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The definition of hole
16 Definitions of: hole
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- noun, an area hollowed out in a solid
- noun, an opening made in or through something
- noun, an animal's hiding place or burrow
- noun, an unattractive place, such as a town or a dwelling
- noun, a cell or dungeon
- noun, a small anchorage
- noun, a fault (esp in the phrase pick holes in)
- noun, slang a difficult and embarrassing situation
- noun, the cavity in various games into which the ball must be thrust
- noun, a) the cup on each of the greens b) each of the divisions of a course (usually 18) represented by the distance between the tee and a green c) the score made in striking the ball from the tee into the hole
- noun, physics a) a vacancy in a nearly full band of quantum states of electrons in a semiconductor or an insulator. Under the action of an electric field holes behave as carriers of positive charge b) (as modifier) c) a vacancy in the nearly full continuum of quantum states of negative energy of fermions. A hole appears as the antiparticle of the fermion
- noun, in holes so worn as to be full of holes
- noun, in the hole a) in debt b) (of a card, the hole card, in stud poker) dealt face down in the first round
- noun, make a hole in to consume or use a great amount of (food, drink, money, etc)
- verb, to make a hole or holes in (something)
- verb, golf to hit (the ball) into the hole
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©HarperCollins 2008. Collins English Dictionary definition of hole