Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To open.
- noun A trough used in South Africa for sheep-washing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To open.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
open (a door, gate etc.)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Here the exec statement re-opens stdout on the log file and then re-opens stderr on the same thing that stdout is opened on (this is how you duplicate file descriptors, aka dup them).
Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community 2010
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Face it - You forgot that once he loses the GE, he'll basically have use dup his political capital and won't get a second chance to run his change campaign ... hahahaha.
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The Daily Record talked to Robert Pattinson, who seems to have picke dup some phobias from Twilight, or at least a sense of his own mortality.
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Aren't both ballots clearly marked at the time the dup. is created?
Coleman Camp Launches Last-Minute Effort To Undo Franken's 48-Vote Lead 2009
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I think the point is: Aren't both ballots clearly marked at the time the dup. is created?
Coleman Camp Launches Last-Minute Effort To Undo Franken's 48-Vote Lead 2009
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(Please forgive me if this shows up as a dup: unforced error on my part)
New Obama Ad On McCain's Reformer Image: "Wait A Second" 2009
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After Westar dup up the dirt next door (during this last expansion) and brought in an industrial vacuum that went into the ground sucking up who knows what, we all got sick.
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I had quite enjoyed Maitland's most recent mystery to be published in the US, NO TRACE from St. Martin's Press, so I picke dup THE VERGE PRACTICE, which had been published just before that by Arcade.
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2007
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After Westar dup up the dirt next door (during this last expansion) and brought in an industrial vacuum that went into the ground sucking up who knows what, we all got sick.
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I hope this is not a dup post by me, but in mid comment I decided against my better judgement to look at your link.
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