hole

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• 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.
• A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
• An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
• Sex, or a sex partner.
• Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
• An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
• Difficulty, in particular, debt.
• A chordless cycle in a graph.
• A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.

Verb

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

Related

Similar words

• administrative segregation, ad-seg, block , box, cooler , hotbox, lockdown, pound, SCU, security housing unit, SHU, special handling unit

Origin

• From Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol ("orifice, hollow place, cavity"), from Proto-West Germanic *hol, from Proto-Germanic *hulą ("hollow space, cavity"), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz ("hollow"). Related to hollow.