A hole isn't just a hollow space dug out of the ground or punched out of something. When you're talking casually with friends, you can also call a place that's small or dumpy a hole, like a rundown town or a really tiny apartment.
Whole.
Noun
an opening deliberately made in or through something
Noun
one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course; "he played 18 holes"
Noun
informal terms for the mouth
Noun
an opening into or through something
Noun
a depression hollowed out of solid matter
Noun
an unoccupied space
Noun
informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
Noun
a fault; "he shot holes in my argument"
Verb
make holes in
Verb
hit the ball into the hole
a.
Whole.
n.
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.
n.
An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or
a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark
lodging or place; a mean habitation.
n.
To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post
for the insertion of rails or bars.
n.
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.
v. i.
To go or get into a hole.
Hole
Hole
The holes where eyes should be.
The blind walls Were full of chinks and holes.
The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.2.
The foxes have holes, . . . but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Hole
Hole
Whole.
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.
To go or get into a hole.
Usage Examples
I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
I'm a big fan of Courtney Love. I love Hole and I love her acting and I love her attitude. I just hope I never meet her in a dark alley.
My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.
I have this desire to just while away weeks, months and years. It took me two years to make this record but that was with me trying to condense my process and not disappear down the rabbit hole with all the cool things I've collected. I could take 10 years and not explore everything I want to with these instruments.
I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.
Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!
I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
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Other Usage ExamplesI've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
Love is a hole in the heart.
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.
A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
Politics is like football if you see daylight, go through the hole.
The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.
Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.
I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100% we've always found a hole.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, 'This is not a criminal act,' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.
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