a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings | a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess |
a device for teasing wool | the act of opening something |
a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | becoming open or being made open |
an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest | the first of a series of actions |
an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show | a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made |
someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) | an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship |
a worker who teases wool | 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 |