hole
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (8)holes
- an opening into or through somethingType of opening, gapKinds leak, bullet hole, rathole, aperture, ozone hole, fuckhole, knothole, perforation, bolt-hole, cranny
- an opening deliberately made in or through somethingType of openingKinds keyhole, vent, perforation, loophole, peephole, puncture, hawse, sound hole, buttonhole, thumbhole +16 more
- one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course“he played 18 holes”Synonyms: golf holeType of playing period, period of playKinds doglegPart of golf course, links course
- an unoccupied spaceType of spaceKinds pore
- a depression hollowed out of solid matterSynonyms: hollowType of natural depression, depressionKinds pit, burrow, pothole, kettle hole, wormhole, rabbit burrow, gopher hole
- a fault“he shot holes in my argument”Type of defect, fault
- informal terms for a difficult situation“he got into a terrible fix”“he made a muddle of his marriage”Synonyms: fixjammessmuddlepicklekettle of fish
- informal terms for the mouthSynonyms: trapcakeholemawyapgob
Verb (2)holes, holed, holing
- hit the ball into the holeSynonyms: hole outMore general hit
- make holes inMore general hollow, hollow out
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Translations
Noun hollow in some surface
- Spanish
- hoyo
- French
- trou
- German
- Loch
- Italian
- buco
- Portuguese
- buraco
- Turkish
- çukur
- Russian
- я́ма jáma
- Arabic
- حُفْرة ḥufra
- Chinese
- 洞 dòng
- Japanese
- 穴 ana
30 more languages
- Dutch
- gat
- Polish
- dziura
- Swedish
- hål
- Greek
- τρύπα trýpa
- Korean
- 구멍 gumeong
- Indonesian
- lubang
- Vietnamese
- lỗ
- Hungarian
- lyuk
- Portuguese (PT)
- buraco
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 穴 xué
- Albanian
- vrimë
- Catalan
- forat
- Czech
- díra
- Danish
- hul
- Esperanto
- truo
- Estonian
- auk
- Finnish
- kolo
- Georgian
- ხვრელი xvreli
- Hebrew
- חור khór
- Icelandic
- hola
- Latvian
- bedre
- Lithuanian
- duobė
- Norwegian
- hull
- Romanian
- gaură
- Slovak
- diera
- Slovenian
- luknja
- Swahili
- tundu
- Walloon
- trô
- Welsh
- twll
- Yiddish
- לאָך lokh
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Whole. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
Origin: OE. hol, hole, AS. hol, hole, cavern, from hol, a., hollow; akin to D. hol, OHG. hol, G. hohl, Dan. huul hollow, hul hole, Sw. hål, Icel. hola; prob. from the root of AS. helan to conceal. See Hele, Hell, and cf. Hold of a ship.
1. 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.
The holes where eyes should be.— William Shakespeare
The blind walls Were full of chinks and holes.— Alfred Tennyson
The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.— 2 Kings xii. 9.
2. An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation. John Dryden
The foxes have holes,... but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.— Luke ix. 58.
3. Games (a) A small cavity used in some games, usually one into which a marble or ball is to be played or driven; hence, a score made by playing a marble or ball into such a hole, as in golf. (b) Fives At Eton College, England, that part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
Synonyms: Hollow; concavity; aperture; rent; fissure; crevice; orifice; interstice; perforation; excavation; pit; cave; den; cell.
Hole and corner, clandestine, underhand. colloquial “The wretched trickery of hole and corner buffery.” Charles Dickens — Hole board Fancy Weaving, a board having holes through which cords pass which lift certain warp threads; — called also compass board.
Origin: AS. holian. See Hole, noun
1. To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars. George Chapman
2. To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.
To go or get into a hole. Ben Jonson
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: 1913 supplement
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.<electronics> In the hole model of current flow, the absence of an electron, e.g. in a semiconductor material. In the electron model, a hole can be thought of as an incomplete outer electron shell in a doping substance. Considering holes as positive charge carriers is a useful abstraction.
2.<security> A security vulnerability, particularly one which allows an attacker to gain unauthorised access to a system (by analogy with a hole in a wall).
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The Jargon File
A region in an otherwise flat entity which is not actually present. For example, some Unix filesystems can store large files with holes so that unused regions of the file are never actually stored on disk. (In techspeak, these are referred to as ‘sparse’ files.) As another example, the region of memory in IBM PCs reserved for memory-mapped I/O devices which may not actually be present is called ‘the I/O hole’, since memory-management systems must skip over this area when filling user requests for memory.