Definition of hole in English English dictionary
- A container or receptacle
car hole; brain hole.
- A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit
- An orifice, in particular the anus
- An excavation pit or trench
- A hollow spot in a surface
Get some popcorn out of that popcorn bucket hole.
- A weakness, a flaw
I have found a hole in your argument.
- 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
- A high-security prison cell, often used as punishment
- The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman
The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.
- To destroy
She completely holed the argument.
- An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel
His apartment is a hole!.
- 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.
- To make holes in (an object or surface)
Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
- In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle
- An opening in a solid
There’s a hole in my bucket.
- {v} to dig or make holes, to drive into a bag as in billiards
- {n} a hallow place, cell, mean habitation, shift
- To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball
- A hole is one of the places on a golf course that the ball must drop into, usually marked by a flag
- an opening deliberately made in or through something
- hit the ball into the hole
- A hole is an opening in something that goes right through it. These tiresome creatures eat holes in the leaves kids with holes in the knees of their jeans
- A small cavity used in some games, usually one into which a marble or ball is to be played or driven; hence, a score made by playing a marble or ball into such a hole, as in golf
- noun - a gap that separates two objects in planespace or lower
- the portion of a game in which the players attempt to hit the ball into a particular hole
- The rear portion of the defensive seam between the shortstop and the third baseman
- one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course; "he played 18 holes"
- (Spatial User's Guide and Reference; search in this book)
- an opening into or through something a depression hollowed out of solid matter an unoccupied space a fault; "he shot holes in my argument"
- An unused square in a Grid that is left empty rather than being shown as a Block Holes are used to create spaces in the middle of grids, or create unconventional outlines such as in Diagramless puzzles
- If you say that you are in a hole, you mean that you are in a difficult or embarrassing situation. He admitted that the government was in `a dreadful hole'
- Same as the pocket
- A hole is the home or hiding place of a mouse, rabbit, or other small animal. a rabbit hole
- a fault; "he shot holes in my argument"
- This can mean the actual hole that you putt into or the entire area between tee and green
- informal terms for the mouth
- make holes in
- A hole is a hollow space in something solid, with an opening on one side. He took a shovel, dug a hole, and buried his once-prized possessions a 60ft hole
- A gap in system memory that is unallocated and unused More casually, a hole is any means by which an intrusion may occur Also, Security Hole
- To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars
- a fictitious mobile particle that behaves as though it is a positively charged particle; holes are produced in the valence band when electrons from the valence band are promoted to the conduction band or an acceptor level of a p-type dopant
- The area in front of the goal between the two and four-meter lines Thus the center forward who plays in this position is generally called the hole-man, shots taken by this player are called hole-shots and the defender is called the hole-guard TOP
- » A chordless polygon (usually, of length at least 4)
- 1) The 1-3 pocket, 1-2 for lefties; 2) another name for "split" (railroad), 4) an open
- an opening into or through something
- make holes in hit the ball into the hole
- To go or get into a hole
- The opening between two linemen through which the ballcarrier plunges
- hollow place or cavity, as in: The groundhog peeped out of his hole in the ground
- A hole is also one of the nine or eighteen sections of a golf course. I played nine holes with Gary Player today
- for semi-conductors and insulators, a vacant electron state in the valence band that behaves as a positive charge carrier in an electric field
- an electron that isn't there! Imagine a tiny bubble of nothing, not even air, in a great sea of water That would be a hole in the water If some of the surrounding water fills the hole, that creates a new hole, so even though it is really the water that moves, you can think of the hole moving through the water In some kinds of semiconductor the electrons responsible for electrical conduction are a bit like water which is packed so tightly in the container that it can't move except to fill any holes that might be there So in electricity a hole is a mobile vacancy in a sea of electrons In many ways it behaves like a positively charged electron
