opening vs cleft

cleft vs opening

opening and cleft both are nouns.

opening and cleft both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
opening	Yes	Yes	No	No
cleft	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, cleft is a hyponym of opening; that is, cleft is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than opening:

opening: an open or empty space in or between things
cleft: a long narrow cleft

Other hyponyms of opening include pocket, diastema, nodes of Ranvier, Ranvier's nodes, foramen, hiatus, breach, chasm, crack, crevice, fissure, scissure, hole, mouth, rift, rent, rip, snag, split, tear, window.

opening (noun)	cleft (noun)
a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess	a long narrow cleft
the act of opening something	a split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin)
becoming open or being made open
the first of a series of actions
a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made
an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity
a possible alternative
the initial part of the introduction
the first performance (as of a theatrical production)
a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise
an open or empty space in or between things
opportunity especially for employment or promotion

opening (adjective)	cleft (adjective)
first or beginning	having one or more indentations reaching nearly to the midrib
	split or divided

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