hole meaning
EN
[həʊl] [həʊɫ] [hɒʊl] [hɒʊɫ] [-əʊl] [hoʊl] [hoʊɫ] [-oʊl] 
US WHole
- A hole is an opening.
- Hole or holes may also refer to:
- NounPLholesPREhol-SUF-ole
- 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.
- There’s a hole in my shoe. Her stocking has a hole in it.
- There’s a hole in my bucket.
- (heading) In games.
- I played 18 holes yesterday. The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.
- The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figuratively) A weakness, a flaw.
- I have found a hole in your argument.
- (informal) A container or receptacle.
- car hole; brain hole
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- (slang anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus.
- (Ireland, idiomatic) sex, or a sex partner (particularly in the phrase, "get one's hole")).
- Are you going out to get your hole tonight?
- (informal, with “the”) Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
- His apartment is a hole!
- (figuratively) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- 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.
- VerbSGholesPRholingPT, PPholed
- (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
- Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
- (transitive, by extension) To destroy.
- She completely holed the argument.
- To go or get into a hole.
- (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
- to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars
- (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
- Woods holed a standard three foot putt
- simple past tense of hele.
- (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Croft touched down a few minutes later after a gaping hole opened up down Romania's left flank before Ashton completed his hat-trick following a lolloping run from Haskell.
- Under his parents' supervision he drilled the holes in the wood.
- A whirlpool is an instance of a vortex produced by ocean tides, or by a hole underneath where the water would drain out, such as in a bathtub.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Eggcrates are carefully aligned at specific locations by adjusting the location of each radially with corresponding tube holes.
- The Blues, without new big-money signings Fernando Torres and David Luiz, relied on their old guard to dig them out of an early hole.
- The rescue team managed to suppress the flow of oil by blasting the drilling hole.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of hole in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
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- Verb simple past forms
- Verb simple past forms
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- Nouns
- en holes
- en holey
- en hole-in-the-wall
- en holen
- en holed
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "hole" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form and a transitive verb.