Opening

Noun

 * 1) A hole; a gap; a crevice.
 * A salamander darted out of an opening in the rocks.
 * He slipped through an opening in the crowd.
 * 1)  The first few moves in a game of chess.
 * John spends two hours a day studying openings, and another two hours studying endgames.
 * 1) An unoccupied employment position.
 * We have an opening in our marketing department.
 * 1) The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
 * They were disappointed at the turnout for their opening, but hoped that word would spread.
 * 1) The initial period a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening.
 * 2) The first few measures of a musical composition.
 * 3) A time available for an appointment.
 * If you'd like to make a booking with us, we have an opening at twelve o'clock.
 * 1)  A chance to make progress in a game, for example to score a goal.

Synonyms

 * availability, slot
 * See also Thesaurus:hole

Derived terms

 * grand opening
 * market opening
 * opening batsman
 * opening ceremony
 * opening credits
 * opening day
 * opening fire
 * opening hours
 * opening of an envelope
 * soft opening

Verb
opening



Adjectives for Opening
portentous; moderate; auspicious; friendly arched; chiseled; ambitious;  proffered numerous (pi); advantageous; premature crescent; smaller; high-placed; symmetrical.

Verbs for Opening
await—; desire—; enter—; intersperse with —s; miss—; neglect—; observe—; present —; scuttle through—; seize—; seek—; spurn —; widen into—; —affords; —discloses; — narrows; —offers; —promises; —reveals.

Thesaurus
a leg up, abysm, abyss, access, adit, air lock, aisle, alley, alpha, ambulatory, aperture, apparition, appearance, appearing, appointment, approach, arcade, arising, arroyo, artery, avatar, avenue, bareness, barrenness, beginning, berth, billet, birth, blankness, blast-off, bleakness, blowhole, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chance, channel, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chute, clear stage, cleft, cleuch, cloister, clough, col, colonnade, coming, coming into being, coming-forth, commencement, communication, conduit, connection, corridor, coulee, couloir, covered way, crack, cranny, creation, crevasse, crevice, cut, cutting edge, cwm, dawn, dawning, debouch, debut, defile, dell, demonstration, desertedness, desolateness, dike, disclosure, discontinuity, display, ditch, donga, door, draw, edge, egress, emergence, employment, emptiness, emunctory, enactment, engagement, entrance, entranceway, entree, entry, entryway, epiphany, escape, establishment, estuary, excavation, exhaust, exhibit, exhibition, exit, exposition, exposure, fair field, fair game, fault, ferry, fissure, flaw, floodgate, flume, flying start, foothold, ford, forthcoming, foundation, fracture, fresh start, furrow, gallery, gangplank, gangway, gap, gape, gash, gig, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hall, hole, hollowness, in, inanition, inauguration, incarnation, incision, incumbency, ingress, initiation, inlet, institution, intake, interchange, intersection, issuance, job, joint, jump-off, junction, kick-off, kloof, lane, launch, leading edge, leak, liberty, look-in, loophole, manifestation, materialization, materializing, means of access, moat, moonlighting, new departure, noninhabitance, nonoccupance, nonoccupancy, nonresidence, notch, nullah, occasion, occurrence, office, oncoming, onset, open arms, open door, opportunism, opportunity, orifice, origin, origination, ostentation, out, outbreak, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, outset, outstart, overpass, pass, passage, passageway, performance, pit, place, place open, pore, port, portico, position, post, presentation, presentment, production, projection, railroad tunnel, ravine, realization, rent, representation, retrospective, revelation, rift, rime, rise, rising, room, running start, rupture, sally port, scissure, scope, seam, second job, send-off, separation, service, setout, setting in motion, setting-up, shot, show, showing, showing forth, situation, slit, slot, sluice, spiracle, split, spout, square one, squeak, start, start-off, starting point, station, stepping-stone, take-off, tap, tenure, theophany, time, traject, trajet, trench, tunnel, underpass, unfolding, unfoldment, unveiling, vacancy, vacant post, vacuity, valley, varnishing day, vent, ventage, venthole, vernissage, vestibule, void, voidness, vomitory, wadi, way, way in, way out, weir

Noun

 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: trou


 * German:
 * Scottish Gaelic: beul, toll


 * Finnish:
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 * Swedish: ,


 * German: offene Stelle, freie Stelle


 * Portuguese:


 * German: Eröffnungsvorstellung


 * Finnish:


 * Esperanto:
 * Slovene: odprtina (1), otvoritev (2,4,5)
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * 1) opening, gap
 * 2) the act or process of being opened

Etymology
From.