English Dictionary

hole

IPA（発音記号）

/həʊl/

名詞

俗語 比喩的用法 くだけた表現 アイルランド英語 スコットランド英語 定冠詞付き

A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure. / An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.

日本語の意味

穴：空洞や凹みがある部分。 / くぼみ：表面にあるへこみや窪み。 / 掘られた部分：土や素材が取り除かれてできた空間。 / 貫通孔：物体を完全に通り抜ける開口部。

She dropped her ring into a hole in the garden and spent hours trying to find it.

彼女は庭の穴に指輪を落としてしまい、見つけるのに何時間もかかった。

意味（1）

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.

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

(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.

意味（4）

(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.

意味（5）

(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.

意味（6）

(chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.

意味（7）

(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.

意味（8）

In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.

意味（9）

(archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.

意味（10）

(figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.

I have found a hole in your argument.

意味（11）

(informal) A container or receptacle.

car hole; brain hole

意味（12）

(physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.

意味（13）

(computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.

意味（14）

(slang, anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.

Just shut your hole!

意味（15）

(Ireland, Scotland, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.

Are you going out to get your hole tonight?

意味（16）

(informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.

Disciplinary actions can range from a mere write up to serious time in the hole.

意味（17）

(slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.

His apartment is a hole!

意味（18）

(figuratively) Difficulty, in particular, debt.

If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

意味（19）

(graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.

意味（20）

(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.

holes （ plural ）