hole

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A hollow place or cavity

   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.
   • 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.
2. 2

   An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.

   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.
   • The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.
   • […]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:[…]
3. 3

   In games.

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   1. 4

      An excavation pit or trench.

   2. 5

      A weakness

      A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.

      • I have found a hole in your argument.
      • But between the drinks and subtle things / The holes in my apologies, you know / I’m trying hard to take it back
   3. 6

      In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively…

      In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.

   4. 7

      A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.

   5. 8

      Any bodily orifice.

      • Just shut your hole!
   6. 9

      Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.

      • In late December a Washington State prisoner was involved in a scuffle with a guard who was trying to take him into the hole.
      • Disciplinary actions can range from a mere write up to serious time in the hole.
   7. 10

      An undesirable place to live or visit.

      • His apartment is a hole!
      • I have often heard people say, "One can't live upon a view," and I have heard some of the most beautiful places called "awful holes," simply because of the monotonous lives led in them.
   8. 11

      Difficulty, in particular, debt.

      • If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
      • "Don't you see the hole it has put me into? […] Of course it was too late to have any alteration printed on the first night and now Miss Roscastle is the draw of the piece.
   9. 12

      A chordless cycle in a graph.

   10. 13

       A passing loop

       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.
   11. 14

       A mountain valley.

       • Jackson Hole
   12. 15

       To make holes in (an object or surface).

       • Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
   13. 16

       To destroy.

       • She completely holed the argument.
   14. 17

       To go into a hole.

       • Good master Picklock, with your worming brain, And wriggling engine-head of maintenance, Which I shall see you hole with very shortly! A fine round head, when those two lugs are off, To trundle through a pillory!
   15. 18

       To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.

       • 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
   16. 19

       To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

       • to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars
   17. 20

       Obsolete spelling of whole.

       • Such was the arrangement of the alphabet over the hole North.
   18. 21

       Misspelling of whole.

   19. 22

       A surname.

The neighborhood

• synonymhole
• neighborinterspace
• neighborbreach
• neighborcavity
• neighboropening
• neighborgap
• neighborlacuna
• neighbormouth
• neighboraperture
• neighboroutlet
• neighborcrack
• neighborcleft
• neighborfissure