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Definition: Hole |
HoleNoun1. An opening into or through something. 2. An opening deliberately made in or through something. 3. One playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course; "he played 18 holes". 4. An unoccupied space. 5. A depression hollowed out of solid matter. 6. A fault; "he shot holes in my argument". 7. Informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage". 8. Informal terms for the mouth. Verb1. In golf: hit the ball into the hole. 2. Make holes in. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hole" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Hole \Hole\, noun. [Old English hol, hole, Anglo-Saxon hol, hole, cavern, from hol, a., hollow; akin to Dutch hol, Old High German hol, German hohl, Danish huul hollow, hul hole, Swedish h[*a]l, Icelandic hola; probably from the root of Anglo-Saxon helan to conceal. See Hele, Hell, and compare to Holdof a ship.]. (references) |
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Computing | Hole n. A region in an otherwise flat entity which is not actually present. For example, some Unix filesystems can store large files with holes so that unused regions of the file are never actually stored on disk. (In techspeak, these are referred to as `sparse' files.) As another example, the region of memory in IBM PCs reserved for memory-mapped I/O devices which may not actually be present is called `the I/O hole', since memory-management systems must skip over this area when filling user requests for memory. Source: Jargon File. |
Aerospace | A mobile vacancy in the electronic valence structure of a semiconductor which acts like an electron with a positive charge. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A fictitious positively-charged particle introduced in semiconductor theory in order to simplify treatments of valence-band electronic conduction. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The vacancy appearing in a normally filled energy band behaving like a positive charge carrier. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A transient vacancy due to the ejection of an electron from the atomic structure of an insulator or a semiconductor and having the same behaviour as a carrier with charge equal and opposite to that of the electron. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Energy | The vacancy where an electron would normally exist in a solid; behaves like a positively charged particle. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Any sort of passage, tubular or irregular, made by an organism feeding or excavating, more particularly by insects and marine borers. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | As the perforated pattern card moves into place on the cylinder. . . the needle pass through the -- in the card, and the warps are raised. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Hole Pick a hole in his coat. To find out some cause of blame. The allusion is to the Roman custom of dressing criminals in rags (Livy, ii. 61). Hence, a holey coat is a synonym for guilt. "Hear, Land o' cakes and brither Scots Frae Maidenkirk to Johnny Groat's If there's a hole in a your coats I rede you tent it; A chield's amang you taking notes, And, faith, he'll prent it." Burns: On the late Capt. Grose, stanza 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Medicine | A natural hole of perforation, expecially one in a bone. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Thirl:to cut through from one working into another; thirling:the driving of a proposed roadway from two points some distance apart and to meet each other-the connecting of underground roadways or shafts; holing:the final act of connecting two roadways underground-the meeting of two roadways driven expressly to intersect each other. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A hole or well drilled or bored principally by mechanical means in order to explore geological conditions and/or to tap oil deposits. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A. In Joplin, Missouri, a local term for a mine shaft b. A drill hole, borehole, or well. See also:borehole c. To undercut a seam of coal by hand or machine d. To make a communication from one part of a mine to another e. To pick out the soft clay beneath a lode or seam of coal preparatory to wedging or blasting the mass out. (references) | |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | A passage through the core of a reactor. Source: European Union. (references) |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | Vacancy on a page. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: From a hole in the ground. Definition: A certain spot on the mountain where everyone keeps falling, no matter who they are. Context: They used the word when they see a spot on the mountain where a lot of people have fallen, or a place where they keep falling. Social Source: Bend Oregon snowboarders. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
| Noun. Source: The basketball rim has a hole in it. Definition: A basketball rim. Context: Would be used instead of basketball rim in reference to the making or missing of shots, not particularly in refernce to the rim itself. Social Source: Basketball Players. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In solid state physics, an electron hole (usually referred to simply as a hole) is the absence of an electron from the otherwise full valence band. A full (or nearly full) valence band is present in semiconductors and insulators. The concept is of a hole is essentially a simple way to analyse the movement of large numbers of electrons in such substances.Hole conduction can be explained by the use of the following analogy. Imagine a row of people seated in an auditorium, where there are no spare chairs. Someone in the middle of the row wants to leave, so they jump over the back of the seat into an empty row, and walk out. This empty row is analogous to the conduction band, and the person walking out is analogous to a free electron.
Now imagine someone else comes along and wants to sit down (the empty row has a poor view, no one wants to sit there). Instead, the person next to the empty seat moves along and sits in it, leaving an empty seat one spot closer to the edge. The next person follows, and the next. One could say that the empty seat moves towards the edge of the row. Once the empty seat reaches the edge, the new person can sit down.
But in the process, everyone in the row has moved along. If those people were charged (like electrons), this movement would constitute conduction. This is how hole conduction works.
Instead of analysing the movement of an empty state in the valence band as the movement of billions of electrons, physicists propose an imaginary particle called a "hole". In an applied electric field, all the electrons move one way, so the hole moves the other way. The physicists therefore say that the hole must have positive charge - in fact, they assign a charge of +e - precisely the opposite of the electron charge.
