fast and loose vs open

fast and loose

noun
  • A con game played with a chain, belt or string that is laid down to form two open loops. The mark places a finger or stick in one of the loops to try to secure the chain when it gets lifted, but the con artist is able to prevent this no matter which loop was chosen. 

open

verb
  • To move to a position allowing fluid to flow. 

  • To bring up, broach. 

  • To make accessible to customers or clients. 

  • To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker. 

  • To spread; to expand into an open or loose position. 

  • To move to a position preventing electricity from flowing. 

  • To become open. 

  • To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position. 

  • To enter upon, begin. 

  • To turn on; to switch on. 

  • To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility. 

  • To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen. 

  • To make (a bed) ready for a patient by folding back the bedcovers. 

  • To start (a campaign). 

  • To begin conducting business. 

  • To reveal one's hand. 

  • To load into memory for viewing or editing. 

noun
  • Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location. 

  • Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view. 

  • The act of something being opened, such as an e-mail message. 

  • A defect in an electrical circuit preventing current from flowing. 

  • A sports event in which anybody can compete. 

adj
  • Not fulfilled. 

  • Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components. 

  • Having a free variable. 

  • Having component words separated by spaces, as opposed to being joined together or hyphenated; for example, time slot as opposed to timeslot or time-slot. 

  • Public 

  • Mild (of the weather); free from frost or snow. 

  • With open access, of open science, or both. 

  • Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character. 

  • Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body. 

  • In current use; mapped to part of memory. 

  • Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard. 

  • Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business. 

  • Able to have something pass through or along it. 

  • not covered, showing what is inside 

  • To be in a position preventing electricity from flowing. 

  • Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure. 

  • Source code of a computer program that is not within the text of a macro being generated. 

  • To be in a position allowing fluid to flow. 

  • Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve. 

  • Able to be accessed (physically). 

  • Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels. 

  • That ends in a vowel; not having a coda. 

  • Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended. 

  • Receptive. 

  • Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X. 

  • Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement. 

  • Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration. 

  • Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate. 

  • Whose first and last vertices are different. 

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