English Dictionary

hole

/həʊl/

noun

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.

I fell into a deep hole while hiking.

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.

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(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.

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(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.

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(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.

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

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(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.

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

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(archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.

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(figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.

I have found a hole in your argument.

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(informal) A container or receptacle.

car hole; brain hole

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

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

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

Just shut your hole!

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

Are you going out to get your hole tonight?

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(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.

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(slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.

His apartment is a hole!

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(figuratively) Difficulty, in particular, debt.

If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

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(graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.

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(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.