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"ref": "1863, The British Controversialist: And Literary Magazine, page 122",
"text": "Have you, like the opener of this debate, discovered, sapiently enough, that \"the peace party, with Lord Aberdeen at their head, were the chief cause of the war\"?",
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"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "開啟的工具"
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"sense": "device that opens something",
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"word": "bantuu"
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"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "باز کننده"
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "device that opens something",
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"roman": "otkryválka",
"sense": "device that opens something",
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"word": "открыва́лка"
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"sense": "device that opens something",
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"word": "öppnare"
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"roman": "vidkryvačka",
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"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "اوپنر"
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"word": "אָפּענער"
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"sense": "device that opens something",
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"text": "The late-night openers in the mall include two restaurants and a clothing store."
}
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"(in combination) An establishment that opens."
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"(card games) The player who starts the betting."
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"(card games, in the plural) Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting."
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"ref": "2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport",
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"(sports) The first game played in a competition."
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"ref": "2011 January 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, in BBC",
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"A period of time when it is legal to commercially fish."
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{
"ref": "2018 August 23, Jon Tayler, “How the Tampa Bay Rays Reinvented the Concept of Starting Pitching”, in Sports Illustrated",
"text": "The Rays debuted the opener—in which a reliever starts the game and throws anywhere from one to three innings, then gives way to a new pitcher, who will usually throw three to five as essentially a second starter—on May 19 against the Angels, using veteran righty Sergio Romo to pitch the first.",
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}
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"A pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs of a game before being replaced, either by a long reliever or a pitcher who would normally start."
],
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[
"baseball",
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[
"pitcher",
"pitcher"
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"reliever",
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"(baseball) A pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs of a game before being replaced, either by a long reliever or a pitcher who would normally start."
],
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"ball-games",
"baseball",
"games",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
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}
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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"General-American"
]
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"General-Australian"
]
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"ipa": "/ˈəʉp.nə/",
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"General-Australian"
]
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],
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}
],
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"_dis1": "12 3 1 23 3 6 2 10 2 9 2 5 22",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ōpunā",
"sense": "baseball pitcher who starts the game, but is planned to have a short outing",
"word": "オープナー"
}
],
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}
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"English 3-syllable words",
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Requests for gender in Swedish entries",
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"word": "bottle-opener"
},
{
"word": "door opener"
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"noun"
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},
{
"word": "for openers"
},
{
"word": "jar opener"
},
{
"word": "letter opener"
},
{
"word": "pew-opener"
},
{
"word": "pipe-opener"
}
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"word": "tin opener"
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"ref": "1863, The British Controversialist: And Literary Magazine, page 122",
"text": "Have you, like the opener of this debate, discovered, sapiently enough, that \"the peace party, with Lord Aberdeen at their head, were the chief cause of the war\"?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A person who opens something."
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],
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"device"
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[
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"tin-opener"
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[
"can-opener",
"can-opener"
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[
"bottle opener",
"bottle opener"
]
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "The late-night openers in the mall include two restaurants and a clothing store."
}
],
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"An establishment that opens."
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"(in combination) An establishment that opens."
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"in-compounds"
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],
"glosses": [
"The player who starts the betting."
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[
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[
"player",
"player"
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[
"betting",
"betting"
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],
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"(card games) The player who starts the betting."
],
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"card-games",
"games"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Card games"
],
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"Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting."
],
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[
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"card game"
],
[
"value",
"value"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(card games, in the plural) Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting."
],
"tags": [
"in-plural"
],
"topics": [
"card-games",
"games"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Metalworking"
],
"glosses": [
"A person employed to separate sheets of hot metal that become stuck together."
],
"links": [
[
"metalworking",
"metalworking"
],
[
"separate",
"separate"
],
[
"sheet",
"sheet"
],
[
"metal",
"metal"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(metalworking) A person employed to separate sheets of hot metal that become stuck together."
],
"topics": [
"arts",
"crafts",
"engineering",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"metallurgy",
"metalworking",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Theater"
],
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"The first act in a variety show or concert."
],
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[
"theater",
"theater"
],
[
"act",
"act"
],
[
"variety show",
"variety show"
],
[
"concert",
"concert"
]
],
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"(theater) The first act in a variety show or concert."
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"theater"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Cricket"
],
"glosses": [
"A batsman who normally plays in the first two positions of an innings."
