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Hole

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Noun

1. hole

an opening into or through something

2. hole

an opening deliberately made in or through something

3. golf hole, hole

one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course

Example Sentences:
'he played 18 holes'

4. hole

an unoccupied space

5. hole, hollow

a depression hollowed out of solid matter

6. hole

a fault

Example Sentences:
'he shot holes in my argument'

7. fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle

informal terms for a difficult situation

Example Sentences:
'he got into a terrible fix'
'he made a muddle of his marriage'

8. cakehole, gob, hole, maw, trap, yap

informal terms for the mouth

Verb

9. hole, hole out

hit the ball into the hole

10. hole

make holes in

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Hole

see synonyms of hole
noun
1. 
an area hollowed out in a solid
2. 
an opening made in or through something
3. 
an animal's hiding place or burrow
4. informal
an unattractive place, such as a town or a dwelling
5. informal
a cell or dungeon
6. US informal
a small anchorage
7. 
a fault (esp in the phrase pick holes in)
8. slang
a difficult and embarrassing situation
9. 
the cavity in various games into which the ball must be thrust
10. (on a golf course)
a. 
the cup on each of the greens
b. 
each of the divisions of a course (usually 18) represented by the distance between the tee and a green
c. 
the score made in striking the ball from the tee into the hole
11. physics
a. 
a vacancy in a nearly full band of quantum states of electrons in a semiconductor or an insulator. Under the action of an electric field holes behave as carriers of positive charge
b. 
(as modifier)
hole current
c. 
a vacancy in the nearly full continuum of quantum states of negative energy of fermions. A hole appears as the antiparticle of the fermion
12.  in holes
13.  in the hole
14.  make a hole in
verb
15. 
to make a hole or holes in (something)
16. (when intr, often foll by out) golf
to hit (the ball) into the hole

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Hole

see synonyms of hole
noun
1. 
a hollow or hollowed-out place; cavity
; specif.,
a. 
an excavation or pit
b.  US
a small bay or inlet; cove
often in place names
c. 
a pool or deep, relatively wide place in a stream
a swimming hole
d. 
an animal's burrow or lair; den
2. 
a small, dingy, squalid place; any dirty, badly lighted room, house, etc.
3. 
a. 
an opening in or through anything; break; gap
a hole in the wall
b. 
a tear or rent, or a place where fabric is worn away, as in a garment
4. 
a flaw; fault; blemish; defect
holes in an argument
5.  Informal
an embarrassing situation or position; predicament
6.  Golf
a. 
a small, cylindrical cup sunk into a green, into which a ball is to be hit
b. 
any of the distinct sections of a course, including the tee, the fairway, and the green
played the fifth hole in par
7.  Physics and Electronics
a vacancy in a semiconductor, crystal, etc. left by the loss or absence of an electron: in some semiconductors it acts as a carrier of a positive electric charge
verb transitiveWord forms: holed or ˈholing
8. 
to make a hole or holes in
9. 
to put, hit, or drive into a hole
10. 
to create by making a hole
to hole a tunnel through a mountain

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Hole

see synonyms of hole
n.
1. A hollowed place in something solid; a cavity or pit: dug a hole in the ground with a shovel.
2.
a. An opening or perforation: a hole in the clouds; had a hole in the elbow of my sweater.
b. Sports An opening in a defensive formation, such as the area of a baseball infield between two adjacent fielders.
c. A fault or flaw: There are holes in your argument.
3. A deep place in a body of water.
4. An animal's hollowed-out habitation, such as a burrow.
5. An ugly, squalid, or depressing dwelling.
6. A deep or isolated place of confinement; a dungeon.
7. An awkward situation; a predicament.
8. Sports
a. The small pit lined with a cup into which a golf ball must be hit.
b. One of the divisions of a golf course, from tee to cup.
9. Physics A vacant position in an atom left by the absence of a valence electron, especially a position in a semiconductor that acts as a carrier of positive electric charge. Also called electron hole.
v. holed, hol·ing, holes
v.tr.
1. To put a hole in.
2. To put or propel into a hole.
v.intr.
To make a hole in something.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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