hole

noun · verb · adjectiveA1

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noun

Plural noun:

holes

1.
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg. I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.
2.
An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
There’s a hole in my shoe. Her stocking has a hole in it.
3.
(heading) In games.
4.
(slang)(archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
5.
(figuratively)A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
I have found a hole in your argument.
6.
(physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
7.
(computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
8.
(slang, vulgar) Any bodily orifice.
9.
(informal, with definite article)(informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
Đồng nghĩa: box
10.
(slang)An undesirable place to live or visit.
His apartment is a hole!
11.
(figuratively)(figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
12.
(graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

holes

V_ing/Gerund

holing

V_ed/pp

holed

1.
(transitive)To make holes in (an object or surface).
Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
2.
(broadly, transitive)(transitive, by extension) To destroy.
She completely holed the argument.
3.
(intransitive)To go into a hole.
4.
(transitive)To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
Woods holed a standard three foot putt
5.
(transitive)To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

holermore hole

Superlative

holestmost hole

1.
(alt of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of whole.
Such was the arrangement of the alphabet over the hole North.
2.
(alt of, misspelling)Misspelling of whole.

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Đồng nghĩa

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Trái nghĩa

ground

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (orifice, hollow place, cavity), from *hol (hole), from Proto-Germanic *hulą (hollow space, cavity), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz (hollow), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to hollow.