Open
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A sports event in which anybody can contest; as, the Australian Open. a wire that is broken midway. (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location. (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Which is not closed; accessible; unimpeded; as, an open gate. Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business. Receptive. Public; as, an open letter, an open declaration. Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character: Having a free variable. Is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X. In current use; mapped to part of memory.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To make something accessible or removing an obstacle to something being accessible. To bring up (a topic). To make accessible to customers or clients. To start (a campaign). To become open. To begin conducting business. To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen. To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker. To reveal one's hand. To load into memory for viewing or editing.
Example sentence: Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.
Exposed
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to.
Example sentence: The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.