Word Meanings - OPENING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech. The opening of your glory was like that of light. Dryden. 2. A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole. We saw

Additional info about word: OPENING

1. The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech. The opening of your glory was like that of light. Dryden. 2. A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole. We saw him at the opening of his tent. Shak. 3. Hence: A vacant place; an opportunity; as, an opening for business. Dickens. 4. A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; as, oak openings. Cooper.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OPENING)

• Aperture
• Opening
• gap
• chasm
• fissure
• cleft
• Beginning
• Commencement
• start
• origin
• rise
• initiation
• preparation
• preface
• prelude
• inauguration
• inception
• threshold
• opening
• source
• outset
• foundation
• Entrance
• Introduction
• entry
• inlet
• porch
• admission
• penetration
• avenue
• portal
• ingress
• adit
• Inlet
• commencement
• entrance
• Occasion
• Conjuncture
• opportunity
• occurrence
• cause
• need
• event
• reason
• necessity
• ground

Related words: (words related to OPENING)

• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• PRELUDER
  One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• CLEFTGRAFT
  To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.
• FISSURE
  A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures , the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• EVENT
  1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix.
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• OCCASIONALISM
  The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• APERTURE
  The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture. Note: The aperture of microscopes is often expressed in degrees, called also the angular aperture,
• REASONLESS
  1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.
• EVENTILATION
  The act of eventilating; discussion. Bp. Berkely.
• REASONABLY
  1. In a reasonable manner. 2. Moderately; tolerably. "Reasonably perfect in the language." Holder.
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• CENTRY
  See GRAY
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• GENTRY
  gentrise, and OF. gentelise, genterise, E. gentilesse, also OE. 1. Birth; condition; rank by birth. "Pride of gentrie." Chaucer. She conquers him by high almighty Jove, By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath. Shak. 2. People
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• SERPENTRY
  1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.