a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess | a change of position that does not entail a change of location |
the act of opening something | the act of changing the location of something |
becoming open or being made open | a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end |
the first of a series of actions | the act of changing location from one place to another |
a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made | the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock) |
an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | a general tendency to change (as of opinion) |
an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity | a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata |
a possible alternative | a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something |
the initial part of the introduction | a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals |
the first performance (as of a theatrical production) | an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object |
a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise | a euphemism for defecation |
an open or empty space in or between things | |
opportunity especially for employment or promotion | |