hole

hole

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/həʊl/]

Senses

1. hole (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.

Example: I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg.  I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.

2. hole (noun) — sense 2

Definition: An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.

Example: There’s a hole in my shoe.  Her stocking has a hole in it.

3. hole (noun) — sense 3

Definition: In 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.

4. hole (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To make holes in (an object or surface).

Example: Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.

5. hole (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To destroy.

Example: She completely holed the argument.

6. hole (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To go into a hole.

Example: Good master Picklock, with your worming brain,
And wriggling engine-head of maintenance,
Which I shall see you hole with very shortly!
A fine round head, when those two lugs are off,
To trundle through a pillory!

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