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Meaning of hole

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hole

Pronunciation:/həʊl//hoʊl/

noun

Definitions

  1. 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.

    Example: There’s a hole in my shoe.  Her stocking has a hole in it.

  2. (heading) In games.

  3. An excavation pit or trench.

  4. A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.

    Example: I have found a hole in your argument.

verb

Definitions

  1. To make holes in (an object or surface).

    Example: Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.

  2. (by extension) To destroy.

    Example: She completely holed the argument.

  3. To go into a hole.

  4. To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.

    Example: Woods holed a standard three foot putt

hole

Pronunciation:/həʊl//hoʊl/

adjective

Definitions

  1. Entire, undivided.

    Example: I ate a whole fish.

  2. Sound, uninjured, healthy.

    Example: He is of whole mind, but the same cannot be said about his physical state.

  3. (of food) From which none of its constituents has been removed.

    Example: whole wheat; whole milk

  4. As yet unworked.