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单词 hole
释义

hole

See also: Hole, holé, and hòle

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /həʊl/, [hɔʊɫ]
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /hɐʉl/, [hɞʉɫ]
  • (General American) IPA(key): /hoʊl/, [hoɫ]
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  • Rhymes: -əʊl
  • Homophone: whole

Etymology 1

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”), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to hollow.

Noun

hole (plural holes)

  1. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
    I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg.  I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.
    • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene vii]:
      To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks.
    • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175:
      Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
  2. An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
    There’s a hole in my shoe.  Her stocking has a hole in it.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Kings 12:9:
      The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.
    • 1840, Alfred Tennyson, Godiva:
      […] her palfrey’s footfall shot
      Light horrors thro’ her pulses: the blind walls
      Were full of chinks and holes; and overhead
      Fantastic gables, crowding, stared: […]
  3. (heading) In games.
    1. (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
    2. (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
      I played 18 holes yesterday.  The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.
    3. (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
      The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.
    4. (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
    5. (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
    6. In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
  4. (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
  5. (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
    I have found a hole in your argument.
    • 2011, Fun (lyrics and music), “We Are Young”:
      But between the drinks and subtle things / The holes in my apologies, you know / I’m trying hard to take it back
  6. (informal) A container or receptacle.
    car hole;  brain hole
  7. (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
  8. (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
  9. (slang, anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
    Just shut your hole!
  10. (Ireland, Scotland, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
    Are you going out to get your hole tonight?
  11. (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
    Synonym: box
    • 2011, Ahmariah Jackson, IAtomic Seven, Locked Up but Not Locked Down
      Disciplinary actions can range from a mere write up to serious time in the hole.
  12. (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
    His apartment is a hole!
    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 109:
      I have often heard people say, "One can't live upon a view," and I have heard some of the most beautiful places called "awful holes," simply because of the monotonous lives led in them.
  13. (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
    If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
  14. (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
  15. (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
    We’re supposed to take the hole at Cronk and wait for the Limited to pass.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:hole
  • (solitary confinement): administrative segregation, ad-seg, block (UK), box, cooler (UK), hotbox, lockdown, pound, SCU, security housing unit, SHU, special handling unit
Derived terms
Terms derived from hole (noun)
  • ace in the hole
  • a-hole
  • air hole
  • analog hole
  • analogue hole
  • arm hole
  • arrow-hole
  • arsehole
  • ass hole
  • asshole
  • Aubrey hole
  • batty hole
  • bean hole
  • Beck Hole
  • bench-hole
  • blackhole
  • black hole
  • black-hole
  • blind hole
  • blowhole
  • blue hole
  • bolthole
  • bolt-hole
  • bonus hole
  • borehole
  • boy hole
  • BTZ black hole
  • bullet hole
  • bung-hole
  • burn a hole in one's pocket
  • burr hole
  • button hole
  • buttonhole
  • button-hole
  • cakehole
  • cat hole
  • cathole
  • cat-hole
  • c-hole
  • clearance hole
  • cloud hole
  • coal hole
  • cookie hole
  • core hole
  • coronal hole
  • countersunk hole
  • cradle hole
  • cryoconite hole
  • cubbyhole
  • cubby hole
  • cum hole
  • cum-hole
  • Dane-hole
  • d-hole
  • dig a hole for oneself
  • dig oneself in a hole
  • dig oneself into a hole
  • dig out of a hole
  • docker hole
  • doghole
  • donut hole
  • dookie hole
  • doughnut hole
  • Dove Holes
  • drinking hole
  • dry hole
  • dumb hole
  • dust hole
  • electron hole
  • en
  • fallstreak hole
  • ff-hole
  • f-hole
  • finger hole
  • firehole
  • fire in the hole
  • five-hole
  • floss hole
  • foxhole
  • fox hole
  • fox-hole
  • front hole
  • funk hole
  • glory hole
  • glory-hole
  • gnamma hole
  • gobble hole
  • go five-hole
  • graph hole
  • gully-hole
  • gunk-hole
  • hand-hole
  • hardy hole
  • hell hole
  • Hell hole
  • hell-hole
  • hellhole
  • Hetton-le-Hole
  • hide-hole
  • hidey-hole
  • high-hole
  • hole-and-corner
  • hole-board test
  • hole card
  • hole carding
  • hole in one
  • hole in the head
  • hole-in-the-wall
  • hole punch
  • hole punch cloud
  • hole saw
  • hole state
  • holey
  • honey hole
  • in the hole
  • jaw-hole
  • Johnson hole
  • Judas-hole
  • Kerr black hole
  • Kerr-Newman black hole
  • kettle hole
  • keyhole
  • K-hole
  • know one's ass from a hole in the ground
  • know one's head from a hole in the ground
  • know someone from a hole in the ground
  • know someone from a hole in the wall
  • know the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground
  • knucker hole
  • like a hole in one's head
  • like a hole in the head
  • like one needs a hole in the head
  • loop hole
  • loophole
  • love hole
  • lubber's hole
  • maintenance hole
  • man-hole
  • manhole
  • melon hole
  • memory-hole
  • memory hole
  • mouse-hole
  • mousehole
  • murder hole
  • murder-hole
  • news hole
  • nineteenth hole
  • oar-hole
  • oarhole
  • optical black hole
  • overflow hole
  • ozone hole
  • pesthole
  • pick a hole in someone's coat
  • pie hole
  • pie-hole
  • pigeon hole
  • pigeon-hole
  • pigeonhole
  • pilot-hole
  • pilot hole
  • pin-hole
  • placket hole
  • plot hole
  • plughole
  • poophole
  • pot-hole
  • pothole
  • pot hole
  • potholing
  • priest hole
  • priest's hole
  • primordial black hole
  • pritchel hole
  • put the wood in the hole
  • rabbit hole
  • rathole
  • rat hole
  • regular black hole
  • Reissner-Nordström black hole
  • Schwarzschild black hole
  • scupper hole
  • security hole
  • s-hole
  • sink hole
  • sink-hole
  • sinkhole
  • sludge hole
  • slut hole
  • sound hole
  • spider hole
  • square peg in a round hole
  • starting hole
  • supermassive black hole
  • swallow hole
  • sweat hole
  • swimming hole
  • teaze-hole
  • through-hole technology
  • thru-hole technology
  • toad in a hole
  • toad in the hole
  • toad-in-the-hole
  • tone hole
  • top-hole
  • top hole
  • touchhole
  • touch-hole
  • touch hole
  • water-hole
  • water hole
  • watering hole
  • watering hole attack
  • white hole
  • winding hole
  • wonky hole
  • work the hole
Descendants
  • → Japanese: ホール (hōru)
  • → Korean: 홀 (hol)
  • Sranan Tongo: olo
Translations
orifice (see anus etc. for specific body cavities)
pit — see pit
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Verb