Using Coulomb's law, we can calculate the force on the "hole" due to an electric field. Physicists then propose an effective mass which will relate the (imaginary) force on the (imaginary) hole to the acceleration of that hole.
It turns out that effective mass is fairly independent of velocity or direction, which means physicists can (in some cases) pretend that the hole is simply a positive charge moving through a vacuum, with a mass of, say 0.36me (a value typical for silicon).
See also: electrical conduction, semiconductor, bandgap, effective mass
An alternate meaning for the term electron hole is used in computational chemistry. In coupled cluster methods, the ground (or lowest energy) state of a molecule is interpreted as the "vacuum state" — conceptually, in this state there are no electrons. In this scheme, the absence of an electron from a normally-filled state is called a "hole" and is treated as a particle, and the presence of an electron in a normally-empty state is simply called an "electron".
This terminology is almost identical to that used in solid-state physics. The major difference is in the theory used to describe each type of hole. A solid-state hole is seen as a free particle with an effective mass, possibly with incremental improvements on that model. A physical chemistry hole is analysed by using the Schrödinger equation directly.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Electron hole."
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The term hole may refer to:
- An electron hole, the absence of an electron in the valence band in solid state physics and electronics.
- A musical group fronted by Courtney Love named Hole.
- Holes is a book by Louis Sachar.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hole."
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Hole was a musical group, formed in 1989 and (officially) disbanded in 2002, fronted by Courtney Love and co-founded by Eric Erlandson.After a number of releases on independent record labels Hole released their major label debut "Live Through This" (1994) shortly after the suicide death of Love's husband Kurt Cobain.
Hole's band members have changed frequently over the years, the line-up of Hole's last album "Celebrity Skin" (1998) was Love (lead vocals), Melissa Auf der Maur (bass), Eric Erlandson (guitars), and Patty Schemel (drums).
Although Love's flamboyant personality and controversial statements have often overshadowed the reception of Hole's music, it should be stressed that Hole's band members comprised some of the finest musicians in the world. Both Erlandson and Auf der Maur excelled in their instruments, and Patty Schemel has to be counted among the top-five female drummers in the world.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hole (band)."
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The municipality Hole in the county of Buskerud, Norway, has 5,117 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hole, Norway."
Synonyms: HoleSynonyms: fix (n), gob (n), golf hole (n), hollow (n), jam (n), kettle of fish (n), maw (n), mess (n), muddle (n), pickle (n), trap (n), yap (n), hole out (v). (additional references) |
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Abode | Nest, nidus, snuggery; arbor, bower; lair, den, cave, hole, hiding place, cell, sanctum sanctorum, aerie, eyrie, eyry, rookery, hive; covert, resort, retreat, perch, roost; nidification; kala jagah. |
Incompleteness | Missing piece, missing part, gap, hole, lacuna. |
Interval | Noun: interval, interspace; separation; break, gap, opening; hole; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha. |
Place | Noun: place, lieu, spot, point, dot; niche, nook; (corner); hole; pigeonhole; (receptacle); compartment; premises, precinct, station; area, courtyard, square; abode; locality; (situation). |
Receptacle | Compartment; cell, cellule; follicle; hole, corner, niche, recess, nook; crypt, stall, pigeonhole, cove, oriel; cave; (concavity). |
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Screenplays | I imagine that right now you're feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) That punk put a hole in my Versace (Mission: Impossible II; writing credit: Bruce Geller; Ronald D. Moore) Egon, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole in your head, remember that (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.) One man's life touches so many others, when he's not there it leaves an awfully big hole. (It's a Wonderful Life; writing credit: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett and Frank Capra. based on the story 'The Greatest Gift' by Philip Van Doren Stern.) Yes, and there will be one less on this boat if you don't shut that hole in your face In the actual event, Molly Brown was going to throw Hutchins overboard (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron) | |
Lyrics | There's a hole in my heart (Hole Hearted; performing artist: Extreme) WHEN YOU GONNA TAKE ME OUT OF THIS BLACK HOLE (Never Ever; performing artist: All Saints) Will drill a hole in you (Turn Back Time; performing artist: Aqua) Like I need a hole in my head (Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now); performing artist: Cracker) Now I'm towing my car, there's a hole in the roof (Don't Dream It's Over; performing artist: Crowded House) | |
Clever | When a mouse laughs at a cat, there's usually a hole nearby. (references; author: Arabian Proverb) Never share a fox hole with anyone braver than you. (references; author: unknown) A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it. (references; author: unknown) You're trailer trash when you need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Hole Lot of Trouble (1971) The Hole (1962) A Hole in the Head (1959) The Hole Idea (1955) Ace in the Hole (1942) | |
Song Titles | Fishin' Hole, The (performing artist: Fred Penner) Black Hole Sun (performing artist: Soundgarden) Ozone Hole, The (performing artist: Voice In Time) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Tree hole, Aedes mediovittatus mosquito breeding site. Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Credit: CDC. |  | Largest-Ever Ozone Hole Observed Over Antarctica. Credit: NASA. |
 | Hole in the Ozone Layer Over Antarctica. Credit: NASA. |  | Hubble Space Telescope's ongoing black hole hunt has bagged yet another supermassive black ... Credit: NASA. |
 | When 19th century astronomer Sir John Herschel spied a swirling cloud of gas with a hole ... Credit: NASA. |  | Black hole at the center of a galaxy. (NGC 4438). Credit: NASA. |
 | Killer whales - Orcinus orca - note blow hole in nearest animal. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Running Snow Hole Rapids on Salmon River Transportation for level party Level party of Ira Rubottom. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Nautical chart of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1857. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Looking at Buzzards Bay from The Knob, Woods Hole. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
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| "Hole in the Rocks" by Ron McCray Commentary: "A natural juxstoposition of small boulders guarding an opening to a small ledge overlooking Garner Valley in the San Jacinto Mountains of southern California." | "Hole" by Antonio Redondo Commentary: "Dark." |
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 | Dirt; construction; worker; digging; dig; excavation; excavating; excavate; hole; earth; . | | Bubble; pop; future; space; science fiction; breach; bare; break in; break out; broach; burst; bust in; come apart; crack; disclose; display; disrupt; expand; expose; fissure; free; gap; gape; hole; jimmy; kick in; lacerate; lance; penetrate; perforate; p. |
| Clink; jail; prison; behind bars; locked up; lock up; lock down; incarceration; incarcerated; Bastille; big cage; big house; big school; black hole; booby hatch; brig; bull pen; caboose; cage; calaboose; can; cell; cooler; coop; county hotel; death house. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Arabian Proverb | When a mouse laughs at a cat, there's usually a hole nearby. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. |
Josh Billings | A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. |
Lucretius | The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. |
Thomas Fuller | A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. |
Thomas Jefferson | The hole and the patch should be commensurate. |
Titus Maccius Plautus | Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only. |
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Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | And he went and he tumbled into a deep hole. |
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe | Douglas Adams | exclaimed both of Zaphod's heads in chorus. "So safe that you have to build a zarking fortress ship to take the by-products to the nearest black hole and tip them in |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was reached by the spiral staircase which terminated at the corner of the room in a square hole like the hatchway of a ship |
The Hobbit: or There and Back Again | J.R.R. Tolkien | In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A frightful hole he said it was. |
Brighton Beach Memoirs | Neil Simon | You had a hole in your pocket |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The next wind pried into the hole where the shingle had been, lifted off three, and the next, a dozen |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He said they saw my stick and handkerchief thrust out of the hole, and concluded that some unhappy men must be shut up in the cavity |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The Indians had advanced so far as to regulate the effect of the wind by a mat suspended over the hole in the roof and moved by a string |
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Health | The hole is called a stoma. (references) | |
Then the doctor cuts a small hole in the baby's abdomen. (references) | ||
