Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Opening

Nouns
  • hole, foramen
  • puncture, perforation
  • fontanel
  • transforation
  • pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole
  • eye of a needle
  • eyelet
  • slot. opening
  • aperture, apertness
  • hiation, yawning, oscitancy, dehiscence, patefaction, pandiculation
  • chasm etc. (interval) Interval. embrasure, window, casement
  • abatjour
  • light
  • sky light, fan light
  • lattice
  • bay window, bow window
  • oriel [Arch.]
  • dormer, lantern. outlet, inlet
  • vent, vomitory
  • embouchure
  • orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle
  • placket. portal, porch, gate, ostiary, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door
  • arcade
  • cellarway, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway
  • lich gate. way, path etc. Method [Path.]
  • thoroughfare
  • channel
  • passage, passageway
  • tube, pipe
  • water pipe etc. [Channel for the passage of water.] Conduit
  • air pipe etc. [Channel for the passage of air.] Airpipe
  • vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula
  • adjutage, ajutage
  • ostium
  • smokestack
  • chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main
  • mine, pit, adit, shaft
  • gallery. alley, aisle, glade, vista. bore, caliber
  • pore
  • blind orifice
  • fulgurite, thundertube. porousness, porosity. sieve, cullender, colander
  • cribble, riddle, screen
  • honeycomb. apertion, perforation
  • piercing etc. v.
  • terebration, empalement, pertusion, puncture, acupuncture, penetration. key etc. Instrumentality, opener, master key, password, combination, passe-partout.
Verbs
  • open, ope, gape, yawn, bilge
  • fly open. perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill
  • mine etc. (scoop out) Concavity
  • tunnel
  • transpierce, transfix
  • enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch
  • stave in. cut a passage through
  • make way for, make room for. uncover, unclose, unrip
  • lay open, cut open, rip open, throw open, pop open, blow open, pry open, tear open, pull open.
Adjectives
  • open
  • perforated etc. v.
  • perforate
  • wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped
  • oscitant, gaping, yawning
  • patent. tubular, cannular, fistulous
  • pervious, permeable
  • foraminous
  • vesicular, vasicular
  • porous, follicular, cribriform, honeycombed, infundibular, riddled
  • tubulous, tubulated
  • piped, tubate. opening etc. v.
  • aperient.
Int
  • open sesame!