FENESTRAE Synonyms

• a device that controls amount of light admitted

• a natural opening in something

• an man-made opening; usually small

• (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent

• a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall

• a short light metallic sound

• make or emit a high sound

• fill the chinks of, as with caulking

• make cracks or chinks in

• a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures

• an open or empty space in or between things

• a narrow opening

• a pass between mountain peaks; geomorphological term for the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks

• a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations

• an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity

• make an opening or gap in

• an ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation

• a small hole in a fortified wall; for observation or discharging weapons

• first or beginning

• an open or empty space in or between things

• a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise

• becoming open or being made open

• the first performance (as of a theatrical production)

• the act of opening something

• opportunity especially for employment or promotion

• the initial part of the introduction

• a possible alternative

• an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity

• a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made

• an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

• a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess

• the first of a series of actions

• a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically)

• a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet

• a short vein that carries blood into the liver

• a long narrow opening

• obscene terms for female genitals

• a depression scratched or carved into a surface

• a narrow fissure

• make a clean cut through

• cut a slit into

• fenestra that has the base of the stapes attached to it