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hole
[hohl]
noun
an opening through something; gap; aperture.
a hole in the roof;
a hole in my sock.
Synonyms: , ,a hollow place in a solid body or mass; a cavity.
a hole in the ground.
Synonyms: , ,the excavated habitation of an animal; burrow.
Synonyms: , , ,a small, dingy, or shabby place.
I couldn't live in a hole like that.
Synonyms: ,a place of solitary confinement; dungeon.
an embarrassing position or predicament.
to find oneself in a hole.
a cove or small harbor.
a fault or flaw.
They found serious holes in his reasoning.
a deep, still place in a stream.
a swimming hole.
Sports.
a small cavity, into which a marble, ball, or the like is to be played.
a score made by so playing.
Golf.
the circular opening in a green into which the ball is to be played.
a part of a golf course from a tee to the hole corresponding to it, including fairway, rough, and hazards.
the number of strokes taken to hit the ball from a tee into the hole corresponding to it.
Informal.opening; slot.
The radio program was scheduled for the p.m. hole.
We need an experienced person to fill a hole in our accounting department.
Metalworking.(in wire drawing) one reduction of a section.
Electronics.a mobile vacancy in the electronic structure of a semiconductor that acts as a positive charge carrier and has equivalent mass.
Aeronautics.an air pocket that causes a plane or other aircraft to drop suddenly.
verb (used with object)
to make a hole or holes in.
to put or drive into a hole.
Golf.to hit the ball into (a hole).
to bore (a tunnel, passage, etc.).
verb (used without object)
to make a hole or holes.
verb phrase
Golfto strike the ball into a hole.
He holed out in five, one over par.
to go into a hole; retire for the winter, as a hibernating animal.
to hide, as from pursuers, the police, etc..
The police think the bank robbers are holed up in Chicago.
hole
/ əʊ /
noun
an area hollowed out in a solid
an opening made in or through something
an animal's hiding place or burrow
informalan unattractive place, such as a town or a dwelling
informala cell or dungeon
informala small anchorage
a fault (esp in the phrase pick holes in )
slanga difficult and embarrassing situation
the cavity in various games into which the ball must be thrust
the cup on each of the greens
each of the divisions of a course (usually 18) represented by the distance between the tee and a green
the score made in striking the ball from the tee into the hole
physics
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
( as modifier )
hole current
a vacancy in the nearly full continuum of quantum states of negative energy of fermions. A hole appears as the antiparticle of the fermion
so worn as to be full of holes
his socks were in holes
in debt
(of a card, the hole card, in stud poker) dealt face down in the first round
to consume or use a great amount of (food, drink, money, etc)
to make a hole in a bottle of brandy
verb
to make a hole or holes in (something)
golf to hit (the ball) into the hole
hole
A gap, usually the valence band of an insulator or semiconductor, that would normally be filled with one electron. If an electron accelerated by a voltage moves into a gap, it leaves a gap behind it, and in this way the hole itself appears to move through the substance. Even though holes are in fact the absence of a negatively charged particle (an electron), they can be treated theoretically as positively charged particles, whose motion gives rise to electric current.
Other 51Թ Forms
- holeless adjective
- holey adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hole1
Idioms and Phrases
burn a hole in one's pocket, to urge one to spend money quickly.
His inheritance was burning a hole in his pocket.
make a hole in, to take a large part of.
A large bill from the dentist made a hole in her savings.
hole in the wall, a small or confining place, especially one that is dingy, shabby, or out-of-the-way.
Their first shop was a real hole in the wall.
pick a hole / holes in, to find a fault or flaw in: Also poke a holeholes in.
As soon as I presented my argument, he began to pick holes in it.
in a / the hole,
in debt; in straitened circumstances.
After Christmas I am always in the hole for at least a month.
Baseball, Softball. pitching or batting with the count of balls or balls and strikes to one's disadvantage, especially batting with a count of two strikes and one ball or none.
Stud Poker. being the card or one of the cards dealt face down in the first round.
a king in the hole.
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Playing partner JJ Spaun was level with Burns for much of the round but bogeyed the final hole to end the day as he started it, one shot back.
One of Othniel's teammates said at the vigil: "There's a hole in the team. He brought us together and it was just a community, a family."
But his day started to unravel with three bogeys in five holes.
Every hole on the course was sponsored by a different brand.
The American had four birdies in his opening eight holes and his is the only bogey-free round halfway through day one.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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