Hole

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hole \Hole\, v. i.
     To go or get into a hole. --B. Jonson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Hole \Hole\ (h[=o]l), a.
     Whole. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hole \Hole\ (h[=o]l), n. [OE. hol, hole, AS. hol, hole, cavern,
     from hol, a., hollow; akin to D. hol, OHG. hol, G. hohl, Dan.
     huul hollow, hul hole, Sw. h[*a]l, Icel. hola; prob. from the
     root of AS. helan to conceal. See {Hele}, {Hell}, and cf.
     {Hold} of a ship.]
     1. 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.
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              The holes where eyes should be.       --Shak.
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              The blind walls
              Were full of chinks and holes.        --Tennyson.
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              The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the
              lid.                                  --2 Kings xii.
                                                    9.
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     2. 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.
        --Dryden.
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              The foxes have holes, . . . but the Son of man hath
              not where to lay his head.            --Luke ix. 58.
  
     3. (Games)
        (a) 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.
        (b) (Fives) At Eton College, England, that part of the
            floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
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     Syn: Hollow; concavity; aperture; rent; fissure; crevice;
          orifice; interstice; perforation; excavation; pit; cave;
          den; cell.
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     {Hole and corner}, clandestine, underhand. [Colloq.] "The
        wretched trickery of hole and corner buffery." --Dickens.
  
     {Hole board} (Fancy Weaving), a board having holes through
        which cords pass which lift certain warp threads; --
        called also {compass board}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hole \Hole\, v. t. [AS. holian. See {Hole}, n.]
     1. To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a
        post for the insertion of rails or bars. --Chapman.
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     2. To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hole
       n 1: an opening into or through something
       2: an opening deliberately made in or through something
       3: one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course; "he
          played 18 holes" [syn: {golf hole}]
       4: an unoccupied space
       5: a depression hollowed out of solid matter [syn: {hollow}]
       6: a fault; "he shot holes in my argument"
       7: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a
          terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: {fix},
           {jam}, {mess}, {muddle}, {pickle}, {kettle of fish}]
       8: informal terms for the mouth [syn: {trap}, {cakehole}, {maw},
           {yap}, {gob}]
       v 1: hit the ball into the hole [syn: {hole out}]
       2: make holes in

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  419 Moby Thesaurus words for "hole":
     Augean stables, Babylon, CAT, Gomorrah, Sodom, abode, abri, abysm,
     abyss, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole, air pocket, airspace,
     alveolation, alveolus, antre, antrum, aperture, area, armpit,
     arroyo, asylum, auger, basement, basin, bearings, bench mark, bind,
     bite, blemish, blind alley, bolt-hole, booth, bordello, bore, bowl,
     box, box canyon, breach, break, brig, broach, broaching, brothel,
     bug, bump, bunker, burrow, cache, cage, canyon, catch, catch-22,
     cathouse, cave, cavern, cavity, ceiling, cell, cellar, cellarage,
     cellule, chamber, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, clearing,
     cleft, cleuch, clip joint, clough, coal bin, col, compartment,
     concave, concavity, concealment, corner, couch, coulee, couloir,
     countersink, cove, cover, covert, coverture, crack, cranny, crater,
     crevasse, crevice, crib, crosswind, crypt, cubby, cubbyhole,
     cul-de-sac, cup, cut, cwm, cyclone cellar, dark corner, dead end,
     dead-end street, deadlock, deep, defect, defection, deficiency,
     defile, dell, den, den of iniquity, den of thieves, dent,
     depression, depth, difficulty, dike, dilemma, dip, disclosure,
     discontinuity, discrepancy, disrupt, district, ditch, dive,
     doghouse, donga, donjon, draw, drawback, drill, dugout, dump,
     dungeon, earth, empierce, emplacement, empty space, enclosed space,
     error, excavation, extremity, failing, failure, fallacy, fault,
     faute, favorable wind, fenestra, fissure, fistula, fix, flaw,
     fleshpots, flume, fog, foible, fold, follicle, fontanel, foramen,
     form, foxhole, fracture, frailty, front, funk hole, funnel chest,
     furrow, gap, gape, gash, gat, goal, gore, gorge, gouge, gouge out,
     grand slam, groove, grot, grotto, gulch, gulf, gully, gyp joint,
     halt, head wind, hellhole, hiatus, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole,
     hiding, hiding place, high-pressure area, hit, hold, hole in one,
     hollow, hollow shell, home run, homer, honeycomb, hot water, hovel,
     hut, impale, impasse, imperfection, impression, inadequacy,
     incision, inconsistency, indentation, infirmity, inlet, interstice,
     interval, ionosphere, jail, jetstream, joint, keep, kink, kloof,
     lacuna, lair, lance, latitude and longitude, laying open, leak,
     lieu, little problem, locale, locality, location, locus, lodge,
     loophole, low-pressure area, manger, mess, mew, mistake, moat,
     muddle, needle, niche, nook, notch, nullah, open, opening,
     opening up, orifice, oubliette, outlet, overcast, pass, passage,
     passageway, penetrate, perforate, perforation, pesthole, pew,
     pickle, pierce, pigeonhole, pigpen, pigsty, pinch, pink, pinpoint,
     pit, place, placement, plague spot, playhouse, plight, pocket,
     point, pore, position, potato cellar, predicament, prick, prison,
     problem, punch, punch bowl, puncture, ravine, ream, ream out,
     recess, refuge, region, rent, retreat, riddle, rift, rime, rip,
     rookery, roughness, run, run through, rupture, sanctuary, scissure,
     scoop, score, scrape, seam, secret place, sewer, shack, shaft,
     shanty, shell, shortcoming, sink, sink of corruption, sinus, site,
     situation, situs, skewer, slam, slit, slot, slum, snag, socket,
     something missing, soup, space, spear, spike, spit, split,
     sporting house, spot, stab, stable, stalemate, stall, stand,
     standstill, stash, stead, stews, stick, stoma, stop, storm cellar,
     stratosphere, strike, sty, subbasement, substratosphere,
     subterrane, subway, tail wind, taint, tap, tear, tenement,
     the slums, throwing open, tight spot, tight squeeze, touchdown,
     transfix, transpierce, trench, trepan, trephine, tropopause,
     troposphere, trouble, trough, tumbledown shack, tunnel, turbulence,
     uncorking, undercovert, unstopping, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum,
     valley, vault, vent, visibility, visibility zero, void, vug,
     vulnerable place, wadi, warren, weak link, weak point, weakness,
     well, whereabout, whereabouts, whorehouse, wine cellar, yawn,
     yawning abyss
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  hole n. 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.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  hole
       
           The absence of an {electron} in a
          {semiconductor} material.  In the {electron model}, a hole can
          be thought of as an incomplete outer electron shell in a
          doping substance.  Holes can also be thought of as positive
          charge carriers; while this is in a sense a fiction, it is a
          useful abstraction.
       
          (1995-10-06)