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- Dictionaryhole/həʊl/
noun
- 1. a hollow place in a solid body or surface: "the dog had dug a hole in the ground" Similar
- 2. a place or position that needs to be filled because someone or something is no longer there: "she is missed terribly and her death has left a hole in all our lives"
verb
- 1. make a hole or holes in: "a fuel tank was holed by the attack and a fire started"
- 2. hit (the ball) into a hole: "George holed a six-iron shot from the fairway"
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an empty space in an object, usually with an opening to the object's surface, or an opening that goes completely through an object: dig a hole We dug a hole and planted the tree. hole in My jumper's got a hole in it. Drill a hole through the back of the cupboard and pass the wires through. Synonyms. cavity. chamber (SPACE) specialized. gap (SPACE)
The meaning of HOLE is an opening through something : perforation. How to use hole in a sentence.
Hole definition: an opening through something; gap; aperture. See examples of HOLE used in a sentence.
n. 1. A hollowed place in something solid; a cavity or pit: dug a hole in the ground with a shovel. 2. a. An opening or perforation: a hole in the clouds; had a hole in the elbow of my sweater. b. Sports An opening in a defensive formation, such as the area of a baseball infield between two adjacent fielders. c.
hole, cavity, excavation refer to a hollow place in anything. hole is the common word for this idea: a hole in turf. cavity is a more formal or scientific term for a hollow within the body or in a substance, whether with or without a passage outward: a cavity in a tooth; the cranial cavity.
[countable] a hollow space in something solid or in the surface of something. He dug a deep hole in the garden. hole in something The bomb blew a huge hole in the ground. Water had collected in the holes in the road. She drilled a small hole in the wall. see also f-hole, sinkhole, swallow hole. Extra Examples. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
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.
