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wound
English
Etymology 1
Noun from Middle English wund, from Old English wund, from Proto-Germanic *wund?. Verb from Middle English wunden, from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wund?n?.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: wo?ond, IPA(key): /wu?nd/
- (MLE) IPA(key): /wy?nd/
- (US) enPR: wo?ond, IPA(key): /wund/
- (obsolete) enPR: wound, IPA(key): /wa?nd/
- Rhymes: -u?nd
Noun
wound (plural wounds)
- An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:
- The visitors were without Wayne Rooney after he suffered a head wound in training, which also keeps him out of England's World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine.
- 1595 Shakespeare, "Wales. Before Flint castle", King Richard the Second.
- Showers of blood / Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- I went below, and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:
- (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
- It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.
- (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
Synonyms
- (injury): injury, lesion
- (something that offends a person's feelings): slight, slur, insult
- See also Thesaurus:injury
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
wound (third-person singular simple present wounds, present participle wounding, simple past and past participle wounded)
- (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
- (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
Usage notes
- In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb wound had the form woundest, and had woundedst for its past tense.
- Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form woundeth was used.
Synonyms
- (injure): See Thesaurus:harm
- (hurt (feelings)): See Thesaurus:offend
Translations
Etymology 2
See wind (Etymology 2)
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /wa?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
Verb
wound
- simple past tense and past participle of wind
Derived terms
- drum-wound
- series-wound
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opening
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?o?.p?.n??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???.p?.n??/
Verb
opening
- present participle of open
Derived terms
- eye-opening (adjective)
Noun
opening (plural openings)
- An act or instance of making or becoming open.
- The daily openings of the day lily bloom gives it its name.
- He remembered fondly the Christmas morning opening of presents.
- Something that is open.
- A salamander darted out of an opening in the rocks.
- He slipped through an opening in the crowd.
- An act or instance of beginning.
- There have been few factory and store openings in the US lately.
- Their opening of the concert with Brass in Pocket always fires up the crowd.
- Something that is a beginning.
- The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
- They were disappointed at the turnout for their opening, but hoped that word would spread.
- The initial period a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening.
- The first few measures of a musical composition.
- (chess) The first few moves in a game of chess.
- John spends two hours a day studying openings, and another two hours studying endgames.
- The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
- A vacant position, especially in an array.
- Are there likely to be any openings on the Supreme Court in the next four years?
- A time available in a schedule.
- If you'd like to make a booking with us, we have an opening at twelve o'clock.
- The only two-hour openings for the hockey rink are between 1AM and 5AM.
- An unoccupied employment position.
- We have an opening in our marketing department.
- An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
- (mathematics) In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.
Synonyms
- (something that is open): hole, gap, crevice; see also Thesaurus:hole or Thesaurus:interspace
- (available time): availability, slot
- (unoccupied employment position): job opening
Coordinate terms
- (opening of an art show): vernissage
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ?????? (?puningu)
Translations
Adjective
opening (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the start or beginning of a series of events.
- The opening theme of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is, perhaps, the most recognizable in all of European art music.
- The opening act of the battle for Fort Sumter was the firing of a single 10-inch mortar round from Fort Johnson at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, by Lt. Henry S. Farley, who acted upon the command of Capt. George S. James, which round exploded over Fort Sumter as a signal to open the general bombardment from 43 guns and mortars at Fort Moultrie, Fort Johnson, the floating battery, and Cummings Point.
- (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing a batsman who opens the innings or a bowler who opens the attack
Derived terms
References
- “opening”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “opening” in the Collins English Dictionary
- “opening” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dutch
Etymology
From openen +? -ing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?o?p?n??/
Noun
opening f (plural openingen, diminutive openinkje n)
- opening, gap
- the act or process of being opened
Spanish
Noun
opening m (plural openings)
- opening sequence; title sequence
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