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OPENER
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Irregular inflected form: opener
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hand tool used for opening sealed containers (bottles or cans)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("opener" is a kind of...):
hand tool (a tool used with workers' hands)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "opener"):
bottle opener (an opener for removing caps or corks from bottles)
can opener; tin opener (a device for cutting cans open)
latchstring (opener consisting of a string that can be passed through a hole in a door for raising the latch from outside)
Derivation:
open (cause to open or to become open)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The first event in a series
Example:
the season's opener was a game against the Yankees
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("opener" is a kind of...):
start (the beginning of anything)
Derivation:
open (begin or set in action, of meetings, speeches, recitals, etc.)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A person who unfastens or unwraps or opens
Example:
children are talented undoers of their shoelaces
Synonyms:
opener; undoer; unfastener; untier
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("opener" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Derivation:
open (cause to open or to become open)
