Meaning

22 senses
  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.

    Loch, Grube, Grübchen

    впа́динаvpádina, я́маjáma

    ді́ркаdírka

  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.

    Loch, Öffnung, Riss

    отве́рстиеotvérstije, ды́ркаdýrka, дыра́dyrá

    an opening into or through something

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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

  7. 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.

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

  9. (slang)An excavation pit or trench.

  10. (figuratively)A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.

    I have found a hole in your argument.

    сла́бое ме́стоsláboje mésto, дыра́dyrá, слабина́slabiná

    слабина́slabyná

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

    Mangelelektron

    ды́ркаdýrka

    ді́ркаdírka

  12. A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.

    лазе́йкаlazéjka, дыра́dyrá

    ді́ркаdírka

Examples

743 sentences
  1. The hole is about five feet across.

    Дірка близько 5 футів у діаметрі. — uaspeaker

    ruДырка около 5 футов в диаметре. — timsa

    deDas Loch hat einen Durchmesser von circa anderthalb Metern. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. I can't find any holes in his theory.

    Я не можу знайти дірок в його теорії. — aandrusiak

  3. The hole is big enough.

    Дірка достатньо велика. — deniko

    ruОтверстие достаточно большое. — odexed

    deDas Loch ist groß genug. — Esperantostern

  4. The dog was digging a hole.

    Собака рив яму. — deniko

    ruСобака рыла ямку. — paul_lingvo

    deDer Hund grub ein Loch. — samueldora

  5. There's a hole in this sock.

    У цій шкарпетці дірка. — deniko

    ruВ этом носке дыра. — Hellerick

    deDiese Socke hat ein Loch. — MUIRIEL

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 5
orifice (see anus etc. for specific body cavities):
hollow in some surface:
weakness, flaw:
undesirable place:
place where a prisoner is kept:
Русский
By meaning 7
orifice (see anus etc. for specific body cavities):
hollow in some surface:
a through opening:
weakness, flaw:
security vulnerability:
undesirable place:
place where a prisoner is kept:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
orifice (see anus etc. for specific body cavities):
hollow in some surface:
a through opening:
lack of an electron:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cav

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.

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Forms

plural: holes
Singularhole
Pluralholes

regular

Synonyms

26 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

260 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • dug a hole
  • a hole in
  • hole in the
  • hole in his
  • bullet holes
  • dug this hole
  • bullet hole in
  • through the hole
  • hole in my
  • there's a hole
  • hole in your
  • the hole in

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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