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openingsnounpl. of opening a favorable combination of circumstances, time, and placethe talk show host's usual modus operandi is to talk over his guests, thereby denying them an opening to articulate their positions breaks, chances, occasions, opportunities, room, shots plays, waysjunctures, passes a place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thingan opening in the roof is letting rain drip inside apertures, holes, orifices, perforations loopholesbreaches, breaks, chinks, clefts, cracks, crannies, crevices, cuts, fissures, gashes, notches, rents, rifts, ruptures, slashes, slits, splits, tearsslots, spacesexits, mouths, outlets, pores, ventsentrances, inlets, intakespinholes, pinpricks, punches, puncturesairholes, armholes, buttonholes, keyholes, knotholes, peepholes, potholes, wormholes fillers, fillings, fills, patches, plugs, seals, stoppersbarriers, blockages, obstacles, obstructions an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge)the rabbit found a little opening in the bushes and darted through breaches, breaks, discontinuities, gaps, gulfs, hiatuses, holes, interstices, intervals, rents, rifts, separations, voids chinks, clefts, cracks, crannies, crevices, fissuresnotches, slits, slots, splitsinterspaces, poresabysses, apertures, cavities, chasms, gapes, orificesfractures, ruptures, severances |