],
"links": [
[
"cricket",
"cricket"
],
[
"batsman",
"batsman"
],
[
"position",
"position"
],
[
"innings",
"innings"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(cricket) A batsman who normally plays in the first two positions of an innings."
],
"topics": [
"ball-games",
"cricket",
"games",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms"
],
"glosses": [
"The first in a series of events, items etc.; the first remark or sentence of a conversation."
],
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"(colloquial) The first in a series of events, items etc.; the first remark or sentence of a conversation."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Sports"
],
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{
"ref": "2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport",
"text": "England were on the scoreboard after only one minute, Wilkinson, who missed five penalties in his side's opener against the Pumas, knocking over a three-pointer from bang in front, despite boos from the crowd.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The first game played in a competition."
],
"links": [
[
"sports",
"sports"
],
[
"game",
"game"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(sports) The first game played in a competition."
],
"topics": [
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Sports"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011 January 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, in BBC",
"text": "The opener came from a Jarvis ball which struck Aleksandar Kolarov en route to a lively round of pinball between City players before it was poked in by Milijas.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The first goal or point scored."
],
"links": [
[
"sports",
"sports"
],
[
"goal",
"goal"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(sports) The first goal or point scored."
],
"topics": [
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Fishing"
],
"glosses": [
"A period of time when it is legal to commercially fish."
],
"links": [
[
"fishing",
"fishing#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(fishing) A period of time when it is legal to commercially fish."
],
"topics": [
"fishing",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Baseball"
],
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{
"ref": "2018 August 23, Jon Tayler, “How the Tampa Bay Rays Reinvented the Concept of Starting Pitching”, in Sports Illustrated",
"text": "The Rays debuted the opener—in which a reliever starts the game and throws anywhere from one to three innings, then gives way to a new pitcher, who will usually throw three to five as essentially a second starter—on May 19 against the Angels, using veteran righty Sergio Romo to pitch the first.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs of a game before being replaced, either by a long reliever or a pitcher who would normally start."
],
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[
"baseball",
"baseball"
],
[
"pitcher",
"pitcher"
],
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"reliever",
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],
[
"start",
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]
],
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"(baseball) A pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs of a game before being replaced, either by a long reliever or a pitcher who would normally start."
],
"topics": [
"ball-games",
"baseball",
"games",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈəʊ.pən.ə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈoʊ.pən.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈəʉ.pən.ə/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈəʉp.nə/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian"
]
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/En-au-opener.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
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{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "hapës"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "fattāḥa",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "فَتَّاحَة"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "mifakk",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "مِفَكّ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "bacʿičʿ",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "բացիչ"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "açacağı"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "irekigailu"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otvarjačka",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "отварячка"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "obridor"
},
{
"code": "ny",
"lang": "Chichewa",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "kutsegula"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "開啟的工具"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "kāiqǐ de gōngjù",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "开启的工具"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "otvírák"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "avaja"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "avaaja"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "Öffner"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "anoichtíri",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ανοιχτήρι"
},
{
"code": "gn",
"lang": "Guaraní",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "pe'aha"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "nyitó"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "otvorač",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "отворач"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "åpner"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "opnar"
},
{
"code": "om",
"lang": "Oromo",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "bantuu"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "باز کننده"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "otwieracz"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "abridor"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otkryválka",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "открыва́лка"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otkryváška",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "открыва́шка"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "abridor"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "öppnare"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "tüdayi",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "тӯдаи"
},
{
"code": "tsg",
"lang": "Tausug",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "uukab"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "açacak"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vidkryvačka",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "відкривачка"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "اوپنر"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "ochishi"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "opener",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "אָפּענער"
},
{
"code": "zu",
"lang": "Zulu",
"sense": "device that opens something",
"word": "ngikwazi ukuqala"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otkrivašt",
"sense": "player who starts the betting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "откриващ"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "player who starts the betting",
"word": "pelinavaaja"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "openers: cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting",
"word": "avauskortti"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "first act in a variety show",
"word": "avausnumero"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "first act in a variety show",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "primer acto"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "batsman who normally plays in the first two positions of an innings",
"word": "pelinavaaja"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "first in a series of events",
"word": "avaus"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ōpunā",
"sense": "baseball pitcher who starts the game, but is planned to have a short outing",
"word": "オープナー"
}
],
"word": "opener"
}
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