hole

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /həʊl/, [hɔʊɫ] (doll–dole merger) IPA(key): /hɒl/ (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /hɐʉl/, [hɔʊɫ] (General American) IPA(key): /hoʊl/, [hoɫ] (Canada) IPA(key): [hoːɫ] (Scotland) IPA(key): /hol/, [hoɫ] Rhymes: -əʊl Homophone: whole === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol, from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to hollow. ==== Noun ==== hole (plural holes) 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. (heading) In games. (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. (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes. (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman. (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn. (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. In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox. (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench. (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity. (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle. (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit. (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth. (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus. (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) A vagina. (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment. Synonym: box (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit. (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt. (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph. (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other. (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley. ===== Synonyms ===== See also Thesaurus:hole (solitary confinement): administrative segregation, ad-seg, block (UK), box, cooler (UK), hotbox, lockdown, pound, SCU, security housing unit, SHU, special handling unit ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Japanese: ホール (hōru) → Korean: 홀 (hol) Sranan Tongo: olo ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== hole (third-person singular simple present holes, present participle holing, simple past and past participle holed) (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface). (transitive, by extension) To destroy. (intransitive) To go into a hole. (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball. (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in. to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Adjective ==== hole (comparative holer or more hole, superlative holest or most hole) Obsolete spelling of whole. 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 the hole North. Misspelling of whole. === Anagrams === Hoel, OHLE, helo, ohel, oleh == Czech == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈɦolɛ] === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== hole inflection of hůl: genitive singular nominative/accusative/vocative plural === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== hole masculine singular present transgressive of holit == German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhoːlə/ Rhymes: -oːlə === Verb === hole inflection of holen: first-person singular present first/third-person singular subjunctive I singular imperative == Hausa == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /hóː.lèː/ (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [hóː.lèː] === Verb === hōlḕ (grade 4) to relax, to enjoy oneself == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Old English hol. ==== Alternative forms ==== hoil, hol, holle, houl, hul, ol, ole ==== Noun ==== hole (plural holes or holen) hole ===== Descendants ===== English: hole (see there for further descendants) Scots: hole Yola: hullès (plural) ==== References ==== “hō̆l(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. === Etymology 2 === Inherited from Old English hulu; see hull for more. ==== Alternative forms ==== hoile, hol, holle, hul, hule, hulle, huole, ule, ulle ==== Noun ==== hole (plural holes) hull (the outer covering of a fruit or seed) hut, shelter hull (of a ship) ===== Descendants ===== English: hull Scots: huil ==== References ==== “hol(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. === Etymology 3 === ==== Adjective ==== hole alternative form of hol (“whole”) ==== Noun ==== hole alternative form of hole (“whole”) ==== Adverb ==== hole alternative form of hole (“wholly”) === Etymology 4 === ==== Adjective ==== hole alternative form of hol (“hollow”) === Etymology 5 === ==== Adjective ==== hole alternative form of holy (“holy”) === Etymology 6 === ==== Noun ==== hole alternative form of oile (“oil”) === Etymology 7 === ==== Noun ==== hole (holen) alternative form of oule (“owl”) === Etymology 8 === ==== Alternative forms ==== holn ==== Verb ==== hole past participle of helen (“to cover”) Synonym: heled == Norwegian Bokmål == === Etymology === Derived from Old Norse hola. === Noun === hole f or m (definite singular hola or holen, indefinite plural holer, definite plural holene) alternative form of hule === References === “hole” in The Bokmål Dictionary. == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Alternative forms === hòle === Etymology === Derived from Old Norse hola. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /²hoːlə/ === Noun === hole f (definite singular hola, indefinite plural holer, definite plural holene) cave (anatomy) cavity den ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “hole” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. == Old English == === Noun === hole dative singular of hol == Pennsylvania German == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle High German holen, from Old High German holon, from Proto-West Germanic *holōn (“to fetch”). Compare German holen, Dutch halen. Related to English haul. === Verb === hole to fetch == Slovak == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈɦɔʎe] === Noun === hole f inflection of hoľa: genitive singular nominative/accusative plural == Sotho == === Noun === hole class 17 (uncountable) far away == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English hōle. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /hɔːl/ === Verb === hole past participle of helt === References === 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, published 1867, page 47