hole
A hollow place or cavityA hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
» The hole is about five feet across.
Das Loch hat einen Durchmesser von circa anderthalb Metern.
Дырка около 5 футов в диаметре.
Дірка близько 5 футів у діаметрі.
Meaning
22 sensesA 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
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
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.
I played 18 holes yesterday. The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.
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.
A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
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.
In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
(slang)An excavation pit or trench.
(figuratively)A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
I have found a hole in your argument.
сла́бое ме́стоsláboje mésto, дыра́dyrá, слабина́slabiná
слабина́slabyná
In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
Mangelelektron
ды́ркаdýrka
ді́ркаdírka
A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
лазе́йкаlazéjka, дыра́dyrá
ді́ркаdírka
Examples
743 sentencesThe 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
I can't find any holes in his theory.
Я не можу знайти дірок в його теорії. — aandrusiak
The hole is big enough.
Дірка достатньо велика. — deniko
ruОтверстие достаточно большое. — odexed
deDas Loch ist groß genug. — Esperantostern
The dog was digging a hole.
Собака рив яму. — deniko
ruСобака рыла ямку. — paul_lingvo
deDer Hund grub ein Loch. — samueldora
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 languagesBy meaning 5
By meaning 7
By meaning 4
Origin
Inherited from Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavInherited 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: holesSynonyms
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