If you see “powder” in or around the hole, clean the inhaler. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Yemen | A small bomb blasted a 12-foot hole in the wall of Christ Church in Aden on New Year's Day; there were no reported injuries. (references) |
Human Rights | Colombia | On June 23, 98 inmates (including 19 guerrillas) escaped from La Picota prison by blowing a hole in a wall with a gas cylinder. (references) |
Colombia | On February 19, 20 prisoners escaped from the prison in Neiva, Huila department, when the FARC blew a hole in the wall with a rocket. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Aetna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar. |
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| "Hole" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.23% of the time. "Hole" is used about 4,535 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.23% | 4,500 | 2,172 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.59% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.09% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.07% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,535 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "hole" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Hole | Last name | 1,000 | 13,037 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "hole". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Hauran | N/A | Biblical | A hole |
| Hur | N/A | Biblical | Hole |
| Huram | N/A | Biblical | Their hole |
| Pashur | N/A | Biblical | That extends or multiplies the hole |
| Peor | N/A | Biblical | Hole |
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Expressions using "hole": a hole in the ozone layer ♦ a square peg in a round hole ♦ ace in the hole ♦ Air hole ♦ altitude hole ♦ auxiliary hole ♦ basic hole system ♦ be in a hole ♦ beam hole ♦ bell hole ♦ Bethe hole coupler ♦ black hole ♦ Black Hole of Calcutta ♦ blast hole ♦ bolt hole ♦ bore a hole ♦ bore hole ♦ borer hole ♦ bug hole ♦ bullet hole ♦ button hole ♦ captured hole ♦ center hole ♦ centre hole ♦ chrome hole ♦ Chuck hole ♦ clearance hole for bolts ♦ clearing hole ♦ coincidence hole card ♦ coincidence hole cards ♦ counter sunk hole ♦ Cradle hole ♦ crooked hole ♦ Cunningham hole ♦ departure hole ♦ dig a hole ♦ dig a hole in the ground ♦ drainage hole ♦ drill hole ♦ drilled guide hole ♦ drive a hole ♦ dry hole plug ♦ dust hole ♦ ear hole ♦ entrance hole ♦ every hole and corner ♦ experimental hole ♦ Eyelet hole ♦ fill in a hole ♦ find a hole to creep out of ♦ finger hole ♦ Floss hole ♦ fox hole ♦ frost hole ♦ funk hole ♦ Fuse hole ♦ Gammoning hole ♦ glazed inspection hole ♦ Glory hole ♦ glory hole spillway ♦ go the hole hog ♦ golf hole ♦ gopher hole ♦ gully drain hole ♦ Gully hole ♦ Hawse hole ♦ he is a square peg in a round hole ♦ heavy hole ♦ his money burns a hole in his pocket ♦ Hole and corner ♦ hole basis ♦ hole basis limit system ♦ Hole board ♦ hole card ♦ hole for a hinge ♦ hole in one's coat ♦ hole in smth. ♦ Hole in the air ♦ hole in the ground ♦ hole in the ice ♦ hole model ♦ hole out ♦ hole planting ♦ hole up ♦ index hole ♦ indexing hole ♦ insect hole ♦ interlevel via hole ♦ Judas hole ♦ knee hole ♦ knot hole ♦ landless hole ♦ leach hole ♦ Lewis hole ♦ limber hole ♦ lime hole ♦ lubbers hole ♦ lubber's hole ♦ make a hole ♦ make a hole in ♦ make a hole in the water. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hole": hole-and-corner, hole-basis, hole-behind-the-eye, hole-burning, hole-by-hole, hole-filled, hole-filling, hole-free, hole-gauge, hole-in-corner, hole-in-one, hole-in-one-golfer, hole-in-the, hole-in-the-corner, hole-in-the-floor, hole-in-the-wall, hole-int-wall, hole-in-wall, hole-in-wan, hole-istic, hole-maker, hole-mouth, hole-nesting, hole-to-block. | |
Ending with "hole": arse-hole, black-hole, button-hole, cross-hole, cubby-hole, down-hole, hell-hole, Hetton-le-hole, Hutton-le-hole, key-hole, nest-hole, nine-hole, one-hole, pigeon-hole, plug-hole, rabbit-hole, spy-hole, water-hole. | |
Containing "hole": dark-hole-eyed, Hand-hole plate, Pin-hole pupil, post-hole digger. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
glory hole | 6,024 | glory hole story | 210 |
hole | 4,437 | hole sticky | 199 |
jackson hole | 3,424 | hole soundtrack | 192 |
black hole | 1,868 | jackson hole lodging | 186 |
jackson hole wyoming | 860 | wood hole | 180 |
hole movie | 859 | hole in one golf | 179 |
jackson hole wy ski resort | 389 | hole in world | 169 |
hole in one | 353 | eagle hole in world | 167 |
jackson hole wy | 344 | gaping hole | 158 |
female glory hole | 287 | butt hole | 155 |
glory hole girl | 282 | hole book | 152 |
corn hole | 273 | black hole picture | 150 |
hole lyrics | 266 | glory hole location | 149 |
freak hole | 262 | swimming hole | 138 |
corn game hole | 259 | glory hole woman | 138 |
sink hole | 256 | glory hole pic | 133 |
gay glory hole | 232 | blue hole | 129 |
glory hole sex | 227 | black hole sun | 129 |
hole in one insurance | 212 | jackson hole hotel | 128 |
post hole digger | 211 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "hole"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | sloot (ditch, pit), lek, gat. (various references) | |
Albanian | pikë e dobët (foible), batak (mire, morass, sink, Slough), birë (bore, puncture, spy hole), biroj (bore, drill, perforate, puncture), defekt (blowing, defect, failing, fault, handicap), fus në gropë (pot), gropë (cave, cavity, dint, dugout, excavation, hollow, pocket, sink, socket, sump, trough), çarje në digë, i hap vrima, zgavër (cavity, hollow, Lacuna, socket, trough, vault), shpoj (bore, broach, drill, drive, flesh, impale, jab, perforate, Pierce, pink, poke, prick, prickle, punch, puncture, run through, Spike, spit, stab, stick, sting), skutë (corner, dump, hide, hideaway, hiding place), strofull (burrow, den, foxhole, hideout, lair, mew, nest, tunnel, Warren), vërë, vështirësi financiare (difficulties), vrimë (aperture, bore, dump, ear, excavation, eye, eyehole, eyelet, gap, leak, mesh, mortise, mouth, notch, notching, nozzle, open, opening, orifice, Peck, perforation, pinhole, prick, puncture, recession, rent, shell-hole, slit, slot, tear, vent, venthole), vrimë e ndyrë, gropë në rrugë. (various references) | |
Arabic | فجوة (aperture, breach, break, cavity, chamber, chasm, crack, crevasse, crevice, discontinuity, fissure, gap, hiatus, lacuna, opening), كوة (aperture, loophole, louver, opening, scuttle, skylight, small window), نقصان (decrease, diminution), ورطة (box, deadlock, dilemma, entanglement, fix, hot water, jam, maw, mess, pickle, plight, predicament, quagmire, quandary, stalemate), حفرة (bore, cavity, excavation, fossa, grave, hollow, pit, trough), تجويف (bore, bowl, cavity, chamber, concavity, dent, excavation, hollow, pit, pocket, recess, scoop, sinus, socket), صالة (cinema), جحر (terrier), ثقب (aperture, bore, broach, drill, hull, orifice, peck, perforate, perforation, pick holes in smth., pierce, prick, prickle, punch, puncture, tear, vent), شق (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crash, crevasse, crevice, cut, excavate, fissure, flaw, fracture, hew, incise, incision, jag, loophole, lump, nick, open, overture, part, rift, rip, rive, slash, slit, slot, snag, snip, spiracle, splinter, split, spring, tear, twist), بئر (focus, well). (various references) | |
Basque | zulo. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отвор (aperture, eye, mesh, mortise, mouth, nose, opening, orifice, perforation, port, vent), дупчица (eyelet, puncture), изход (conclusion, egress, event, exit, issuance, issue, mouth, outcome, outflow, outlet, result, way out), правя дупка (gap), пробивам (bore, break through, broach, jump, nip, perforate, pip, prick, rupture, scuttle, sink, smash in), пробивам отвор (vent), бърлога (cubbyhole, delve, den, house, lair, pandemonium, retreat, sanctum), заливче (armlet, cove, fleet, indentation), затруднено положение (corner, fix, millstone, quag, quagmire), затънтено място (backwater, corner, jumping-off-place, nowhere), недостатък (blemish, debit, defect, deficiency, demerit, disadvantage, disfiguration, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, imperfection, kink, objection, shortcoming, vice, weakness), дупка (cavity, chamber, delve, dump, earth, gap, hutch, leak, mesh, opening, perforation, pit, pore, rent, scoop, tear, vent), отбелязвам точка (score), яма (crater, excavation, pit), отвърстие (issue, opening, orifice, osculum), вдлъбнатина (chase, concave, concavity, cove, groove, hollow, indent, indentation, indention, notch, pan, pit, recess, socket, well), вирче, влизам в дупка, вкарвам в дупка, всмукнатина (pipe), кухина (cavity, chamber, fossa, hollow, lumen, pit, recess, ventricle, vug), шупла (knot, nipple, pipe, piping, pore), трап (excavation, pit, trap, vampire), трапчинка (dimple, indent, indentation, socket), нелогичност (illegitimacy, illogicality, inconsequence). (various references) | |
Catalan | forat. (various references) | |
Chinese | 孔 . (various references) | |
Czech | jáma (air pocket, colliery, pit), díra (backwater, burrow, gap, joint, leak, pit, puncture, rip, split, tear, vent). (various references) | |
Danish | hul (concave, hollow). (various references) | |
Dutch | kuil (cave, cavity, ditch, pit, pole), groeve (ditch, grave, pit, tomb), groef (ditch, furrow, pit, slot, wrinkle), greppel (ditch, pit), gracht (canal, channel, ditch, pit), gat (aperture, backside, cave, cavity, opening, rump). (various references) | |
Esperanto | truo, fosaĵo (ditch, pit). (various references) | |
Faeroese | hol (aperture, cave, cavity, opening), kulla (cave, cavity). (various references) | |
Farsi | نقب (Burrow, Mine, Tunnel), لانه خرگوش وامثال ان , گودال (Cavern, Cavity, Grave, Pit, Puddle, Sinus, Swag, Trench, Vesicle), حفره (Cavern, Cavity, Cell, Dale, Delve, Ditch, Lacuna, Pit, Pothole, Sinus, Socket, Ventricle), سوراخ (Bore, Leak, Mesh, Orifice, Outage, Overture, Peck, Pigenhole, Puncture), روزنه کندن , درلانه کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | reikä (aperture, gap, opening, slot). (various references) | |