- an opening deliberately made in or through something one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course; "he played 18 holes" an opening into or through something a depression hollowed out of solid matter an unoccupied space a fault; "he shot holes in my argument" make holes in hit the ball into the hole
- The "hole" shall be 4 1/4 inches (108mm) in diameter and at least 4 inches (100 mm) deep If a lining is used, it shall be sunk at least 1 inch (25mm) below the putting green surface unless the nature of the soil makes it impracticable to do so; its outer diameter shall not exceed 4 1/4 inches (108mm)
- a hollow in a surface
- In PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLs, the vacancy where an electron would normally exist in a solid; behaves like a positively charged particle
- {f} excavate, create a hole, perforate
- informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
- 1 41/4 inch diameter hole in the green into which the ball is to be played A flagstick with a flag is usually inserted so the approaching golfers can see more accurately where it is 2 the entire length of the playing area from the teeing ground/tee deck to the putting green (all inclusive) There are 18 holes in a regulation round of golf
- 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
- If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid. He then goes on to pick holes in the article before reaching his conclusion
- The place where a prisoner is kept
- a depression hollowed out of solid matter
- emphasis If you say that you need something or someone like a hole in the head, you are emphasizing that you do not want them and that they would only add to the problems that you already have. We need more folk heroes like we need a hole in the head
- {i} opening, gap; cavity, hollow; burrow, den; pothole; prison cell; dingy dirty place
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc
- an opening deliberately made in or through something one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course; "he played 18 holes"
- To make holes in (an object)
- Your first two down cards in seven card stud If they're both jacks, you have a pair of jacks "in the hole " See also pocket
- Whole
- hole card
- Something held in reserve, or concealed, until it is useful
- hole card
- A playing card, dealt face down, that the holder need not reveal until the showdown
- hole cards
- plural form of hole card
- hole in one
- Any rare, wonderful, or remarkable accomplishment
If we can get the entire thing moved over in a day, it'll be a hole in one with the customer.
- hole in one
- A round that is completed by sinking the ball in a single shot or attempt, with one hit
- hole out
- To complete a hole by sinking the ball
- hole punch
- A tool that is used to make holes in stationery for ease of filing
- hole punches
- plural form of hole punch
- hole state
- a vacant electron energy state near the top of the energy band of a solid; the movement of electrons between such states is the basis of electrical conduction
- hole-and-corner
- Conducted in secret; clandestine
Whatever made you think in the first place that I would give up the security of my happy marriage for a hole-and-corner affair with you?.
- hole-in-the-wall
- a small or obscure place, especially such a restaurant
- hole-in-the-wall
- an automated teller machine (ATM)
- hole punch
- A hole punch (known also as a hole puncher, paper puncher or perforator) is a common office tool, that is used to create holes in sheets of paper, often for the purpose of collecting the sheets in a binder
- hole punch cloud
- (Meteoroloji) A fallstreak hole (also: hole punch cloud, punch hole cloud, canal cloud) is a large circular gap that can appear in cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds. Such holes are formed when the water temperature in the clouds is below freezing but the water has not frozen yet due to the lack of ice nucleation particles. When a portion of the water does start to freeze it will set off a domino effect, due to the Bergeron process, causing the water vapor around it to freeze and fall to the earth as well. This leaves a large, often circular, hole in the cloud
- hole punching
- (Bilgisayar) Hole punching is a computer networking technique for establishing communications between two parties in separate organizations who are both behind restrictive firewalls. Used for applications such as online gaming, P2P and VoIP, both clients establish a connection with an unrestricted third-party server that uncovers external and internal address information for them
- hole-in-the-wall
- A small, very modest, often out-of-the-way place
- hole and corner
- {s} clandestine, secret, underhand; hush hush; conducted secretly
- hole and corner transactions
- transactions conducted secretly
- hole card
- (poker) a playing card dealt face down and not revealed until the showdown any assets that are concealed until they can be used advantageously
- hole card
- (poker) a playing card dealt face down and not revealed until the showdown
- hole card
- any assets that are concealed until they can be used advantageously
- hole in one
- The driving of a golf ball from the tee into the hole in a single stroke
