present participle of open
An act or instance of making or becoming open.
Something that is open.
An act or instance of beginning.
Something that is a beginning.
The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
The initial period a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening.
The first few measures of a musical composition.
A vacant position, especially in an array.
The first few moves in a game of chess.
A time available in a schedule.
An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.
describing the first period of opens the attack
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
In games.
An opening in a solid.
A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
An excavation pit or trench.
A weakness, a flaw
A container or receptacle.
In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
Sex, or a sex partner.
Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
Difficulty, in particular, debt.
A chordless cycle in a graph.
To make holes in (an object or surface).
To destroy.
To go into a hole.
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
