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See also:Hole,holé,andhòle

English

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Etymology 1

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Inherited fromMiddle Englishhole,hol, fromOld Englishhol(“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), fromProto-West Germanic*hol, fromProto-Germanic*hulą(“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative ofProto-Germanic*hulaz(“hollow”), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related tohollow.

Noun

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hole (pluralholes)

  1. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
    I made a blindhole in the wall for a peg. I dug ahole and planted a tree in it.
    • c.1606–1607 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene vii]:
      To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in't, are theholes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks.
    • 1879,R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, inThe 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 thehole 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.
  2. An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
    There’s ahole in my shoe. Her stocking has ahole in it.
  3. (heading)In games.
    1. (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also calledcup, 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 thegreen, of a particular type grass.
    2. (golf) The part of a game in which aplayer attempts to hit theball into one of the holes.
      I played 18holes yesterday. The secondhole today cost me three strokes over par.
    3. (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between theshortstop and the third baseman.
      The shortstop ranged deep into thehole to make the stop.
    4. (chess) Asquare on theboard, with somepositionalsignificance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future,control with afriendlypawn.
    5. (stud poker) A card (also called ahole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
    6. In the game offives, part of the floor of thecourt between thestep and thepepperbox.
  4. (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
  5. (figuratively) Aweakness; aflaw orambiguity.
    I have found ahole in your argument.
    • 2011,Fun, “We Are Young”:
      But between the drinks and subtle things / Theholes in my apologies, you know /I’m trying hard to take it back
  6. (physics) Insemiconductors, a lack of anelectron in an occupied band behaving like a positively chargedparticle.
  7. (computing) Asecurityvulnerability insoftware which can be taken advantage of by anexploit.
  8. (slang, derogatory) A person'smouth.
    Just shut yourhole!
  9. (slang) Anybodilyorifice, in particular theanus.
  10. (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) Avagina.
  12. (informal, with "the")Solitary confinement, a high-securityprison cell often used as punishment.
    Synonym:box
    • 1988 April 2, Ed Mead, “AIDS hysteria sweeps prison guards' union”, inGay 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 thehole.
    • 2011, Ahmariah Jackson, IAtomic Seven,Locked Up but Not Locked Down:
      Disciplinary actions can range from a mere write up to serious time in thehole.
  13. (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
    His apartment is ahole!
    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly,Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page109:
      I have often heard people say, "One can't live upon a view," and I have heard some of the most beautiful places called "awfulholes," simply because of the monotonous lives led in them.
  14. (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
    If you find yourself in ahole, stop digging.
  15. (graph theory) Achordlesscycle in agraph.
  16. (slang, rail transport) Apassing loop; asiding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
    We’re supposed to take thehole at Cronk and wait for the Limited to pass.
  17. (Canada,US, historical) Amountainvalley.
    JacksonHole
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Translations
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hollow in some surface
a through opening
weakness, flaw
container
lack of an electron
security vulnerability
orifice (see anus etc. for specific body cavities)
place where a prisoner is kept
undesirable place
portion of a game of golf
pit—seepit
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passing loop—seesiding

Verb

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hole (third-person singular simple presentholes,present participleholing,simple past and past participleholed)

  1. (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
    Shrapnelholed the ship's hull.
  2. (transitive, by extension) Todestroy.
    She completelyholed the argument.
  3. (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 youhole with very shortly!
      A fine round head, when those two lugs are off,
      To trundle through a pillory!
  4. (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
    • 1799,Sporting Magazine, volume13, page49:
      If the playerholes the red ball, he scores three, and uponholing his adversary's ball, he gains two; and thus it frequently happens, that seven are got upon a single stroke, by caramboling andholing both balls.
    Woodsholed a standard three foot putt
  5. (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
    tohole a post for the insertion of rails or bars
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Translations
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make holes
destroy—seedestroy
go into a hole
drive into a hole
cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes

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Adjective

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hole (comparativeholerormorehole,superlativeholestormosthole)

  1. Obsolete spelling ofwhole.
    • 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 thehole North.
  2. Misspelling ofwhole.

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Czech

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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hole

  1. inflection ofhůl:
    1. genitivesingular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocativeplural

Etymology 2

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Verb

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hole

  1. masculinesingularpresenttransgressive ofholit

German

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hole

  1. inflection ofholen:
    1. first-personsingularpresent
    2. first/third-personsingularsubjunctive I
    3. singularimperative

Hausa

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /hóː.lèː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa)IPA(key): [hóː.lèː]

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hōlḕ (grade 4)

  1. torelax, to enjoy oneself

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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    Inherited fromOld Englishhol.

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    Noun

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    hole (pluralholesorholen)

    1. hole
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    • English:hole (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots:hole
    • Yola:hullès(plural)

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    Etymology 2

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      Inherited fromOld Englishhulu; seehull for more.

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      hole (pluralholes)

      1. hull(the outercovering of a fruit or seed)
      2. hut,shelter
      3. hull(of a ship)
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      Etymology 3

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      Adjective

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      hole

      1. alternative form ofhol(“whole”)

      Noun

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      hole

      1. alternative form ofhole(“whole”)

      Adverb

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      hole

      1. alternative form ofhole(“wholly”)

      Etymology 4

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      Adjective

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      hole

      1. alternative form ofhol(“hollow”)

      Etymology 5

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      Adjective

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      hole

      1. alternative form ofholy(“holy”)

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      Noun

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      hole

      1. alternative form ofoile(“oil”)

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      Noun

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      hole (holen)

      1. alternative form ofoule(“owl”)

      Etymology 8

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      Alternative forms

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      hole

      1. pastparticiple ofhelen(“to cover”)
        Synonym:heled

      Norwegian Bokmål

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      Etymology

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      Derived fromOld Norsehola.

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      hole f orm (definite singularholaorholen,indefinite pluralholer,definite pluralholene)

      1. alternative form ofhule

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      Norwegian Nynorsk

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      Alternative forms

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      • hòle

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      Derived fromOld Norsehola.

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      hole f (definite singularhola,indefinite pluralholer,definite pluralholene)

      1. cave
      2. (anatomy)cavity
      3. den

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      Old English

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      Noun

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      hole

      1. dativesingular ofhol

      Pennsylvania German

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      Etymology

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      Inherited fromMiddle High Germanholen, fromOld High Germanholon, fromProto-West Germanic*holōn(“to fetch”). CompareGermanholen,Dutchhalen. Related to Englishhaul.

      Verb

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      hole

      1. tofetch

      Slovak

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      hole f

      1. inflection ofhoľa:
        1. genitivesingular
        2. nominative/accusativeplural

      Sotho

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      Noun

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      hole class17 (uncountable)

      1. far away

      Yola

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      Etymology

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      FromMiddle Englishhōle.

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      hole

      1. pastparticiple ofhelt
        • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, inSONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page84:
          Yith Muzleare had bahole, t'was mee Tommeen,
          If Good-for-little had beenburied, it had been my Tommy,

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      • 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, published1867,page47
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