Hole
[həʊl] or [hol]
Definition
(noun.) an opening deliberately made in or through something.
(noun.) one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course; 'he played 18 holes'.
(noun.) an opening into or through something.
(noun.) a depression hollowed out of solid matter.
(noun.) an unoccupied space.
(noun.) a fault; 'he shot holes in my argument'.
(verb.) make holes in.
(verb.) hit the ball into the hole.
Inputed by Cathleen--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Whole.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
(n.) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.
(v. i.) To go or get into a hole.
Inputed by Errol
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Perforation, aperture, opening.[2]. Cavity, cave, cavern, hollow, concavity, excavation.[3]. Hovel, kennel, den, mean habitation.
Typed by Annette
Definition
n. a hollow place: a cavity: an opening in a solid body: a pit: a subterfuge: a means of escape: a difficult situation: a scrape: a place of hiding a mean lodging a secret room for some disreputable business: (golf) one of the holes 4 in. in diameter into which the ball is played also the distance between any two holes.—v.t. to form holes in: to drive into a hole.—v.i. to go into a hole.—adj. Hole′-and-cor′ner secret: underhand.—ns. Hōling-axe a narrow axe for cutting holes in posts; Hōling-pick a pick used in under-cutting coal.—A hole in one's coat a stain on a person's reputation; Put a person in a hole to put him in a position from which he cannot easily extricate himself; Toad in the hole meat baked in batter &c.
Typist: Vivienne
Examples
- She admires a flower (pink camellia japonica, price half-a-crown), in my button-hole. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Just inside the open end of the oven the floor was scooped out so as to make a hole that would hold a bucket or two of water. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The hole at the bottom of the lowest was covered with a small pot, into the sides of which had been bored a number of holes. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- One turret was now in bright flames, which flashed out furiously from window and shot-hole. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Now we must search the hole again, said Venn. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He held his breath, and listened at the key-hole. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- When this operation is completed, it immediately sets to work to enlarge the hole with the help of its hind legs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The ovens and some deep holes had been equipped as dressing stations. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Small holes a few inches apart are cut along a certain length of rock, into which steel wedges are inserted. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Upon this machine 10,010 button holes have been made in nine hours and fifty minutes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The horses' hoofs have bored holes in these rocks to the depth of six inches during the hundreds and hundreds of years that the castle was garrisoned. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The holes, which usually are about a foot deep, are made by the crab persistently digging up and carrying away little masses of mud or sand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was a machine mounted on two wheels, that had a seed box in the bottom of which was a series of holes opening into a corresponding number of metal tubes or funnels. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The hole at the bottom of the lowest was covered with a small pot, into the sides of which had been bored a number of holes. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- We find no more single-holed films. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- An ideal education would then supply the means of meeting these separate and pigeon-holed interests. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Editor: Nettie