hole
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -əʊl
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Audio (US): (file) Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊl
- Homophone: whole
Etymology 1
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”). Related to hollow.
Noun
hole (plural holes)
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg. I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.
- c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
- To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks.
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- There’s a hole in my shoe. Her stocking has a hole in it.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 12:9:
- The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.
- 1840, Alfred Tennyson, Godiva:
- […] her palfrey’s footfall shot
Light horrors thro’ her pulses: the blind walls
Were full of chinks and holes; and overhead
Fantastic gables, crowding, stared: […]
- […] her palfrey’s footfall shot
- (heading) In games.
- (golf) 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.
- (golf) 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.
- (baseball) 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.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- I have found a hole in your argument.
- 2011, Fun - We Are Young
- But between the drinks and subtle things / The holes in my apologies, you know / I’m trying hard to take it back
- (informal) A container or receptacle.
- car hole; brain hole
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- (slang, anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
- Just shut your hole!
- (Ireland, Scotland, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
- Are you going out to get your hole tonight?
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- Synonym: box
- 2011, Ahmariah Jackson, IAtomic Seven, Locked Up but Not Locked Down
- Disciplinary actions can range from a mere write up to serious time in the hole.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
- His apartment is a hole!
- (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- We’re supposed to take the hole at Cronk and wait for the Limited to pass.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:hole
- (solitary confinement): administrative segregation, ad-seg, block (UK), box, cooler (UK), hotbox, lockdown, pound, SCU, security housing unit, SHU, special handling unit
Derived terms
- ace in the hole
- arsehole, asshole
- Beck Hole
- black hole, blackhole
- blowhole
- bolthole
- borehole
- bullet hole
- burn a hole in one's pocket
- button hole, buttonhole
- c-hole
- cakehole
- cathole
- countersunk hole
- cubby hole, cubbyhole
- donut hole
- d-hole
- doghole
- Dove Holes
- dry hole
- electron hole
- f-hole
- ff-hole
- firehole
- fox-hole, fox hole, foxhole
- glory hole
- gnamma hole
- gunk-hole
- hellhole
- Hetton-le-Hole
- hole in one
- hole-in-the-wall
- hole punch
- hole state
- holey
- honey hole
- in the hole
- keyhole
- know one's ass from a hole in the ground
- loophole
- man-hole, manhole
- mouse-hole, mousehole
- nineteenth hole
- oarhole
- pesthole
- pigeonhole
- pilot hole
- plughole
- poophole
- pothole
- potholing
- pritchel hole
- rathole
- s-hole
- sink hole, sinkhole
- sound hole
- toad-in-the-hole
- top-hole
- touch hole, touchhole
- watering hole
- white hole
- wonky hole
Descendants
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Verb
hole (third-person singular simple present holes, present participle holing, simple past and past participle holed)
- (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
- Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
- (transitive, by extension) To destroy.
- She completely holed the argument.
- (intransitive) To go into a hole.
- 1631, Ben Jonson, The Staple of News, Act IV, scene ii:
- Good master Picklock, with your worming brain,
And wriggling engine-head of maintenance,
Which I shall see you hole with very shortly!
A fine round head, when those two lugs are off,
To trundle through a pillory!
- (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
- 1799, Sporting Magazine (volume 13, page 49)
- If the player holes the red ball, he scores three, and upon holing his adversary's ball, he gains two; and thus it frequently happens, that seven are got upon a single stroke, by caramboling and holing both balls.
- Woods holed a standard three foot putt
- 1799, Sporting Magazine (volume 13, page 49)
- (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
- to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars
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Etymology 2
Adjective
hole (comparative holer or more hole, superlative holest or most hole)
- Obsolete spelling of whole..
- 1843, Sir George Webbe Dasent (translator), A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue (originally by Rasmus Christian Rask)
- Such was the arrangement of the alphabet over the hole North.
- 1843, Sir George Webbe Dasent (translator), A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue (originally by Rasmus Christian Rask)
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
hole
- inflection of hůl:
Verb
hole
German
Pronunciation
Verb
hole
- inflection of holen:
Hausa
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Verb
hōlḕ (grade 4)
- to relax, to enjoy oneself
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English hāl.
Adjective
hole
Alternative forms
References
- “hōl(e, adj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Adverb
hole
Alternative forms
References
- “hōl(e, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Noun
hole (plural holes)
Alternative forms
References
- “hōl(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Old English hol.
Noun
Alternative forms
Descendants
References
- “hō̆l(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
From Old English hulu; see hull for more.
Noun
hole (plural holes)
Alternative forms
Descendants
References
- “hol(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 4
Verb
hole
- past participle of helen (“to cover”)
- Synonym: heled
Alternative forms
Etymology 5
Adjective
hole
- Alternative form of hol (“hollow”)
Etymology 6
Noun
hole (uncountable)
- Alternative form of oile (“oil”)
Etymology 7
Noun
hole (plural holen)
- Alternative form of oule (“owl”)
Etymology 8
Adjective
hole
- Alternative form of holy (“holy”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
hole f or m (definite singular hola or holen, indefinite plural holer, definite plural holene)
- alternative form of hule
References
- “hole” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- hòle
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
hole f (definite singular hola, indefinite plural holer, definite plural holene)
Derived terms
References
- “hole” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
From Middle High German holen, from Old High German holon, from Proto-West Germanic *holōn (“to fetch”). Compare German holen, Dutch halen. Related to English haul.
Verb
hole
- to fetch
Slovak
Pronunciation
Noun
hole f
- inflection of hoľa:
Sotho
Noun
hole class 17 (uncountable)
Yola
Verb
hole
- Alternative form of helt
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 47
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