Word Finder - hole

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A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.

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There’s a hole in my shoe.  Her stocking has a hole in it.

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(heading) In games.

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An excavation pit or trench.

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A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.

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I have found a hole in your argument.

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A container or receptacle.

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car hole;  brain hole

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

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

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

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Just shut your hole!

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

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Are you going out to get your hole tonight?

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

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• box

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An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.

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His apartment is a hole!

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Difficulty, in particular, debt.

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If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

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A chordless cycle in a graph.

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To make holes in (an object or surface).

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Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.

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(by extension) To destroy.

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She completely holed the argument.

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To go into a hole.

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To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.

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Woods holed a standard three foot putt

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To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

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to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars

He comes in through a hole in the floor.

The opening to the cave was only a narrow hole between two rocks.

This is the last water hole for a long time.

He motioned toward a hole in the wall, and he and Jade and Ileana trailed her out of the destroyed building.

One step in a hole and she could lie out here mortally wounded with no one to know.

I poured cement in the hole he dug under the hen house.

There is a similar hole in the Preanger.

The image was viewed through a large hole in the side.

There is even a tiny hole for the Reset button.

Lana stared at the hole, surprised, and dropped even lower.

The remainder surrendered after a feeble resistance, and were thrown as prisoners into the " black hole " or military jail of Fort William, a room 18 ft.

The sap is collected in spring, just before the foliage develops, and is procured by making a notch or boring a hole in the stem of the tree about 3 ft.

N, Hole for filling, with screw plug.

Why don't I pick you up tomorrow after work and take you to the bluff hole?

What happened soon became apparent; there was a neat hole in the top story of the building where Xander's condo used to be.

The tunica, a loose sack-like tunic with a hole for the head, was the innermost garment worn by all classes of Roman citizens under the republic and empire.

It lives in a burrow, generally excavated by itself; but when pursued, seeks safety in flight, rather than by a retreat to its hole.

In the best-known form a plumbago crucible was used with a hole cut in the bottom to receive a carbon rod, which was ground in so as to make a tight joint.

Together they lifted Brutus from the wheelbarrow and placed him in the hole.

The image of the sun thrown upon a screen at a distance exceeding 66 ft., through a hole in.

This cylinder, which is suspended from a stand rigidly attached to the earth, has a vertical hole in its centre extending from its upper surface to its centre of gravity, and to the bottom of this well a light rod is fixed.

The smaller the hole (so far at least as geometrical optics is concerned) the less confused will the picture be.

On the tree being lifted from its hole the roots should be examined, and all which have been severed roughly with the spade should have the ends cut smooth with the knife to facilitate the emission of fibres.

The hole for its reception should be of sufficient depth to allow the base of the ball of earth, or of the roots, to stand so that the point whence the uppermost roots spring from the stem may be 2 or 3 in.

Then the bottom being regulated so as to leave the soil rather highest in the centre, the plant is to be set in the hole in the position desired, and steadied there by hand.

After twenty-four hours the hole may be levelled in, with moderate treading, if the water has soaked well in, the surface being left level and not sloping upwards towards the stem of the tree.

The plant must be lifted with as little injury to its rootlets as possible, and carefully set into the hole, the soil being filled in round it, and carefully pressed close by the hand.

The ground being prepared and, if necessary, enriched, and the surface made fine and smooth, a hole is made with the dibble deep enough and large enough to receive the roots of the seedling plants without doubling them up, and the hole is filled in by working the soil close to the plant with the point of the dibble.

Garden pots are made with a comparatively large hole in the bottom, and those of the largest size have also holes at the side near the bottom; these openings are to prevent the soil becoming saturated or soured with superabundant water.

To prepare the pot for the plant, a broadish piece of potsherd, called a " crock," is placed over the large hole, and if there be side holes they also are covered.

When repotting is adopted as a temporary expedient, as in the case of bedding-out plants which it is required to push forward as much as possible, it will suffice if provision is made to prevent the drainage hole from getting blocked, and a rich light compost is provided for the encouragement of the roots.

Shallow planting, whether of wall trees or standards, is generally to be preferred, a covering of a few inches of soil being sufficient for the roots, but a surface of at least equal size to, the surface of the hole should be covered with dung or litter so as to restrain evaporation and preserve moisture.

T, Part of resonating pipe, the upper end with cap and vent hole being shown separately at the side.

Marshall Ward showed that the hyphae of Botrytis pierce the cell-walls of a lily by secreting a cytase and dissolving a hole through the membrane.

To prevent this he might make a second or suction hole, and thus he would have a veritable engine, perhaps one of the very earliest of all.

As the iron melts it runs out through a tap hole and spout at the bottom of the furnace, to be poured into the moulds by means of clay-lined ladles.

A recent application of the diamond is for wire drawing; a hole tapering towards the centre is drilled through a diamond, and the metal is drawn through this.

The surface of the central hole was heated by steam under pressure, and the total flow of FIG.

The outward gradient is dO/dr, and is negative if the central hole is heated.

He bored a hole in his shutters that he might see Godiva pass, and is said to have been struck blind.

It generally makes its nest in a hollow branch, plastering up the opening with clay, leaving only a circular hole just large enough to afford entrance and exit; and the interior contains a bed of dry leaves or the filmy flakes of the inner bark of a fir or cedar, on which the eggs are laid.

A trap for animals legs, formed by splints of palm stick radiating round a central hole, is figured in S.D.

The strong claws make a hole in the side of the ant-hill, and the insects are collected on the extensile tongue.

The nest of one species, as observed by Robert Owen, is at the end of a hole bored in the bank of a watercourse, and the eggs are pure white and glossy (Ibis, 1861, p. 65).

He then filled up the hole, thinking his secret safe; but the reeds which grew up over the spot proclaimed it to all the world.

After slowly cooling, the outer mould was broken away from outside the statue and the inner core as much as possible broken up and raked out through a hole in the foot or some other part of the statue.

Ali Vardi Khan died in 1756, and was succeeded by his grandson, Suraj-ud-Dowlah, a youth of only nineteen years, whose ungovernable temper led to a rupture Black Hole of Calcutta.

Sulphur and salt springs occur on the slopes of Cherimai, and near Palimanan there is a cavernous hole called Guwagalang (or Payagalang), which exhales carbonic acid gas, and is considered holy by the natives and guarded by priests.

Suppose, next, that the body which casts the shadow is a large one, such as a wall, with a hole in it.

If we were to plug the hole, the whole screen would be in geometrical shadow.