hole

/həʊl/ · noun

Meaning

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.
(heading) In games.
An excavation pit or trench.
A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
A container or receptacle.
In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
To make holes in (an object or surface).
(by extension) To destroy.
To go into a hole.
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
Entire, undivided.
Sound, uninjured, healthy.
(of food) From which none of its constituents has been removed.
As yet unworked.

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