hole

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Meaning

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. A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
11. (informal) A container or receptacle.
12. In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
13. A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
14. (slang) A person's mouth.
15. (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
16. Vagina.
17. (informal) Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
18. (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
19. Difficulty, in particular, debt.
20. A chordless cycle in a graph.
21. (slang) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
22. A mountain valley.

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

pula

rima

small hole

eye of needle

dig through

space character

microvesicle

thumbhole

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

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/həʊl/

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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