open vs screen

open

noun
  • A sports event in which anybody can compete. 

  • 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. 

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. 

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. 

screen

noun
  • An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate. 

  • A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection. 

  • Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening 

  • A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc. 

  • A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous. 

  • A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions. 

  • A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself. 

  • The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen. 

  • An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible. 

  • The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation. 

  • The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed. 

  • The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects 

  • A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires. 

  • One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens. 

  • A disguise; concealment. 

verb
  • To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate. 

  • To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone. 

  • To present publicly (on the screen). 

  • To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein. 

  • To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts. 

  • To fit with a screen. 

  • To shelter or conceal. 

  • To filter by passing through a screen. 

  • To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease. 

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