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Hole Up

Definitions: Hole Up

Hole Up

Verb

1. Remain secluded or in hiding; "He is writing his book and is holing up in his study".

2. Score a hole in one, in golf.

3. Sleep during winter, as of certain animals, such as bears.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Hole Up

Synonym: hibernate (v). (additional references)
Antonym: estivate (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Hole Up

English words defined with "hole up": Hawse blockstud, stud pokerTampingup and down. (references)
Specialty definitions using "hole up": assembler, special machineBARREL ASSEMBLER, bench hand, Birth, BORING-MACHINE OPERATORcable-tool drilling, calyx drill, caving hole, CONTOUR-BAND-SAW OPERATOR, VERTICAL, cooler servicer, CORE LOADER, CORE-DRILL OPERATOR, coyote holeDRILL OPERATOR, AUTOMATIC, driller, multiple spindle, DRILL-PRESS OPERATOR, PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS, DRILL-PRESS SET-UP OPERATOR, MULTIPLE SPINDLE, DRILL-PRESS SET-UP OPERATOR, RADIAL, DRILL-PRESS SET-UP OPERATOR, RADIAL, TOOL, DRILL-PRESS SET-UP OPERATOR, SINGLE SPINDLEFauck's boring method, film inspector, finishing-powder-press operator, free-falling devicegang-drill-press operator, Gimme, glass bender, GLASS-VIAL-BENDING-CONVEYOR FEEDER, Gommesson method, GRAINING-PRESS OPERATOR, GRINDER SET-UP OPERATOR, JIGHORIZONTAL-EARTH-BORING-MACHINE OPERATORINSPECTOR, CIRCUITRY NEGATIVEjig grinder, jig-grinding-machine operatorLOCATION-AND-MEASUREMENT TECHNICIAN, long-hole blastingmacaroni-press operator, MACHINE BUILDER, machinist, bench, mill shoe, multiple-spindle-drilling-machine operatoroverall drilling time, oxygen lancePALLET ASSEMBLER, plug shot, pop shot, powder-press operator, precision jig grinder, PRIMER-CHARGING TOOL SETTER, pull holeshaft drilling, shot-core-drill operator, shothole drill, SMOKING-PIPE MAKER, STOKER ERECTOR-AND-SERVICER, stoker-installation mechanic, syphon bricktest borer, test-hole driller, TIRE SETTER, tunneling-machine operatorvise handwash boring, wash driller, water flush. (references)

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Photo Album: Hole Up

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Old swimming hole up South Fork, Breathitt. County, Kentucky.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hole Up

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  hole up

2

  diggin hole up

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hole Up

Language Translations for "hole up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

крия се (absent oneself, darkle, hide, lurk). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zalézt, ukrýt se (go into hiding, shelter), přezimovat v brlohu. (various references)

   

German

  

verstecken (cache, conceal, encryption, ensconce, hide, hide away, occuring, shelter, stash, to cache, to ensconce, to hide, to stash), sich verschanzen (barricade oneself, entrench oneself, take cover), sich verkriechen (creep away). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elrejtőzik (to abscond, to couch, to go into hiding, to hole up, to keep out of sight, to lay low, to play injun, to secrete oneself, to shelter, to take cover), dekkol (to hole up, to lay low). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olehay upay

   

Spanish

  

retirarse a (go out, pull out, walk out), refugiarse (shelter oneself, take cover), ocultarse (abscond, conceal, defilade, disappear, evanish, go in, hide, hide oneself, hide out, hide up, lie up, sink), esconderse (abscond, burrow, go in, go to earth, hide, hide away, lie up, skulk). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yuvasına girmek (hole), kapanmak (be closed, be shut, be suspended, cicatrize, cloister, close down, close up, fold, fold up, go into liquidation, hole, overcast, overcloud, scar over, shut, shut to), köşesine çekilmek (hole, retire to pasture, retreat, sequester oneself), deliğe girmek (hole). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

жити самітно, перебувати у зимовій сплячці. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Hole Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-l-o-p-u"

-1 letter: loupe, ouphe.

-2 letters: helo, help, hole, holp, hope, lope, loup, ouph, pole, pule.

-3 letters: hep, hoe, hop, hue, hup, leu, lop, ole, ope, peh, poh, pol, pul, upo.

-4 letters: eh, el, he, ho, lo, oe, oh, op, pe, uh, up.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-l-o-p-u"
 

+1 letter: hopeful.

 

+2 letters: hopefuls, ploughed, plougher, sulphone, upholder.

 

+3 letters: flophouse, hopefully, playhouse, ploughers, sulphones, turophile, unhopeful, upholders, upholster.

 

+4 letters: acephalous, audiophile, flophouses, houseplant, neutrophil, pilothouse, playhouses, turophiles, unpolished, upholsters, upholstery.

 

+5 letters: ailurophile, ailurophobe, audiophiles, autocephaly, blasphemous, copublished, copublisher, copublishes, diadelphous, hopefulness, houseplants, neutrophils, nucleophile, patchoulies, pilothouses, preluncheon, punchinello, reproachful, reupholster, sulphureous, superschool, upholstered, upholsterer, xerophilous.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Hole Up


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 6F 6C 65      55 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01101111 01101100 01100101 00100000 01010101 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#111 &#108 &#101 &#32 &#85 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 006F 006C 0065      0055 0070

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4281787125582

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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