Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap, hole |
| Synonyms: | aperture, breach, break, cavity, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, cut, discontinuity, door, fissure, hatch, interstice, mouth, orifice, outlet, perforation, recess, rent, rift, rupture, scuttle, slit, slot, space, split, spout, tear, vent, window |
| Antonyms: | closing, closure, solid |
| Main Entry: | rift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, crack |
| Synonyms: | breach, chink, cleavage, cleft, cranny, crevice, fault, fissure, flaw, fracture, gap, hiatus, interruption, interval, opening, parting, rent, rima, rime, space, split |
| Antonyms: | closing, closure |
| Main Entry: | slit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small opening, cut |
| Synonyms: | aperture, breach, cleavage, cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, gash, hole, incision, rent, split, tear |
| Antonyms: | closure |
| Main Entry: | fissure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap |
| Synonyms: | cleavage, cleft, crack, crevice, hole |
| Main Entry: | foothold |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ledge |
| Synonyms: | crevice, footing, hold, niche, perch, purchase, space, toehold |
| Main Entry: | peephole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hole to look through |
| Synonyms: | crevice, eyehole, eyelet, opening, slit, slot |
| Main Entry: | interspace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap |
| Synonyms: | aperture, arroyo, blank, caesura, canyon, chasm, cleft, clove, crack*, cranny, crevice, cut, defile, difference, disagreement, discontinuity, disparity, divergence, divide, division, fracture, gorge, gulch, gully, hiatus, hole, hollow, inconsistency, interlude, intermission, interruption, interstice, interval, lacuna, lull, notch, opening, orifice, pause, ravine, recess, rent, respite, rest, rift, rupture, separation, slit, slot, space, vacuity, void |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | interspace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
alveolate, aveoliform, betwixt, broken, cavernous, chasmophilous, clathrate, cortinate, crackled, embolismal, episodic, ethmoid, far between, fatiscent, faviform, fretted, geodesic, interamnian, interaural, intercalary, intercalated, intercolline, intercurrent, interjacent, interlineal, interlinear, intermediary, intermediate, interstitial, intervenient, intervening, intrusive, machicolated, mediterranean, merged, parenthetical, rictal, rimose, sandwiched, slit, vuggy, with an interval
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| Concept: | Opening. |
| Category: | 3. Superficial form |
| Synonyms: |
-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 (interval)., embrasure, window, casement; abatjour; light; sky light, fan light; lattice; bay window, bow window; oriel; 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; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe; air pipe; 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; pierching; terebration, empalement, pertusion, puncture, acupuncture, penetration., opener, key, master key, passe-partout.
-verbs
open, ope, gape, yawn, bilge; fly open., perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine (scoop out); tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, punch, 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.
-adjectives
open; perforated; 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; aperient.
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| Antonyms: | closure |
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