What does hole mean?
Definitions for hole
hoʊlhole
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word hole.
Princeton's WordNet
holenoun
an opening into or through something
holenoun
an opening deliberately made in or through something
hole, golf holenoun
one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
"he played 18 holes"
holenoun
an unoccupied space
hole, hollownoun
a depression hollowed out of solid matter
holenoun
a fault
"he shot holes in my argument"
fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fishnoun
informal terms for a difficult situation
"he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
trap, cakehole, hole, maw, yap, gobverb
informal terms for the mouth
hole, hole outverb
hit the ball into the hole
holeverb
make holes in
Wiktionary
holenoun
A hollow spot in a surface.
Get some popcorn out of that popcorn bucket hole.
holenoun
An opening in a solid.
There's a hole in my bucket.
holenoun
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.
holenoun
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.
holenoun
An excavation pit or trench.
holenoun
A weakness, a flaw
I have found a hole in your argument.
holenoun
A container or receptacle.
car hole; brain hole
holenoun
In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
holenoun
A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
holeverb
To make holes in (an object or surface).
Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
holeverb
To destroy.
She completely holed the argument.
holenoun
An orifice, in particular the anus.
holenoun
A high-security prison cell, often used as punishment.
holenoun
An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel
His apartment is a hole!
holenoun
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.
Etymology: from hol 'orifice, hollow place', from hulan (compare hool, Höhle, holr), noun form of hulaz 'hollow'. More at hollow.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Holenoun
Etymology: hol, Dutch; hole, Saxon.
The earth had not a hole to hide this deed. William Shakespeare.
Tickling is most in the soles, and under the arm holes and sides. Francis Bacon.
A loadstone is so disposed, that it shall draw unto it, on a reclined plane, a bullet of steel, which, as it ascends near to the loadstone, may fall down through some hole, and so return to the place whence it began to move. John Wilkins, Dædalus.
There are the tops of the mountains, and under their roots in holes and caverns the air is often detained. Burnet.
Look upon linen that has small holes in it: those holes appear very black, and men are often deceived in taking holes for spots of ink; and painters, to represent holes, make use of black. Robert Boyle, on Colours.
Upon his bloody finger he doth wear
A precious ring, that lightens all the hole. William Shakespeare.A tortoise spends all his days in a hole, with a house upon his head. Roger L'Estrange.
I have frighted ants with my fingers, and pursued them as far as another hole, stopping all passages to their own nest, and it was natural for them to fly into the next hole. Addison.
When Alexander first beheld the face
Of the great cynick, thus he did lament:
How much more happy thou, that art content
To live within this little hole, than I
Who after empire, that vain quarry, fly. John Dryden, Juven.
Wikipedia
Hole
A hole is an opening in or through a particular medium, usually a solid body. Holes occur through natural and artificial processes, and may be useful for various purposes, or may represent a problem needing to be addressed in many fields of engineering. Depending on the material and the placement, a hole may be an indentation in a surface (such as a hole in the ground), or may pass completely through that surface (such as a hole created by a hole puncher in a piece of paper).
ChatGPT
hole
A hole generally refers to a hollow or empty space within a solid object or surface. It can include a gap, opening or aperture made intentionally or occurring naturally. In different contexts, a hole can refer to a deficiency, an absence, or a problematic situation. It is used in multiple fields such as physics, golf, clothing, and more, each with its own specific meaning.
Webster Dictionary
Holeadjective
whole
Holenoun
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
Holenoun
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
Holenoun
to cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars
Holenoun
to drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball
Holeverb
to go or get into a hole
Etymology: [AS. holian. See Hole, n.]
Wikidata
Hole
Hole was an American alternative rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1989. The band was fronted by vocalist, lyricist, and rhythm guitarist Courtney Love, who formed Hole with lead guitarist Eric Erlandson. Hole had a revolving line-up of bassists and drummers, their most prolific being drummer Patty Schemel, and bassists Kristen Pfaff and Melissa Auf der Maur. Hole achieved considerable commercial and critical success throughout the 1990s, initially releasing singles through independent labels and debuting with their caustic noise rock-influenced Pretty on the Inside, and later gaining critical acclaim for their 1994 album Live Through This. The band began to incorporate elements of power pop into their sound in the late 1990s, specifically on their third album, Celebrity Skin, which went on to be their most commercially successful release, garnering them widespread critical attention and several Grammy nominations. The group officially disbanded in 2002 and its members began solo careers and other projects. In 2009, Love announced she was reforming Hole as the sole returning member. Erlandson, however, stated that no reunion could take place contractually without mutual involvement. On January 1, 2010, a website promoting Hole's latest release, Nobody's Daughter, was launched, with links to various social media pages. Despite the dispute between Erlandson and Love, Nobody's Daughter was released in April 2010, and the reformed band toured extensively in Europe and North America. In November 2012, however, Love stated on her Twitter account that she was working now under her own name as a solo artist, and that "Hole is dead".
