English Dictionary

opener

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈəʊ.pən.ə/

名詞

複合語中 複数形 口語

A person who opens something. / A device that opens something; specifically a tin-opener/can-opener, or a bottle opener. / (in combination) An establishment that opens.

日本語の意味

何かを開ける人 / 何かを開ける装置、特に缶切りや瓶オープナー / （他の単語と組み合わさる場合の意味）営業を開始する施設や店舗

At the ceremony, the opener carefully lifted the curtain to unveil the plaque.

式典で、幕を開ける係の人が慎重にカーテンを持ち上げて記念の銘板を披露した。

意味（1）

A person who opens something.

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?

意味（2）

A device that opens something; specifically a tin-opener/can-opener, or a bottle opener.

意味（3）

(in combination) An establishment that opens.

The late-night openers in the mall include two restaurants and a clothing store.

意味（4）

(card games) The player who starts the betting.

意味（5）

(card games, in the plural) Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting.

意味（6）

(metalworking) A person employed to separate sheets of hot metal that become stuck together.

意味（7）

(theater) The first act in a variety show or concert.

意味（8）

(cricket) A batsman who normally plays in the first two positions of an innings.

意味（9）

(colloquial) The first in a series of events, items etc.; the first remark or sentence of a conversation.

意味（10）

(sports) The first game played in a competition.

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.

意味（11）

(sports) The first goal or point scored.

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.

意味（12）

(fishing) A period of time when it is legal to commercially fish.

意味（13）

(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.

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.

openers （ plural ）