What is a Soft Opening? Soft openings are a good way for businesses to attract customers and draw a large crowd in preparation for before the grand opening. New sports stadiums may host amateur or semi-pro sports events before hosting a game played by a professional sports team.
Incense means both to make angry and a stick that burns slowly and emits a strong smell. If your new college roommate burns incense in your tiny dorm room, you might get incensed and storm out. How can a word that means a substance that is burned for its sweet odor come to mean make very angry?
Definition of altar. 1  1 : a usually raised structure or place on which sacrifices are offered or incense is burned in worship âoften used figuratively to describe a thing given great or undue precedence or value especially at the cost of something else sacrificed his family life on the altar of career advancement.