hole

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
2. An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
3. In games.
4. In games.
5. In games.
6. In games.
7. In games.
8. In games.
9. (slang) An excavation pit or trench.
10. (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
11. In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
12. A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
13. (derogatory, slang) A person's mouth.
14. (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
15. (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) A vagina.
16. (informal, with-definite-article) Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
17. (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
18. (figuratively) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
19. A chordless cycle in a graph.
20. (slang) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
21. (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.

Verb

1. (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
2. (broadly, transitive) To destroy.
3. (intransitive) To go into a hole.
4. (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
5. (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

Adj

1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete spelling of whole.
2. (alt-of, misspelling) Misspelling of whole.

Conceptes

forat

🕳️

cavitat

foradar

orifici

clot

fossa

🪦

sot

esquerda

galimaties

foia

🕳️

esqueix

embolic

garbuix

batibull

bec

embull

calabós

malla

merder

obertura

Sinònims

pit

cavity

opening

hollow

cave

aperture

perforation

burrow

gap

den

orifice

puncture

breach

slit

slot

crack

leak

fissure

lair

cavern

chink

ditch

crevice

tunnel

mouth

depression

rent

chasm

excavation

dent

pierce

vent

well

window

🪟

cleft

bore

nest

tear

foramen

be punctured

eye

👁️

break

dimple

rift

port

interstice

pothole

gob

pore

fix

Traduccions

trou

🕳️

Loch

🕳️

agujero

🕳️

buco

🕳️

buraco

hueco

gat

hoyo

🕳️

τρύπα

buca

🕳️

kuil

trouer

🕳️

creux

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/həʊl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: hole

Heretat de anglès antic: hol

In summary

Inherited from Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol, from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to hollow.

Frases

I found a little crowd of about twenty people surrounding the huge hole .