noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "There’s a hole in my shoe. Her stocking has a hole in it." part gap geology nature environment place structure building Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (heading) In games. Examples : "After nine holes, we stopped playing golf for lunch. " game Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An excavation pit or trench. Examples : "The construction workers dug deep holes for the foundation of the new building. " geology environment area Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity. Examples : "I have found a hole in your argument." aspect quality gap Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A container or receptacle. Examples : "car hole; brain hole" utility item thing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle. Examples : "In this silicon chip, the movement of holes allows the semiconductor to conduct electricity, almost as if positive charges are flowing. " physics electronics material Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit. Examples : "The company rushed to release a patch after programmers discovered several security holes in their new app. " computing internet technology technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth. Examples : "Just shut your hole!" body anatomy sex organ Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner. Examples : "Are you going out to get your hole tonight?" sex body human Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment. Examples : "After the riot, several inmates were sent to the holes for a month. " government law Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel. Examples : "His apartment is a hole!" place property Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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noun Download 🔗Share A chordless cycle in a graph. Examples : "The presence of holes in the social network graph meant that information couldn't flow efficiently between all groups of students at the school. " math theory Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To make holes in (an object or surface). Examples : "The carpenter holes the wood to insert the screws. " action material utility Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (by extension) To destroy. Examples : "She completely holed the argument." action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To go into a hole. Examples : "When the bell rang, the students quickly holed into their classrooms. " nature action place Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball. Examples : "Woods holed a standard three foot putt" animal sport game Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in. Examples : "to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars" action work technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading