hole
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /həʊl/, [hɔʊɫ]
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /hɐʉl/, [hɔʊɫ]
- (General American) IPA(key): /hoʊl/, [hoɫ]
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊl
- Homophone: whole
Etymology 1
[edit]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.
Noun
[edit]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: […]
- (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 the 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 (lyrics and music), “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
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (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, derogatory) A person's mouth.
- Just shut your hole!
- (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
- (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) Vagina.
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- Synonym: box
- 1988 April 2, Ed Mead, “AIDS hysteria sweeps prison guards' union”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
- In late December a Washington State prisoner was involved in a scuffle with a guard who was trying to take him into the hole.
- 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.
- His apartment is a hole!
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 109:
- I have often heard people say, "One can't live upon a view," and I have heard some of the most beautiful places called "awful holes," simply because of the monotonous lives led in them.
- (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.
- (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
- Jackson Hole
Synonyms
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ace in the hole
- a-hole
- airhole
- air hole
- analog hole
- analogue hole
- anthole
- antihole
- arm hole
- armhole
- arrow-hole
- arsehole
- ash-hole
- asshole
- ass hole
- Aubrey hole
- batty hole
- beam hole
- beanhole
- bean hole
- Beck Hole
- bench-hole
- black hole
- black-hole
- blackhole
- blasthole
- blind hole
- blockhole
- blow a hole through
- blowhole
- blue hole
- bolthole
- bolt-hole
- bonus hole
- bootyhole
- borehole
- boy hole
- BTZ black hole
- bullet hole
- bullethole
- bum hole
- bumhole
- bung-hole
- burn a hole in one's pocket
- burn a hole in someone's pocket
- burr hole
- butthole
- buttonhole
- button hole
- button-hole
- cakehole
- cat hole
- cat-hole
- cathole
- c-hole
- chuckhole
- clearance hole
- cloud hole
- coal hole
- cockhole
- cookie hole
- corehole
- core hole
- cornhole
- coronal hole
- couldn't piss a hole in the snow
- countersunk hole
- crabhole
- cradle hole
- craphole
- creephole
- cryoconite hole
- cubbyhole
- cubby hole
- cumhole
- cum hole
- cum-hole
- cyberhole
- Dane-hole
- denehole
- d-hole
- dickhole
- dig a hole for oneself
- dig oneself in a hole
- dig oneself into a hole
- dig out of a hole
- dihole
- docker hole
- doghole
- donut hole
- dookie hole
- doughnut hole
- Dove Holes
- downhole
- down-hole
- dreamhole
- drinking hole
- driphole
- drophole
- dry hole
- dumb hole
- dunghole
- dusthole
- dust hole
- earhole
- earthhole
- egg-in-a-hole
- egg in a hole
- electron hole
- eyehole
- facehole
- fallstreak hole
- farthole
- feedhole
- ff-hole
- f-hole
- fingerhole
- finger hole
- firehole
- fire in the hole
- five-hole
- floss hole
- foothole
- fox-hole
- fox hole
- foxhole
- front hole
- fuckhole
- funk hole
- funkhole
- get one's hole
- glory hole
- glory-hole
- gnamma hole
- gobble hole
- go five-hole
- graph hole
- gully-hole
- gunk-hole
- hand-hole
- handhole
- hardie hole
- hardy hole
- hawsehole
- Hell hole
- hell hole
- hellhole
- hell-hole
- Hetton-le-Hole
- hide-hole
- hidey-hole
- high-hole
- hole-and-corner
- hole-board test
- hole card
- hole carding
- holeful
- hole in one
- hole in the head
- hole-in-the-wall
- holeless
- holelike
- holeproof
- hole punch
- holepunch
- hole punch cloud
- hole saw
- holeshot
- hole state
- holey
- holk
- holyhedron
- honey hole
- hulk
- ice hole
- in the hole
- jackhole
- Jackson Hole
- jaw-hole
- Johnson hole
- Judas-hole
- Kerr black hole
- Kerr-Newman black hole
- kettle hole
- keyhole
- K-hole
- kilnhole
- kneehole
- knothole
- know one's ass from a hole in the ground
- know one's head from a hole in the ground
- know someone from a hole in the ground
- know someone from a hole in the wall
- know the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground
- knuckerhole
- knucker hole
- lamphole
- leghole
- like a hole in one's head
- like a hole in the head
- like one needs a hole in the head
- linnet hole
- loophole
- loop hole
- love hole
- lubber's hole
- lughole
- maintenance hole
- manhole
- man-hole
- mayhole
- melon hole
- memory hole
- memory-hole
- microhole
- minihole
- miracle hole
- Mohole
- mousehole
- mouse-hole
- mudhole
- multihole
- murder-hole
- murder hole
- nanohole
- neckhole
- nesthole
- news hole
- nineteenth hole
- nosehole
- oar-hole
- oarhole
