Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word HOLE

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Definitions of HOLE

1. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
2. An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
3. (heading) In games.
4. (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
5. (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
6. (informal) A container or receptacle.
7. (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
8. (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
9. (slang, anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
10. (Ireland, Scotland, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
11. (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
12. (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
13. (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
14. (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
15. (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
16. (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
17. (transitive, by extension) To destroy.
18. (intransitive) To go into a hole.
19. (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
20. (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
21. A surname.
22. Obsolete spelling of whole..
23. Misspelling of whole.

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Examples of Using HOLE in a Sentence

• A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood, or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing.
• Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform spacetime to form a black hole.
• He retired from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2021 and is now a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
• Players take turns shooting discs across the circular playing surface, trying to land their discs in the higher-scoring regions of the board, particularly the recessed centre hole of 20 points, while also attempting to knock opposing discs off the board, and into the 'ditch'.
• She rose to prominence as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989.
• Players complete a hole by throwing a disc from a tee pad or tee area toward a basket, throwing again from where the previous throw came to rest, until the basket is reached.
• The concept originally referred to the gap or hole in the wall or fence, rather than a barrier which closed it.
• The cutting action of the gimlet is slightly different from an auger and the initial hole it makes is smaller; the cutting edges pare away the wood, which is moved out by the spiral sides, falling out through the entry hole.
• Hole (topology) - in a topological space, a hole is a sphere that cannot be continuously extended to a ball.
• The holographic principle was inspired by the Bekenstein bound of black hole thermodynamics, which conjectures that the maximum entropy in any region scales with the radius , rather than cubed as might be expected.
• This is opposed to draw games, where each player's hand is composed only of concealed cards, and stud games, where each player's unique hand contains a mix of cards visible to the other players and concealed hole cards.
• The emission from an AGN is powered by a supermassive black hole with a mass ranging from millions to tens of billions of solar masses, surrounded by a gaseous accretion disc.
• The original object, called the progenitor, either collapses to a neutron star or black hole, or is completely destroyed to form a diffuse nebula.
• After attracting Virgin Records, the duo achieved further success with their second album Dig Your Own Hole (1997), which topped the UK chart.
• Wookey Hole cave is a "solutional cave", one that is formed by a process of weathering in which the natural acid in groundwater dissolves the rocks.
• There are two common routes to a supernova: either a massive star may run out of fuel, ceasing to generate fusion energy in its core, and collapsing inward under the force of its own gravity to form a neutron star or a black hole; or a white dwarf star may accrete material from a companion star until it reaches a critical mass and undergoes a thermonuclear explosion.
• Timing electronics or software would use the faster timing of the index hole between sector holes, to generate an index signal.
• Carroll, who specializes in theoretical cosmology and field theory, explains two competing explanations for the origins of the singularity, which is the center of a space in which a characteristic is limitless (one example is the singularity of a black hole, where gravity is the characteristic that becomes infinite).
• An electron and an electron hole that are attracted to each other by the Coulomb force can form a bound state called an exciton.
• The main causes of ozone depletion and the ozone hole are manufactured chemicals, especially manufactured halocarbon refrigerants, solvents, propellants, and foam-blowing agents (chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), HCFCs, halons), referred to as ozone-depleting substances (ODS).
• When the first pass is complete, the operator opens the camera and flips and swaps the spools (the design of the spool hole ensures that the operator does this properly) and the same film is subsequently exposed along its other edge, the edge left unexposed on the first pass.
• Central massive object at the center of a galaxy, either a supermassive black hole, or a nuclear star cluster.
• In optics, the aperture of an optical system (including a system consisted of a single lens) is a hole or an opening that primarily limits light propagated through the system.
• House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump due to the Trump-Ukraine scandal and other controversies; CRISPR gene editing first used to experimentally treat a patient with a genetic disorder; a fire destroys the spire and roof of Notre-Dame de Paris; the Venezuelan presidential crisis divided the nation and the world in support for Nicolás Maduro or Juan Guaidó; protesters in Tahrir Square, Baghdad during the Iraqi protests, caused by strong Iraqi nationalism; Chileans protest after the increase in the rates of the public transport system of Santiago; the Event Horizon Telescope captures the first image of a black hole.
• It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures.

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