- hole in the air
- = Air hole, above
- hole in the budget
- gap in the budget (possibly due to missing funds)
- hole in the ozone layer
- break in the ozone layer which results in an increase of cancerous radiation in the atmosphere
- hole in the wall
- A small, very modest, often out-of-the-way place
- hole in the wall
- breach in the wall, gap in the wall; out-of-the-way place, small and relatively unknown location
- hole up
- remain secluded or in hiding; "He is writing his book and is holing up in his study"
- hole up
- sleep during winter; "Bears must eat a lot of food before they hibernate in their caves"
- hole up
- If you hole up somewhere, you hide or shut yourself there, usually so that people cannot find you or disturb you. His creative process involves holing up in his Paris flat with the phone off the hook
- hole up
- score a hole in one remain secluded or in hiding; "He is writing his book and is holing up in his study
- hole up
- score a hole in one
- hole-and-corner
- Wells
- hole-and-corner
- relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life; "a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community"- H
- hole-in-the-wall
- a small unpretentious out-of-the-way place; "his office was a hole-in-the-wall"
- hole-in-the-wall
- a small unpretentious out-of-the-way place; "his office was a hole-in-the-wall
- hole-in-the-wall
- A hole-in-the-wall machine is a machine built into the wall of a bank or other building, which allows people to take out money from their bank account by using a special card. = cash dispenser
- Kerr black hole
- An uncharged (q = 0), rotating (L ≠ 0) black hole
- Kerr-Newman black hole
- A charged (q ≠ 0), rotating (L ≠ 0) black hole
- Reissner-Nordström black hole
- A charged (q ≠ 0), nonrotating (L = 0) black hole
- Schwarzschild black hole
- An uncharged (q = 0), nonrotating (L = 0) black hole
- a-hole
- asshole
- ace in the hole
- A hidden or secret strength, or unrevealed advantage
Our ace in the hole left our opponents stupefied; it isn't every day that an NBA star plays street basketball.
- aces in the hole
- plural form of ace in the hole
- air hole
- an air pocket
- air hole
- a hole in any surface that allows air or other gases to pass, especially an opening in the surface of a frozen lake etc
- air hole
- the blowhole of a whale
- analog hole
- The vulnerability in copy protection schemes for non-interactive digital works, whereby the eventual analog output can be copied (as by re-recording music as it plays) even if the digital representation is secure
- analogue hole
- Alternative spelling of analog hole
- ass hole
- Alternative spelling of asshole
- bean hole
- A hole dug in the ground in which beans are cooked
Probably the dish which attracts the most attention in current literature is the ever popular bean-hole beans. The Dutch oven is ideal for making these.
- black hole
- A gravitationally domineering celestial body with an event horizon from which even light cannot escape; the most dense material in the universe, condensed into a singularity, usually formed by a collapsing massive star
- black hole
- A sphere of influence into which or from which communication or similar activity is precluded
you'll have to love U.S. District Court Judge John Kane's decision to keep Denver-based Exactis.com out of an Internet black hole.... MAPS maintains a database of Internet addresses that it believes send or relay spam. It’s called the Realtime Blackhole List.
- black hole
- An entity which consumes time or resources without demonstrable utility
I finished some client work and gave myself 30 minutes to fall down one of my favorite internet black holes: genealogical research. Four hours plus some later, my eyes were burning in my head.
- black-hole
- Attributive form of black hole, noun
- blind hole
- A hole that does not extend completely through the wall; a dead end hole
- blue hole
- A submarine cave or sinkhole, a roughly circular, steep-walled depression that is typically anoxic below a certain depth
- bolt-hole
- a place of escape or secret refuge
- bolt-hole
- a means of escape
- bullet hole
- A circular wound or hole caused by a firearm
The car was covered in bullet holes after the gang shootout.
- bung-hole
- A hole in a vessel, such as a cask, that may be stopped with a bung
Pop a tap in the barrel's bung-hole so you can pour us a round of beer, innkeeper!.
- bung-hole
- The anus
Do you have TP? TP for my bung-hole?.
- burn a hole in one's pocket
- To cause someone to be tempted to spend money
The fortune burned a hole in his pocket, and he could not resist spending several thousand francs on jewelry for Eveline;.
- clearance hole
- A hole in a surface which is large enough to enable screw threads and shank to pass through
- countersunk hole
- A hole which is drilled into a surface, so that when a screw is inserted, the screw head is level with the surface
- dig out of a hole
- To save someone or something from trouble
- donut hole
- A small ball-shaped pastry, made in the same manner as a donut, roughly the size of the hole in a donut
These donut holes are delicious!.
