holes
/həʊlz/ · 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.
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