when a shop, bank, restaurant etc opens
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Open "зорэп/ [и I] if a shop, bank, restaurant etc opens at a particular time in the day, people can use it from that time: "What time do the banks open?" "They normally open at 9.30." I On Satur days, the restaurant opens at 7 p.m.
You can also use open to say that a new shop, bank, restaurant etc starts to be available for people to use: A new McDonalds has opened in St Petersburg. I The store first opened in / 976. You can also say that someone opens a new shop, bank, restaurant etc, meaning that they make it available for people to use: They plan to open a new superstore just outside of town.
open /'зорэп: [adj not before noun] if a shop, bank, restaurant etc \s open, it is available for people to use: The World Cafe is open from 20 a.m. till 11 p.m. stay open In some places, the bars stay open all night.
OPINION
UKE/NOT LIKE
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AGAINST
Я DISAGREEING
AGREE ^ _ ^DISAGREE
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SUPPORT
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IB AGREEING
what you think about something
opinion /a'pinjan/ [п C] what you think about a subject or situation my/your/her etc opinion Do you want my opinion? I don't think the colour really suits you.
in my/your/fier etc opinion In my opinion, most lawyers are overpaid. I This is, in the opinion of the critics, their best record for years.
OPEN
+ about/on Can I ask your opinion about something, Michael?
give your opinion (=say what you think) Do you think it's a good essay? Give me your honest opinion.
Qwhat you thialc o//about sth
/,wDt ju: 'Bjqk dv, abaot (sth)/ especially
spoken your opinion about something, especially whether you think it is good or bad: What do you think of the new Oasis record? I You still haven't said what you think about my idea.
view \ju: [n C| your opinion about something, especially about a serious or important subject: It is quite natural for children to have different views from their parents.
+ that I don't agree with the view that longer prison sentences stop people from committing crime. in my/his/John's view In Freud's view, people's dreams often reveal their unconscious fears.
+ on She has strong uiews on environmental issues.
attitude /<etJ,tju:d||-tu:d |n C] what you think and feel about something or someone. especially when this is shown in the way you behave: I don't understand your attitude. Why don't you trust her? + to/towards Since the 1960s, there has been a big change in people's attitudes to sex before marriage
point of view /.рэшс av vju:/ (n C| what
you think about something, especially when this is influenced by the situation you are in
from sb's point of view From a farmer's point of vieик foxes are a nuisance. listen to sb's point of view She 's a/ways ready to listen to other people's points of view.
piurcii points of view
pubUc opinion ,рлЫ|к o'pmjan [n U]
what most people in a country tbink about a particular subject, idea, or problem.- The government responded to public opinion and introduced new controls on guns. 1 Public opinion is strongly in favour of the death penalty.
position /pa'zipn; (n singular) the official opinion of a government, political party, or organization
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+ on What is the party's position on abortion?
Q what other people think about you
reputation /repj^teipn [n C] someone's reputation is the general opinion that other people have about them, for example whether they are good or bad exceUent/good/bad reputation No parent wants to send their child to a school with a bad reputation. + as She had a reputation as a very efficient organizer.
+ for a car with a reputation for reliability damage sb's reputation Nixon's reputation was damaged so badly that he had to resign.
image .'imidj [n singular] the idea that people have about a well-known person, company, or product - use this especially about an idea that is deliberately created through newspaper stories, advertising etc: Pepsi's image is as a drink for fashionable young people. be bad/good for sb's image The President $ advisers said it would be bad for his image to be photographed with union leaders.
OPPOSITE
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when two things are completely
different
in the opposite direction
when two people or things are
facing each other
see also different, same
D when two things or
people are completely different
opposite /'Dp3zЈt|'a:p-/ [adj] as different as possible from something else: The medicine was supposed to make him sleep, but it had the opposite effect. I During the summer there wasn't enough rain, but now we have the opposite problem! I John and I have opposite opinions on a/most everything.
the opposite /di 'op3zJ>t||-'a:p-/ In singular] a person or thing that is as different as possible from someone or something else, or a word whose meaning is as different as possible from the meaning of another word: They csked for our advice. and
then did the oppositeI + of 'Hard' is the opposite of 'soft \ just the opposite (=exactly the opposite) Larry is friendly and outgoing, but his brother is just the opposite.
Qthe other way around /di л(Ъг
wei 3'raond/ spoken if a situation is the other way around, it is the opposite of what you thought or of what someone has just said: No, the street was named after the college, not the other way around. (=the college was not named after the street) I I thought he was the boss and she was his secretary, but in fact it was the other way around.
В in the opposite direction
the other way /6i лйэг wei go/come/ look/face the other way to go, look etc