↑seat, ↑secret, ↑session, ↑set, ↑shelf, ↑shutter, ↑sky, ↑slope, ↑society, ↑sore, ↑space, ↑stretch, ↑string, ↑suitcase, ↑surgery, ↑system, ↑talk, ↑tender, ↑terrain, ↑tournament, ↑truck, ↑verdict, ↑vowel, ↑wagon, ↑ward, ↑warfare, ↑water, ↑window, ↑wound

Open is used with these verbs: ↑drop, ↑shoulder, ↑shove