French | trou (index hole, indexing hole, positive hole), orifice, lacune. (various references) | |
Frisian | dobbe (cave, cavity, ditch, pit). (various references) | |
German | loch (aperture, can, cavity, clink, dump, gap, hovel, jug, leak, notch, opening, pit, pocket, pool, puncture). (various references) | |
Greek | τρύπα (cavity, leak, puncture, vent), οπή (aperture, bore, borehole, leak). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חור (aperture, bore, cavity, pore, socket). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lyuk (burrow, cavity, chuck-hole, earth, eye, leakage, pit, puncture, sector, socket, vent), gödör (pit, pot hole, pothole, socket, swale). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lobang (aperture, slot), gohong (cave), gerong, gaung (ravine, resonance, reverberation), ceruk (compartment, cranny, shaft), bobokan (aperture). (various references) | |
Irish | poll. (various references) | |
Italian | buco (aperture, bore, cavity, dimple, opening, prick), foro (bore, bullet hole, forum, vent), buca (foxhole, gap, hiatus, hollow, pit, pothole, space). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 穴 (arse, ass, buttocks). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ホール (hall), あなぼこ (hollow), あな. (various references) | |
Korean | 구멍 (BORE, Cavities, Cavity, slot). (various references) | |
Malay | lubang. (various references) | |
Manx | towley (bore, boring, broach, drilling, transfix, undermine), towl (aperture, bore, bore of gun, boring, bung hole, burrow, cavity, crater, den, den of fox, earth, eyehole, hollow, leak, penetration, perforation, port, pothole, shaft, vent, vent-hole, water supply), dhull (bung, drain plug, peg, plug). (various references) | |
Norwegian | hull (gap). (various references) | |
Occitan | trauc. (various references) | |
Papiamen | gohera, goera. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | olehay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | furo (bore, boring, flat, hub, loophole, orifice, perforation, puncture, rapierthrust), buraco (aperture, boring, cup, loophole, mouth, opening, orifice, rent), abertura (access, aperture, bay, breach, cage, candor, candour, chink, gap, hack, highroad crossing, jaws, loophole, maw, opening, openness, overture, passage, rent, rift, slit, slot, splay, stoma, vent, window, yawn). (various references) | |
Romanian | locuinţã mizerabilã, bãga în pãmânt, cavitate (cave, cavity, delve, dimple, hollow, hollowness, recess, socket), cocioabã (hovel, hut, kennel, shanty, sty), copcã (air hole, hook), defect (defect, deficiency, demerit, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, imperfection, infelicity, lame, shortcoming, ulcer, vice, want, weakness), deschizãturã (aperture, breach, eyehole, gap, loophole, louver, mouth, opening, orifice, out, slit, vent), for a (bore), adânci (aggravate, Bury, corrode, deepen, delve, excavate, fathom, further, gouge, sound, submerge, subside), gaurã (aperture, burrow, cave, cavity, den, earth, eyelet, gap, hollow, loop, opening, orifice, pink, vent), vizuinã (burrow, den, earth, haunt, kennel, lair), orificiu (aperture, loop, mouth, orifice, port, vent), rupturã (breach, break, breaking, cleavage, discontinuance, disruption, failure, inrush, rag, rend, rent, rift, rip, rupture, slit, tear), sãdi (Dibble, implant, plant, print, set), sãpa (burrow, cave, cut, delve, dig, drive, engraft, engrave, excavate, grave, hoe, hollow, inscribe, lift, mine, pick, sink, spud, trench, undermine), sãpa dedesubt, scobi (cave, dig, groove, gutter, hew out, hollow, Peck, pick, recess), scobiturã (dimple, excavation, flute, groove, hollow, hollowness, lug, trough), se piti (cringe), gãuri (bore, drift, drill, Gore, perforate, Pierce, pink, pounce, prick, prickle, puncture, spring, vent). (various references) | |
Russian | дыра (dump, jag, rent, tear). (various references) | |
Scottish | toll (a hole, cavity, crevice : toll-dubh, hollow, perforate). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zjap (opening), saterati u rupu, rupa (burrow, chuck-hole, gap, pit, pothole), probušiti (perforate, pierce, puncture, trepan), otvor (aperture, gape, hatch, mouth, opening, orifice, port, scuttle, vent, ventage), jazbina (burrow, burrower, den, lair), škripac (fix, jam, pinch, scrape, strait, straits). (various references) | |
Spanish | agujero (bore, leak, perforation), zanja (ditch, drain, pit, sap, trench, trough), hueco (airy-fairy, alcove, cave, cavity, chimerical, concave, conceited, empty, fantastic, frivolous, gap, hollow, of fantasy, pocket, recess, vain, void, well). (various references) | |
Sranan | olo. (various references) | |
Swahili | tundu. (various references) | |
Swedish | hål (gap, holes, mouth, opening, potato, tear, well), glugg (aperture, opening). (various references) | |
Tagalog | bútas. (various references) | |
Thai | สถานการณ์ที่น่าอึดอัดใจ, รู. (various references) | |