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Hole
hōl, 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. [A.S. hol, a hole, cavern; Dut. hol, Dan. hul, Ger. hohl, hollow; conn. with Gr. koilos, hollow.]
Hole
adj. (Spens.) whole.
The New Hacker's Dictionary
hole
A region in an otherwise flat entity which is not actually present. For example, some Unix filesystems can store large files with holes so that unused regions of the file are never actually stored on disk. (In techspeak, these are referred to as ‘sparse’ files.) As another example, the region of memory in IBM PCs reserved for memory-mapped I/O devices which may not actually be present is called ‘the I/O hole’, since memory-management systems must skip over this area when filling user requests for memory.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
hole
A clear open space amongst ice in the Arctic seas.
Rap Dictionary
holenoun
Vagina.
holenoun
Gun chamber. "16 in the clip and one in the hole" -- Nate Dogg (Regulate).
holenoun
Sunroof. "Woodgrain and leather, with a hole" -- Nelly
holenoun
hole in your Head. (ur Brain)(can be, that meas, that u are stupid.) Don Dave
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
HOLE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hole is ranked #16130 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Hole surname appeared 1,794 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Hole.
92.3% or 1,656 total occurrences were White.
2.5% or 45 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
2.2% or 40 total occurrences were Asian.
1.6% or 30 total occurrences were Black.
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British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'hole' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2404
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'hole' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1503
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'hole' in Nouns Frequency: #651
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of hole in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of hole in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of hole in a Sentence
The drive on 14 was a hellacious bomb. That thing was way out there, i can rarely reach that hole ever (in two shots) and I had four-iron in, so that thing was pretty nasty.
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose.
Termites swarm in the spring, if there’s a bunch of winged insects flying out of a hole in the woodwork, that’s probably termites. Call a licensed professional pest control company. You’ll save money and trouble in the long run.
Most dietary recommendations that one can think of are based on one of these grading systems, however, what people didn't highlight, or maybe they didn't fully appreciate, is that there are profound differences between individuals. In some cases, individuals have opposite responses to one another, and this is really a big hole in the literature.
The Republicans keep wanting people to believe you can have things without paying for them, if they want to pull the medical profession and the public through the rat hole, that’s their privilege.
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Translations for hole
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- حفرةArabic
- dəlik, deşikAzerbaijani
- соҡор, тишек, тишеүBashkir
- дзіркаBelarusian
- яма, дупкаBulgarian
- হোলBengali
- forat, foradarCatalan, Valencian
- díra, jamka, slabina, kazCzech
- hulDanish
- LochGerman
- τρύπα, οπήGreek
- truoEsperanto
- hoyo, hueco, agujeroSpanish
- aukEstonian
- سوراخPersian
- aukko, loukko, reikä, kuoppa, pytty, kolo, rei'ittää, [[tehdä]] [[reikä]], läpäistäFinnish
- holFaroese
- creux, trou, faille, mitard, trouerFrench
- pollIrish
- buratoGalician
- towlManx
- חורHebrew
- lyukHungarian
- ծակ, անցքArmenian
- truoIdo
- gat, hola, gera gat áIcelandic
- 穴Japanese
- ნახვრეტიGeorgian
- жыртық, тесікKazakh
- រូងKhmer
- kun, کون, چاڵKurdish
- anga, duobė, kiaurymė, skylėLithuanian
- dobums, caurums, bedreLatvian
- дупкаMacedonian
- нүхMongolian
- lubangMalay
- opening, holte, holletje, leemte, lichaamsholte, gaatje, gat, hole, doorboren, doorzevenDutch
- hol, hullNorwegian
- traucOccitan
- otwór, dziura, wykop, karcer, dołek, słaby punkt, noraPolish
- furo, oco, brecha, buraco, esburacarPortuguese
- gaurăRomanian
- дырка, дыра, яма, отверстиеRussian
- otvor, отворSerbo-Croatian
- dieraSlovak
- luknjaSlovene
- hål, slå hål, punktera, göra hålSwedish
- రంధ్రంTelugu
- сурохTajik
- หลุมThai
- delikTurkish
- діркаUkrainian
- hogVolapük
- trawerWalloon
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