hole

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Pronunciation
/həʊl/
/hoʊl/
Noun
13 definition(s)
1 Definition

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.

Example Sentences
  • There’s a hole in my shoe.  Her stocking has a hole in it.
2 Definition

(heading) In games.

3 Definition

An excavation pit or trench.

4 Definition

A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.

Example Sentences
  • I have found a hole in your argument.
5 Definition

A container or receptacle.

Example Sentences
  • car hole;  brain hole
6 Definition

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

7 Definition

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

8 Definition

An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.

Example Sentences
  • Just shut your hole!
9 Definition

(particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.

Example Sentences
  • Are you going out to get your hole tonight?
10 Definition

(with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.

Synonyms
box
11 Definition

An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.

Example Sentences
  • His apartment is a hole!
12 Definition

Difficulty, in particular, debt.

Example Sentences
  • If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
13 Definition

A chordless cycle in a graph.

Verb
5 definition(s)
1 Definition

To make holes in (an object or surface).

Example Sentences
  • Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
2 Definition

(by extension) To destroy.

Example Sentences
  • She completely holed the argument.
3 Definition

To go into a hole.

4 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • Woods holed a standard three foot putt
5 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars
Adjective
4 definition(s)
1 Definition

Entire, undivided.

Example Sentences
  • I ate a whole fish.
2 Definition

Sound, uninjured, healthy.

Example Sentences
  • He is of whole mind, but the same cannot be said about his physical state.
3 Definition

(of food) From which none of its constituents has been removed.

Example Sentences
  • whole wheat; whole milk
4 Definition

As yet unworked.