Turkish | hücre (cabin, cell, cellular, cubicle), boşluk (abysm, abyss, antrum, backlash, blank, blankness, cavity, chamber, chasm, clear, clearance, daylight, desideratum, emptiness, gap, gulf, hiatus, hollow, hollowness, idleness, inanition, Lacuna, nothingness, nullity, separation, sinus, slack, slackness, space, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, voidness), deliğe girmek (hole up), deliğe sokmak (hole out, pocket), delik (aperture, bore, cavity, den, hollow, mortice, mortise, opening, perforation, port, prick, prison, slot, stir, vent, ventage, venthole), delik açmak (bore, dig a hole, drill, honeycomb, make a hole in, Pierce, ream, ream out, run through, slot, vent), delmek (bore, broach, dig into, dig through, drill, make a hole in, perforate, pick, Pierce, pink, prick, puncture, ream, ream out, Spike, stab, stave in, stick), çukur (cavity, concave, deep set, dimple, dip, excavation, gully, gully drain, gutter, hollow, indent, pit, scoop, sink, sunk, trench), in (burrow, cave, couch, den, earth, haunt, lair), zor durum (cleft stick, crunch, den, foul, grievousness, impasse, lurch, nice pickle, pickle, push, sad pickle, scrape, sorry pickle, spot, tight corner, toughie), köşesine çekilmek (hole up, retire to pasture, retreat, sequester oneself), kapanmak (be closed, be shut, be suspended, cicatrize, cloister, close down, close up, fold, fold up, go into liquidation, hole up, overcast, overcloud, scar over, shut, shut to), kazmak (cave, cave in, dig, disinter, excavate, grub, hollow, hollow out, mine, pick, pick up, sink, spud, trench), kodes (bull pen, cage, can, choky, clink, cooler, gaol, jail, jug, pen, prison, quod, stir), kovuk (cavity, cove, pocket, recess, sinus), oyuk (alcove, bore, burrow, cavern, cavity, excavation, gouge, hallow, hollow, niche, pit, pocket, sinus, socket), yuvasına girmek (hole up), derin yer. (various references) | |
Turkmen | hin (burrow), deюik (full of holes), зukurlyk (pit), зukur (pit), зukanak, зarkandak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | яма (barathrum, delve, pit), отвір (air gap, aperture, bore, boring, breach, break, canal, clearance, embrasure, gape, mesh, mouth, open, opening, orifice, ostiole, perforation, port, ventage, window), лаз (manhole), проривати (rupture), продірявлювати, діра, довбати (chisel). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thiếu sót (defect, imperfection, limitation, shortcoming), rỗ tổ ong khuyết điểm, người bố trí không thích hợp với công tác, người đặt không đúng chỗ, lỗ trống, lỗ thủng (leak, ventage), lỗ khoan lỗ đáo, lỗ (orifice, scuttle, socket, vent), bới lông tìm vết nồi tròn vung méo. (various references) | |
Welsh | tyllu (bore, perforate, pierce), twll (aperture, bore), crau (blood, eye, gore, socket, stockade, sty). (various references) | |
Yucatec | hool (aperture, opening). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | buru, habrud, hur, ki-in-dar, ub. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cavus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | makha. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 21, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai legei autoiV gegraptai o oikoV mou oikoV proseuchV klhqhsetai umeiV de auton epoihsate sphlaion lhstwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et dicit eis scriptum est domus mea domus orationis vocabitur vos autem fecistis eam speluncam latronum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & cwæð te heom. hit ys awriten minhus ys bed-hus. Witodlice ge worhten þt toþeof-coten. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he seith to hem, It is writun, Myn hous schal be clepid an hous of preier; but ye han maad it a denne of theues. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And sayde to them: It is wrytten my housse shalbe called the housse of prayer. But ye have made it a denne of theves. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And said to them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he said to them, It is in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer, but you are making it a hole of thieves. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 21, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | Ug miingon siya kanila, "Nahisulat kini, `Ang akong balay pagatawgon nga balayng ampoanan`; apan gihimo ninyo kini nga langub sa mga tulisan." |
| Croatian | Kaže im: "Pisamo je: Dom æe se moj zvati Dom molitve, a vi od njega èinite peæinu razbojnièku." |
| Danish | Og han siger til dem: "Der er skrevet: Mit Hus skal kaldes et Bedehus; men I gøre det til en Røverkule." |
| Dutch | En Hij zeide tot hen: Er is geschreven: Mijn huis zal een huis des gebeds genaamd worden; maar gij hebt dat tot een moordenaarskuil gemaakt. |
| Finnish | Ja hän sanoi heille: "Kirjoitettu on: `Minun huoneeni pitää kutsuttaman rukoushuoneeksi`, mutta te teette siitä ryövärien luolan." |
| French | Et il leur dit: Il est écrit: Ma maison sera appelée une maison de prière. Mais vous, vous en faites une caverne de voleurs. |
| German | und sprach zu ihnen: Es steht geschrieben: "Mein Haus soll ein Bethaus heißen"; ihr aber habt eine Mördergrube daraus gemacht. |
