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1.NounA hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure."I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg. I dug a hole and planted a tree in it."
2.NounAn opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent."There’s a hole in my shoe. Her stocking has a hole in it."
3.NounIn games.
A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes."I played 18 holes yesterday. The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.; The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop."
4.NounA subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
5.NounThe part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes."I played 18 holes yesterday. The second hole today cost me three strokes over par."
6.NounThe rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman."The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop."
7.NounA square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
8.NounA card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
9.NounIn the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
10.NounAn excavation pit or trench.
11.NounA weakness; a flaw or ambiguity."I have found a hole in your argument."
12.NounIn semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
13.NounA security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
14.NounAny bodily orifice.
A person's mouth."Just shut your hole!"
15.NounA person's mouth."Just shut your hole!"
16.NounThe anus.
17.NounThe vagina.
18.NounSolitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
19.NounAn undesirable place to live or visit."His apartment is a hole!"
20.NounDifficulty, in particular, debt."If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."
21.NounA chordless cycle in a graph.
22.NounA passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other."We’re supposed to take the hole at Cronk and wait for the Limited to pass."
23.NounA mountain valley."Jackson Hole"
24.VerbTo make holes in (an object or surface)."Shrapnel holed the ship's hull."
25.VerbTo destroy."She completely holed the argument."
26.VerbTo go into a hole.
27.VerbTo drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball."Woods holed a standard three foot putt"
28.VerbTo cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in."to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars"
29.AdjectiveObsolete spelling of whole.
30.AdjectiveMisspelling of whole.