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Definition of Openers
1. opener [n] - See also: opener
Lexicographical Neighbors of Openers
Literary usage of Openers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cotton Spinning by William Scott Taggart (1898)
"openers receive their name principally from the fact that they open the cotton
sufficiently to extract from it the great bulk of the impurities it contains. ..."
2. Fun, Ancient and Modern by Charles Maurice Davies (1878)
"EYE-openers. OQR concluding phase of Fun was to bear the title of "Eye-openers;"
an expression which has been perhaps too exclusively applied to Yankee ..."
3. The Works of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon (1824)
"A catalogue of astringents, openers, and cordials, instrumental to health.
ASTRINGENTS. RED rose, black-berry, myrtle, ..."
4. The Spas of England, and Principal Sea-bathing Places by Augustus Bozzi Granville (1841)
"... doubling the present Church Accommodation—PEWS and greedy Pew openers—Simony—Points
of Difference in the two Creeds—QUERIES—Will the Romanists answer? ..."
5. Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style Into Writer's Workshopby Jeff Anderson by Jeff Anderson (2005)
"... Comma Magnets as Sentence openers Introductory words, such as adverbs, and
transitional words that indicate order or time, are usually followed by a ..."
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