hole
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
hole (plural holes)
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
- There’s a hole in my shoe. Her stocking has a hole in it.
- Bible, 2 Books of Kings xii.9:
- The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [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.
- 1840, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Godiva (poem):
- […] 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: […]
- […] her palfrey’s footfall shot
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175 ↗:
- 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 in a solid.
- There’s a hole in my bucket.
- (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 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.
- 2011, Fun - We Are Young
- But between the drinks and subtle things / The holes in my apologies, you know / I’m trying hard to take it back
- (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, anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
- Just shut your hole!
- (Ireland, Scotland, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
- Are you going out to get your hole tonight?
- (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; a hovel.
- 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.
- 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
- Italian: buco, pertugio, foro, cunicolo, fessura
- Portuguese: buraco, oco
- Russian: дыра́
- Spanish: hueco, agujero, hoyo
- Italian: buca
- Spanish: hoyo
hole (holes, present participle holing; 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
- 1799, Sporting Magazine (volume 13, page 49)
- (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 form of whole#English|whole.
, A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue: - Such was the arrangement of the alphabet over the hole North.
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