• Czech: otevřít se
• Danish: åbnes
• Dutch: opengaan
• Esperanto: malfermiĝi
• Finnish: aueta
• German: öffnete sich
• Greek: ανοίγω (anoígo)
• Hebrew: להפתח
• Irish: oscail
• Kurdish:
• Latvian: atvērt
• Norwegian: åpnes
• Polish: otwierać się
• Portuguese: abrir
• Russian: открываться/открыться (otkryvát's'a/otkrýt's'a), отворяться/отвориться (otvor'át's'a/otvorít's'a) a door only
• Slovene: odpreti (se)
• Swedish: öppnas, öppna sig

• Czech: otevřít
• Danish: åbne
• Dutch: opengaan
• Esperanto: malfermiĝi
• Finnish: avata
• German: offen, geöffnet
• Greek: ανοίγω (anoígo)
• Hebrew: להפתח
• Norwegian: åpne
• Polish: otwierać
• Portuguese: abrir
• Russian: открываться/открыться (otkryvát's'a/otkrýt's'a)
• Slovene: odpreti (1,2,3)
• Swedish: öppna

Noun

1. A sports event in which anybody can contest; as, the Australian Open.
2. a wire that is broken midway.

   The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.

sports event

• Finnish: avoimet

broken wire

• Finnish: katkos

Related terms

• open bar
• open-book
• open house
• open up
• opener
• opening
• wide open
• open and shut

Anagrams

• pone

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

open

1. open

Derived terms

• openbaar
• openbaren

Verb form

open

1. first person singular present tense of openen
2. imperative form of openen

Finnish

Noun

open

Old English

Etymology

Common Germanic *upanaz

Adjective

open

1. open

Open may refer to:

In philosophy

• Openness, term being used to define the basis of how various groups and organizations operate.

In mathematics

• Open problem, a well-defined problem with no known solution in science and mathematics
• Open set, set in topology and related fields of mathematics
• Opening, an operator in mathematical morphology

In music:

• Open (album), 2004 album by Shaznay Lewis
• Open (band), Australian pop/rock band

In other fields:

• open (application), Nextstep & Mac OS X command line application that opens its argument(s) in the GUI as if the user had double clicked
• Open circuit, in electronics, the absence of a load through which electric current would flow.
• Open-source software, computer software modifiable by all, where users are treated as co-developers.
• Open (magazine), a lifestyle Mexican publication.
• Open (sport), type of competition in tennis and golf where entry is open to all qualifiers regardless of age
• Open vowel, vowel sound of a type used in most spoken languages
• Open...., the original interactive television service on BSkyBs Sky Digital platform
• Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of North America, inclusive, not-for-profit organization.
• Open Season, a movie made in Sony Animation.
• the C POSIX library function , defined in fcntl.h and used for C file input/output

See also

• Open-ended
• Open mind
• Open system
• Closed

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