hole
Betekenis (English)
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- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- In games.
- In games.
- In games.
- In games.
- In games.
- In games.
- (slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- (informal) A container or receptacle.
- In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- (slang) A person's mouth.
- (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
- Vagina.
- (informal) Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
- Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (slang) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- A mountain valley.
Concepten
Synonyms
be punctured
have a hole
small opening
positive hole
pits and bumps
golf hole
wire line
hollow place
loop-hole
low ground
open out
pierce through
small hole
eye of needle
dig through
space character
having a hole
drawing lines
dark cell
solitary confinement cell
small pit
dig tunnel
gaping place
apertura
shallow hole
ferme
gap between objects
destitution
hiding-place
shell-hole
Frequentie
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/həʊl/
Etymologie (English)
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.
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