- optical black hole
- outhole
- overflow hole
- ozone hole
- peehole
- peekhole
- peephole
- pesthole
- photohole
- pick a hole in someone's coat
- pie hole
- piehole
- pie-hole
- pigeon hole
- pigeon-hole
- pigeonhole
- pilot hole
- pilot-hole
- pin-hole
- pinhole
- pisshole
- placket hole
- plot hole
- plughole
- pocket-hole
- pocket-hole jig
- poophole
- pophole
- porthole
- posthole
- pot-hole
- pot hole
- pothole
- potholing
- priest hole
- priest's hole
- primordial black hole
- pritchel hole
- pseudohole
- pukehole
- punch hole
- pussyhole
- pussyo
- put the wood in the hole
- quasihole
- quiggly hole
- rabbit hole
- rathole
- rat hole
- regular black hole
- Reissner-Nordström black hole
- ringhole
- rockhole
- rock hole
- roothole
- rudderhole
- rum hole
- Schwarzschild black hole
- scumhole
- scupper hole
- security hole
- shakehole
- s-hole
- shothole
- sighthole
- sink-hole
- sink hole
- sinkhole
- sleazehole
- slimehole
- sludge hole
- slut hole
- smokehole
- snowhole
- snowman hole
- sound hole
- spider hole
- spithole
- spouthole
- spyhole
- square peg in a round hole
- stakehole
- starting hole
- stinkhole
- stokehole
- stumphole
- suckhole
- supermassive black hole
- swallow hole
- sweat hole
- swimming hole
- swirlhole
- tailhole
- taphole
- teaze-hole
- through-hole technology
- thru-hole technology
- thumbhole
- toad in a hole
- toad in the hole
- toad-in-the-hole
- tone hole
- top hole
- top-hole
- touch-hole
- touchhole
- touch hole
- traphole
- underhole
- uphole
- venthole
- water-hole
- waterhole
- water hole
- watering hole
- watering hole attack
- weephole
- wellhole
- white hole
- winding hole
- wonky hole
- woodhole
- Wookey Hole
- wool-hole
- word hole
- work the hole
- wormhole
Descendants
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Verb
[edit]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
- (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
- to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]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)
- Misspelling of whole.
Anagrams
[edit]Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]hole
- inflection of hůl:
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]hole
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]hole
- inflection of holen:
Hausa
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]hōlḕ (grade 4)
- to relax, to enjoy oneself
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old English hāl.
Adjective
[edit]hole
Alternative forms
[edit]References
[edit]- “hōl(e, adj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Adverb
[edit]hole
Alternative forms
[edit]References
[edit]- “hōl(e, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Noun
[edit]hole (plural holes)
Alternative forms
[edit]References
[edit]- “hōl(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Old English hol.
Noun
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “hō̆l(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
[edit]Inherited from Old English hulu; see hull for more.
Noun
[edit]hole (plural holes)
Alternative forms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “hol(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 4
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]hole
- past participle of helen (“to cover”)
- Synonym: heled
Etymology 5
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hole
- Alternative form of hol (“hollow”)
Etymology 6
[edit]Noun
[edit]hole (uncountable)
- Alternative form of oile (“oil”)
Etymology 7
[edit]Noun
[edit]hole (plural holen)
- Alternative form of oule (“owl”)
Etymology 8
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hole
- Alternative form of holy (“holy”)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]hole f or m (definite singular hola or holen, indefinite plural holer, definite plural holene)
- alternative form of hule
References
[edit]- “hole” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- hòle
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hole f (definite singular hola, indefinite plural holer, definite plural holene)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “hole” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
[edit]Noun
[edit]hole
Pennsylvania German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited 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
[edit]hole
- to fetch
Slovak
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hole f
- inflection of hoľa:
Sotho
[edit]Noun
[edit]hole class 17 (uncountable)
Yola
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /hɔːɫ/
- Homophones: hol, houle
Verb
[edit]hole
- past participle of helt
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 84:
- Yith Muzleare had ba hole, t'was mee Tommeen,
- If Good-for-little had been buried, it had been my Tommy,
References
[edit]- 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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