- doughnut hole
- Alternative spelling of donut hole
- f-hole
- A hole, shaped like a lowercase f, through the top surface of a string instrument
- fire in the hole
- A warning of an imminent explosion in a confined space
- glory hole
- originally, a hole in a mineshaft where an orebody is mined upwards until it breaks through the surface into the open air
- glory hole
- in merchant and Royal Navy:
On coal-burning tramp steamers, the stokehold was referred to as the 'glory hole'.
- glory hole
- a military trench
- glory hole
- a hole in a screen or wall big enough to allow an erect penis to be stuck through, made to have anonymous sex with another person. Glory holes are often found in public toilets and are likely to be used for gay male activities
- glory hole
- A hole in the side of a furnace used to heat glass held on a metal rod
- glory-hole
- Alternative spelling of glory hole
- graph hole
- A cycle, in a graph, that has no cycle chord
- hand-hole
- : A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc
- hardy hole
- A square, tapered hole in an anvil used to hold certain blacksmith tools
- hidey-hole
- An isolated or secluded place; a hideaway or hideout
- kettle hole
- A depression in the ground occurring as the result of a large block of ice getting buried by glacial outwash and subsequent melting of it
- like a hole in one's head
- Not
- like a hole in the head
- Not
- lubber's hole
- A hole through the platform surrounding the upper part of a ship's mast, through which one may climb to go aloft
- news hole
- The amount of space in a newspaper or broadcast news show that remains for journalism after advertising has been place; the amount of content a news provider needs to create in every publishing cycle
The news hole just keeps shrinking. Soon, the paper will be just ads.
- nineteenth hole
- The clubhouse at a golf course
- nineteenth hole
- The pub after a game of golf
- overflow hole
- The hole in a sink that prevents it overflowing by diverting excess water to the drain
- ozone hole
- A region of the stratosphere over Antarctica (and a smaller one over the Arctic) that is depleted of ozone in the local spring
Callis says that the ozone hole now developing over the Antarctic is as deep as last year's hole, but seems to cover a smaller area.
- pilot hole
- A narrow hole drilled or punched into a surface, to facilitate the insertion of a wider screw, nail, drill bit, or other boring tool
Nothing prevents splitting the wood as much as first driving a pilot hole, especially for hard wood.
- pilot-hole
- Alternative spelling of pilot hole
- plot hole
- A gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot, or constitutes a blatant omission of relevant information regarding the plot
- pot-hole
- A deep cylindrical hole worn in rock (e.g. in limestone caves) by water
- pot-hole
- A hole in a road made by precipitation and traffic
- pritchel hole
- a round hole in an anvil designed to hold a pritchel or other round-shanked blacksmith tool
- rabbit hole
- The entrance to a rabbit warren
- security hole
- A security vulnerability in a software system
- sink hole
- A depression in the land formed from the collapse or erosion of the underlying rock or soil
- spider hole
- A small hole dug in the ground where someone can hide
The grenade launcher was passed to Davis, who fired a beehive round into the spider hole.
- square peg into a round hole
- Something that does not fit well (or at all); something that will not work as attempted, except possibly with much force and effort
- supermassive black hole
- Any black hole with a mass 105 to a few times 1010 times that of the Sun
- swallow hole
- A sinkhole; A shakehole
- toad in the hole
- A traditional English dish of roasted sausages in batter
- touch hole
- A small hole through which the propellant charge of a cannon or muzzleloading gun is ignited
- touch-hole
- Alternative spelling of touch hole
- watering hole
- A bar or other local drinking establishment
- watering hole
- A depression where water collects and animals come to drink
- white hole
- A theoretically possible but physically highly unlikely singularity which would emit matter and energy; the antithesis of a black hole
- white-hole
- Attributive form of white hole, noun
- wonky hole
- A type of undersea hole or spring on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, out of which comes fresh water that has flowed underground from the land
It was local fishermen who made the most startling seafloor discovery. Something unknown was snagging their nets and nearly capsizing their boats. And they called the mystery – wonky holes. — Australian Broadcasting Commission Catalyst program, 18 May 2006 ().
