hole
see also: Hole
Pronunciation Noun
Hole
Etymology
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see also: Hole
Pronunciation Noun
hole (plural holes)
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg. I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.
- c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene vii]:
- To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks.
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC ↗:
- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- There’s a hole in my shoe. Her stocking has a hole in it.
- 1840, Alfred Tennyson, Godiva:
- […] her palfrey’s footfall shot
Light horrors thro’ her pulses: the blind walls
Were full of chinks and holes; and overhead
Fantastic gables, crowding, stared: […]
- (heading) In games.
- (golf) 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.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- I played 18 holes yesterday. The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (stud poker) 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.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- I have found a hole in your argument.
(informal) A container or receptacle. - car hole; brain hole
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
- Just shut your hole!
- (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
- (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) Vagina.
(informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment. - Synonyms: box
- 2011, Ahmariah Jackson, IAtomic Seven, Locked Up but Not Locked Down:
- Disciplinary actions can range from a mere write up to serious time in the hole.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
- His apartment is a hole!
- (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- We’re supposed to take the hole at Cronk and wait for the Limited to pass.
- (North America, historical) A mountain valley.
- Jackson Hole
- See also Thesaurus:hole
- (solitary confinement) administrative segregation, ad-seg, block (UK), box, cooler (UK), hotbox, lockdown, pound, SCU, security housing unit, SHU, special handling unit
- French: creux, trou
- German: Loch, Grube, Grübchen, Mulde, Vertiefung, Kerbe
- Italian: buco, pertugio, foro, cunicolo, fessura
- Portuguese: buraco, oco
- Russian: впа́дина
- Spanish: agujero, hoyo (in the ground), abolladura, hendidura, depresión, pozo, buso, forambre
- French: trou
- German: Loch, Öffnung, Riss
- Italian: buco
- Portuguese: buraco
- Russian: отве́рстие
- Spanish: hueco (Spain), abertura, rasgadura, brecha, foramen, portillo
- Italian: buca
- French: trou
- Italian: orifizio, pertugio, cavità
- Portuguese: buraco, orifício, forame
- Russian: отве́рстие
- Spanish: orificio
- Italian: buco, cesso
- Portuguese: buraco, choça
- Russian: дыра́
- Spanish: zulo, tugurio, covacha, cuartucho, tabuco, zaquizamí, chamizo
hole (holes, present participle holing; simple past and past participle holed)
- (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
- Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
- (transitive, by extension) To destroy.
- She completely holed the argument.
- (intransitive) To go into a hole.
- (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
- 1799, Sporting Magazine, volume 13, page 49:
- If the player holes the red ball, he scores three, and upon holing his adversary's ball, he gains two; and thus it frequently happens, that seven are got upon a single stroke, by caramboling and holing both balls.
- Woods holed a standard three foot putt
- (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
- to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars
hole (comparative holer, superlative holest)
- Obsolete spelling of whole
- 1843, Sir George Webbe Dasent (translator), A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue (originally by Rasmus Christian Rask)
- Such was the arrangement of the alphabet over the hole North.
- 1843, Sir George Webbe Dasent (translator), A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue (originally by Rasmus Christian Rask)
- Misspelling of whole
Hole
Etymology
Various origins:
- English topographic surname for someone who lived by a depression, from Old English holh, from Proto-West Germanic *hulwī, from Proto-Germanic *hulwiją.
- Borrowed from Norwegian Hole, a habitational surname from Old Norse hóll.
- Shortened form of Dutch van Hole, a habitational surname from hol ("hole, depression, cavity").
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