Hollow
['hɒləʊ] or ['hɑlo]
Definition
(noun.) a small valley between mountains; 'he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians'.
(noun.) a cavity or space in something; 'hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks'.
(verb.) remove the interior of; 'hollow out a tree trunk'.
(adj.) as if echoing in a hollow space; 'the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom' .
(adj.) not solid; having a space or gap or cavity; 'a hollow wall'; 'a hollow tree'; 'hollow cheeks'; 'his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year' .
Inputed by Donald--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.
(a.) Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
(a.) Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.
(a.) Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.
(n.) A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.
(n.) A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.
(v. t.) To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.
(adv.) Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv.
(interj.) Hollo.
(v. i.) To shout; to hollo.
(v. t.) To urge or call by shouting.
Editor: Ozzie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Vacant, empty, void, cavernous, not solid.[2]. Insincere, treacherous, false, faithless, hypocritical, pharisaical, deceitful, false-hearted, hollow-hearted.[3]. Deep, low, rumbling.
n. [1]. Depression, low spot, low place.[2]. Cavity, concavity, depression, excavation, hole, cave, cavern, dent, dint, dimple, pit.[3]. Groove, channel, canal.
v. a. Excavate, scoop.
ad. [Low.] Wholly, completely, utterly.
Edited by Augustus
Definition
adj. vacant: not solid: containing an empty space: sunken: unsound: insincere.—n. a hole: a cavity: any depression in a body: any vacuity: a groove: a channel.—v.t. to make a hole in: to make hollow by digging: to excavate.—adv. completely: clean.—adjs. Holl′ow-eyed having sunken eyes; Holl′ow-heart′ed having a hollow or untrue heart: faithless: treacherous.—adv. Holl′owly (Shak.) in a hollow or insincere manner.—ns. Holl′owness the state of being hollow: cavity: insincerity: treachery; Holl′ow-ware trade name for hollow articles of iron as pots and kettles.—Beat hollow to beat wholly.
Inputed by Dan
Examples
- The grate might have been the old brazier, and the glow might have been the old hollow down by the flare. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr. Vholes gives it a rap, and it sounds as hollow as a coffin. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If they have surrounded the hollow it is that, Robert Jordan said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Whate'er they be, I'll eat my head, But I will beat them hollow. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Here, bending towards Mr. Pickwick, he whispered in a deep, hollow voice, 'A Buff ball, Sir, will take place in Birmingham to-morrow evening. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Briarmains being nearer than the Hollow, Mr. Yorke had conveyed his young comrade there. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I descended to the bottom of the hollow, squeezed my way through a hedge, and got out into a lane. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The daily appearance of a brougham and pair could hardly have been overlooked in such Sleepy Hollows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Sometimes the path led her to hollows between thickets of tall and dripping bracken, dead, though not yet prostrate, which enclosed her like a pool. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It is the natural hill, with its mossy breaks and hollows, whose slope invites ascent, whose summit it is pleasure to gain. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His complexion was of a gipsy darkness; his fleshless cheeks had fallen into deep hollows, over which the bone projected like a pent-house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The dusk was just dimming the hollows of crowded houses. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The hollows in which London and Paris lie are both perforated in many places by borings of this nature. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was a sunny afternoon at the beginning of summer, and the moist hollows of the heath had passed from their brown to their green stage. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The poles of the electromagnet in the local circuit are hollowed out and filled up with carbon disks or powdered plumbago. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Roughly pyramidal in shape and hollowed out, I perceive. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Canoes are made of logs hollowed out, or of birch bark stretched over a light frame, skilfully fastened with deers’ sinews and rendered water-tight by pitch. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Conceive a dell, deep-hollowed in forest secresy; it lies in dimness and mist: its turf is dank, its herbage pale and humid. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Then came the hollowing out of the trees, and then, with the development of tools and a primitive carpentry, the building of boats. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Diana