Roget's Thesaurus

#260. 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) 198. 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. 627; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe etc. 350; air pipe etc. 351; 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. 631, 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) 252; 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.

Interjections

open sesame!