- eyelet-hole
- {n} a small hole for light or lace
- dig oneself out of a hole
- (deyim) Get out of a difficult situation
We couldn't dig ourselves out of a hole when we were way behind in the game.
- in a hole
- In an embarrassing or difficult position; in some trouble. "When the restaurant cook left at the beginning of the busy season, it put the restaurant owner in a hole."
- ozone hole
- A region of marked thinning of the ozone layer in high latitudes, chiefly in winter, due to CFCs and other atmospheric pollutants
- pigeon hole
- (noun) A small recess (usu. one of a series) for a domestic pigeon to nest in; transf. a small room, apartment, etc. Formerly also (Criminals' slang) the stocks; an instrument in which the hands of culprits were confined, when being flogged
- pigeon hole
- (verb) Furnish with or divide into a set of pigeon-holes
- pigeon hole
- (noun) a.) Any of a series of compartments in a desk or on a wall, open in front, for keeping and sorting papers, letters, etc. b.) fig. Any of a series of categories for the classification of facts, ideas, people, etc. "R. H. Morrieson - I had privately consigned Len Ramsbottom to the pigeon-hole 'lousiest typist ever'."
- pigeon hole
- Assign to a definite place in the memory, or in an ordered group of ideas; categorize mentally. "National Times - He was labelled schizophrenic, a diagnosis flung around to pigeon-hole misfits
- pigeon hole
- ((noun) Typography) An excessively wide space between words. slang
- pigeon hole
- (noun) A hole in a wall or door for the passage of pigeons; transf. any of a series of holes for the passage of liquids, escape of gases, etc
- punch hole cloud
- (Meteoroloji) A fallstreak hole (also: hole punch cloud, punch hole cloud, canal cloud) is a large circular gap that can appear in cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds. Such holes are formed when the water temperature in the clouds is below freezing but the water has not frozen yet due to the lack of ice nucleation particles. When a portion of the water does start to freeze it will set off a domino effect, due to the Bergeron process, causing the water vapor around it to freeze and fall to the earth as well. This leaves a large, often circular, hole in the cloud
- holed
- A ball is "holed" when it is at rest within the circumference of the hole and all of it is below the level of the lip of the hole
- holed
- past of hole
- holed
- Having a hole drilled through it, usually for jewelry use
- holed
- An item, usually a token or ferrotype, made with a hole in it near the edge which is used to suspend the item for viewing The hole does not diminish the button's value and is not a defect
- holed
- A ball which is putted into the hole
- holed
- a coin that has a hole drilled through it, usually so that it can be worn as jewelry
- holed
- Having a hole drilled or punched through it, often so that it may be used for jewelry
- holes
- Also called 'eyes', basically openings in the body of cheeses such as Emmentaler, Gruyere and other Swiss types Such holes are spherical, equally spaced and about the size of cherry stones The holes are caused by bacterial activity which generates prioponic acid causing gas to expand within the curd
- holes
- 'Look' like black holes in the body, feel like infinitely deep deficient emptiness Encountered during some therapies Caused by physical damage to the body
- holes
- third-person singular of hole
- holes
- When an array of atoms in a crystal is missing a conducting electron, it's said to have a "hole " Since conducting electrons are negative, holes are positive Even though holes are an absence of a conducting electron, scientists often talk about holes flowing as if they were real particles
- holes
- plural of hole
- holes
- in semiconductor electronics, the unoccupied spaces for valence electrons in P-type semiconductor
- holes
- One-Hole: Bottom stick side; Two-Hole: Bottom glove side; Three-Hole: Top shelf glove side; Four-Hole: Top shelf stick side; Five-Hole: Between the skates Hooking Applying the blade of the stick to any part of an opponent's body or stick and pulling or tugging with the stick in order to disrupt that opponent Referee Signal: Tugging motion with arms
- holes
- punched positions, indicating that this position is chosen
- holes
- A lack of an electron at the atomic level A hole acts like a positive charge and contributes to current flow in semiconductors
- holing
- present participle of hole
- holing
- Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass