Meaning of hole | Babel Free

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1. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
2. A surname.
3. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure
4. An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
5. To make a hole in something.
6. An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent
7. To hit a golf ball into the hole.
8. In games.
9. 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.
10. In games. 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. The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes
11. To make a hole or other opening in:breach, break (through), gap, perforate, pierce, puncture.
12. The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
13. 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
14. Informal. To shut oneself up in secrecy:hide out.
15. The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
16. The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes
17. to hit a golfball into a hole. inspeel, input يَضرِب الكُرَة في حُفْرَة الغولف вкарвам в дупка meter no buraco zahrát míček do jamky einlochen få i hul; slå i hul βάζω σε τρύπα (στο γκολφ) meter en el hoyo puttama گوي در سوراخ راندن lyödä reikään envoyer la balle dans le trou לִקלוֹע לַגוָּמה गोल्फ में बाल पर चोट कर होल तक पहुंचाने की कोशिश करना ubaciti u rupu lyukba üt memasukkan ke lubang slá golfkúlu í holu mettere in buca 穴に打ち込む 공을 쳐서 홀에 넣다 įmušti kamuoliuką į duobutę iedzīt bedrītē (golf...
18. A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
19. hueco, agujero.
20. 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.
21. A hollowed place in something solid; a cavity or pit: dug a hole in the ground with a shovel.
22. In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
23. An opening or perforation: a hole in the clouds; had a hole in the elbow of my sweater.
24. An excavation pit or trench.
    slang
25. A deep place in a body of water.
26. A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
    figuratively
27. An animal's hollowed-out habitation, such as a burrow.
28. In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
29. A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
30. A person's mouth.
    derogatory, slang
31. Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
    slang
32. A vagina.
    Ireland, Scotland, vulgar
33. Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
    informal, with-definite-article
34. An undesirable place to live or visit.
    slang
35. Difficulty, in particular, debt.
    figuratively
36. A chordless cycle in a graph.
37. A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
    slang
38. A mountain valley.
    Canada, US, historical

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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.”

“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:[…]”

“I played 18 holes yesterday.  The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.”

“The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.”

“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”

“Just shut your hole!”

“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.”

“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.”

“If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”

“We’re supposed to take the hole at Cronk and wait for the Limited to pass.”

“Jackson Hole”

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