hole
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Proto-Germanic *hulaz
Proto-Germanic *hulą
Proto-West Germanic *hol
Old English hol
Middle English hole
English hole
Inherited from Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol (“hole”), from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to hollow.
Cognate with Dutch, Faroese, and Icelandic hol (“hole”), Danish hul (“hole”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norn hola (“hole”), Norwegian Bokmål hol (“depression, hole, cavern”), Swedish hål (“hole”), French houle (“swell of water”). Compare unrelated Finnish kolo (“hole”).
Inflected forms:
form: holes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: holes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: holing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: holed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: holed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
pos: noun
examples: I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg.  I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.
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.
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.
gloss: An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
pos: noun
examples: There’s a hole in my shoe.  Her stocking has a hole in it.
The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.
[…]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:[…]
gloss: In games.
pos: noun
gloss: In games.
pos: noun
examples: I played 18 holes yesterday.  The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.
gloss: In games.
pos: noun
examples: The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.
gloss: In games.
pos: noun
gloss: In games.
pos: noun
gloss: In games.
pos: noun
gloss: An excavation pit or trench.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: I have found a hole in your argument.
But between the drinks and subtle things / The holes in my apologies, you know / I’m trying hard to take it back
gloss: In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
pos: noun
gloss: A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
pos: noun
gloss: Any bodily orifice.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
vulgar
examples: Just shut your hole!
gloss: Any bodily orifice.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
gloss: Any bodily orifice.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
gloss: Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
pos: noun
tags: informal
with-definite-article
examples: In late December a Washington State prisoner was involved in a scuffle with a guard who was trying to take him into the hole.
Disciplinary actions can range from a mere write up to serious time in the hole.
gloss: An undesirable place to live or visit.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: His apartment is a hole!
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.
gloss: Difficulty, in particular, debt.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
"Don't you see the hole it has put me into? […] Of course it was too late to have any alteration printed on the first night and now Miss Roscastle is the draw of the piece.
gloss: A chordless cycle in a graph.
pos: noun
gloss: A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: We’re supposed to take the hole at Cronk and wait for the Limited to pass.
gloss: A mountain valley.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
historical
examples: Jackson Hole
gloss: To make holes in (an object or surface).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
gloss: To destroy.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
examples: She completely holed the argument.
gloss: To go into a hole.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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!
gloss: To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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
gloss: To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars
Synonyms: hole
Derived words: ace in the hole
a-hole
airhole
air hole
analog hole
analogue hole
antihole
armhole
arm hole
arrow-hole
arsehole
ash-hole
asshole
ass hole
Aubrey hole
back hole
batty hole
beam hole
beanhole
bean hole
Beck Hole
bench-hole
blackhole
black-hole
black hole
blasthole
bleed hole
blind hole
block 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
button-hole
button hole
buttonhole
cakehole
c-hole
chuckhole
clearance hole
cloud hole
coal hole
cockhole
cookie hole
core hole
corehole
cornhole
coronal hole
couldn't piss a hole in the snow
countersunk hole
cradle hole
craphole
crawl into a hole
creephole
cryoconite hole
cubbyhole
cubby hole
cuddy-hole
cumhole
cum hole
cum-hole
cyberhole
Dane-hole
denehole
Devils Hole
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
donut hole
doo-doo hole
dookie hole
doughnut hole
Dove Holes
downhole
down-hole
dreamhole
drinking hole
driphole
drophole
dry hole
dumb hole
dunghole
dust hole
dusthole
Dust-Hole
earhole
earthhole
egg-in-a-hole
egg in a hole
electron hole
exit hole
eyehole
facehole
fallstreak hole
farthole
feedhole
ff-hole
f-hole
fighting hole
fingerhole
finger hole
firehole
fire in the hole
five-hole
floss hole
foothole
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
handhole
hand-hole
hardie hole
hardy hole
hawsehole
hellhole
Hell hole
hell hole
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
Holes Bay
holeshot
hole state
holey
holk
holyhedron
honey hole
hulk
Hutton-le-Hole
ice hole
in the hole
jackhole
Jackson Hole
jaw-hole
jawhole
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
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
loop hole
loophole
love hole
lubber's hole
lughole
maintenance hole
make a hole
man hole
manhole
man-hole
mayhole
melon hole
memory hole
memory-hole
microhole
minihole
miracle hole
Mohole
mudhole
multihole
murder hole
murder-hole
nanohole
neckhole
nesthole
news hole
nineteenth hole
nosehole
oarhole
oar-hole
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
pilot-hole
pilot hole
pin-hole
pinhole
pisshole
placket hole
plot hole
plughole
pocket-hole
pocket-hole jig
poke holes in
poophole
pophole
porthole
posthole
pothole
pot-hole
pot hole
potholing
priest hole
priest's hole
primordial black hole
pritchel hole
pseudohole
pukehole
punch hole
punch-hole
pussyhole
pussyo
putlog hole
put the wood in the hole
quasihole
quiggly hole
regular black hole
Reissner-Nordström black hole
ringhole
rock hole
rockhole
roothole
rudderhole
rum hole
Schwarzschild black hole
scumhole
scupper hole
security hole
shake hole
shakehole
s-hole
shothole
sighthole
sinkhole
sink hole
sink-hole
sleazehole
slimehole
sludge hole
slut hole
Smiggin Holes
smokehole
snowhole
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
three-hole punch
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
touchhole
touch-hole
touch hole
traphole
two-hole punch
underhole
uphole
venthole
visual hole
waffle hole
water hole
waterhole
water-hole
watering hole
watering hole attack
weephole
weep hole
wellhole
white hole
winding hole
Wokey Hole
wonky hole
woodhole
Woods Hole
Wookey Hole
wool-hole
word hole
work the hole
yaoi hole
anthole
cathole
cat-hole
cat hole
crabhole
culver-hole
doghole
foxhole
fox-hole
fox hole
gopher-hole
knuckerhole
knucker hole
mole-hole
mousehole
mouse-hole
pigeonhole
pigeon-hole
pigeon hole
pig-hole
rabbithole
rabbit-hole
rabbit hole
rathole
rat hole
seal-hole
snakehole
sparrow-hole
squirrel hole
wormhole
worm-hole
holeable
hole out
holer
hole up
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: kolo
lang: Italian
word: buca
lang: Polish
word: wykop
lang: Bulgarian
word: отво́р
roman: otvór
lang: Danish
word: hul
lang: Dutch
word: lichaamsholte
lang: Finnish
word: reikä
lang: French
word: trou
lang: Galician
word: buraco
lang: Galician
word: burato
lang: German
word: Loch
lang: Greek
word: τρύπα
roman: trýpa
lang: Irish
word: poll
lang: Irish
word: oscailt
lang: Irish
word: cuas
lang: Irish
word: gola
lang: Italian
word: orifizio
lang: Italian
word: pertugio
lang: Italian
word: cavità
lang: Latin
word: forāmen
lang: Latin
word: ōs
lang: Latin
word: hiātus
lang: Malayalam
word: ദ്വാരം
roman: dvāraṁ
lang: Polish
word: otwór
lang: Portuguese
word: buraco
lang: Portuguese
word: orifício
lang: Portuguese
word: forame
lang: Russian
word: отве́рстие
roman: otvérstije
lang: Russian
word: очко́
roman: očkó
lang: Russian
word: лу́нка
roman: lúnka
lang: Slovene
word: luknja
lang: Spanish
word: orificio
lang: Ukrainian
word: ді́́рка
roman: dí́rka
lang: Ukrainian
word: очко́
roman: očkó