| Hungarian | És monda nékik: Meg van írva: Az én házam imádság házának mondatik. Ti pedig azt latroknak barlangjává tettétek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu Ia berkata kepada orang-orang itu, "Di dalam Alkitab tertulis bahwa Allah berkata, 'Rumah-Ku akan disebut rumah tempat berdoa.' Tetapi kalian menjadikannya sarang penyamun!" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | serta berkata kepada mereka itu, "Telah tersurat: Bahwa Rumah-Ku akan disebut rumah tempat berdoa; tetapi kamu ini menjadikan dia gua penyamun." |
| Italian | e disse loro: «La Scrittura dice: ma voi ne fate una spelonca di ladri». |
| Manx Gaelic | As dooyrt eh roo, Te scruit, Bee my hie's enmyssit thie yn phadjer, agh ta shiuish er n'yannoo eh ny ooig dy vaarlee. |
| Maori | A ka mea ki a ratou, Kua oti te tuhituhi, Ka kiia toku whare he whare inoi; heoi kua oti nei te mea e koutou hei ana mo nga kaipahua. |
| Norwegian | og han sa til dem: Det er skrevet: Mitt hus skal kalles et bedehus. Men I gjør det til en røverhule. |
| Rumanian | wi le -a zis: ,,Este scris: ,Casa Mea se va chema o casq de rugqciune.` Dar voi ayi fqcut din ea o pewterq de tklhari.`` |
| Russian | Й ЗПЧПТЙМ ЙН: ОБРЙУБОП, --ДПН нПК ДПНПН НПМЙФЧЩ ОБТЕЮЕФУС; Б ЧЩ УДЕМБМЙ ЕЗП ЧЕТФЕРПН ТБЪВПКОЙЛПЧ. |
| Shuar | Nuyá Tímiayi "Yus-Papinium aarchamukait, "Yusa Jeenka Yus aujtai jéaiti." Antsu átumka kasa matsamtaiya Nútikiarme" Tímiayi. |
| Swahili | Akawaambia, "Imeandikwa katika Maandiko Matakatifu: `Nyumba yangu itaitwa nyumba ya sala.` Lakini ninyi mmeifanya kuwa pango la wanyang`anyi." |
| Swedish | Och han sade till dem: "Det är skrivet: 'Mitt hus skall kallas ett bönehus.' Men I gören det till en rövarkula." |
| Uma | Na'uli' -raka: "Hi rala Buku Tomoroli' Alata'ala mpo'uli' hewa toi: `Tomi-ku mpai' rakahangai' tomi posampayaa.' Hiaa' koi' -koina, niponcawa tomi toperampaki-di!" |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hole": holed, holeless, holes, holey. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "hole": airhole, anethole, armhole, blowhole, bolthole, borehole, bunghole, buttonhole, chuckhole, coalhole, cubbyhole, dhole, eyehole, feedhole, foxhole, gunkhole, hawsehole, hellhole, keyhole, kneehole, knothole, loophole, manhole, mudhole, oilhole, peephole, pesthole, pigeonhole, pinhole, porthole, posthole, pothole, rathole, sinkhole, taphole, thole, thumbhole, touchhole, wellhole, whole, wormhole. (additional references) | |
Words containing "hole": airholes, anetholes, anticholesterol, armholes, blowholes, boltholes, boreholes, bungholes, buttonholed, buttonholer, buttonholers, buttonholes, cholecalciferol, cholecalciferols, cholecystectomies, cholecystectomized, cholecystectomy, cholecystitides, cholecystitis, cholecystokinin, cholecystokinins, cholelithiases, cholelithiasis, cholent, cholents, choler, cholera, choleras, choleric, cholerically, cholers, cholestases, cholestasis, cholestatic, cholesteric, cholesterol, cholesterols, cholestyramine, cholestyramines, chuckholes, coalholes, cubbyholes, dholes, echoless, eyeholes, feedholes, foxholes, grapholect, grapholects, gunkholed, gunkholes. (additional references) | |
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"Hole" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dhoble, dhole, dholuo, Eole, halem, halen, halle, hally, haodle, haole, helle, helwe, hiel, Hile, hiley, hilge, hinle, hle, hlen, hli, hlo, hoble, hoce, hoel, hofe, hogle, Hohlov, hoil, hoile, hoke, hola, Holah, holbech, holc, holde, holdee, Holec, holer, holi, holie, Holkema, holl, holle, Holli, Holne, Holon, holp, hols, holse, Holte, holuc, Holye, holz, Hooe, Hool, Hoola, hoole, hooli, hooliz, Hosley, houe, houl, houla, Houle, hovle, howle, hoye, hoyle, hoyler, hoze, Huel, huile, hulce, hule, hulge, hulle, hulu, hyle, iole, Khoele, mhole, ohl, ohoe, rhoplex, yole, zole. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hole" (pronounced hō"l) |
| 3 | h ō" l | whole. |
| 2 | -ō" l | bole, Boll, bowl, cajole, coal, Cole, control, decontrol, dhole, dole, droll, enroll, espanol, extol, foal, goal, sole, soul, stole, stroll, knoll, Kohl, mole, ole, parole, patrol, pistole, pole, poll, role, roll, scroll, skoal, thole, tole, toll, troll. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: helo. | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-l-o" | |
-1 letter: hoe, ole. | |
-2 letters: eh, el, he, ho, lo, oe, oh. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-l-o" | |
+1 letter: dhole, haole, helio, hello, helos, helot, holed, holes, holey, hosel, hotel, hovel, hoyle, mohel, sheol, thole, whole. | |
+2 letters: behold, behowl, choler, cloche, clothe, dholes, enhalo, eolith, haloed, haloes, haoles, helios, hellos, helots, hobble, holden, holder, holier, holies, holked, holler, holpen, homely, hondle, hoolie, hopple, hosels, hostel, hotels, housel, hovels, howled, howler, howlet, hoyles, isohel, loathe, louche, mohels, phenol, phloem, sheols, shovel, tholed, tholes, wholes. | |
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