hole (third-person singular simple present holes, present participle holing, simple past and past participle holed)

  1. (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
    Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
  2. (transitive, by extension) To destroy.
    She completely holed the argument.
  3. (intransitive) To go into a hole.
    • 1631, Ben Jonson, The Staple of News, Act IV, scene ii:
      Good master Picklock, with your worming brain,
      And wriggling engine-head of maintenance,
      Which I shall see you hole with very shortly!
      A fine round head, when those two lugs are off,
      To trundle through a pillory!
  4. (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
    • 1799, Sporting Magazine (volume 13, page 49)
      If the player holes the red ball, he scores three, and upon holing his adversary's ball, he gains two; and thus it frequently happens, that seven are got upon a single stroke, by caramboling and holing both balls.
    Woods holed a standard three foot putt
  5. (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
    to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars
Derived terms
  • holeable
  • holer
  • hole out
  • hole up
Translations
to destroy — see destroy

Adjective

hole (comparative holer or more hole, superlative holest or most hole)

  1. Obsolete spelling of whole.
    • 1843, Sir George Webbe Dasent (translator), A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue (originally by Rasmus Christian Rask)
      Such was the arrangement of the alphabet over the hole North.

Anagrams

  • Hoel, OHLE, helo, ohel, oleh

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɦolɛ]

Noun

hole

  1. inflection of hůl:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Verb

hole

  1. masculine singular present transgressive of holit

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhoːlə/

Verb

hole

  1. inflection of holen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Hausa

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hóː.lèː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [hóː.lèː]

Verb

hōlḕ (grade 4)

  1. to relax, to enjoy oneself

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hāl.

Adjective

hole

  1. healthy
  2. safe
  3. whole, complete, full
Alternative forms
  • hol, ol, ole, hoal, hoale, hoel, hoil, hoille, holle, wholle
  • hal, hale, halle (Northern)
References
  • “hōl(e, adj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Adverb

hole

  1. wholly
Alternative forms
  • hol
References
  • “hōl(e, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Noun

hole (plural holes)

  1. whole, entirety
  2. health
  3. remedy, cure
Alternative forms
  • hol
References
  • “hōl(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Descendants

  • English: whole
  • Scots: hole, holl

Etymology 2

From Old English hol.

Noun

hole (plural holes or holen)

  1. hole
Alternative forms
  • hol, ol, ole, holle, hoil, houl, hul
Descendants
  • English: hole (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: hole
  • Yola: hullès (plural)

References

  • “hō̆l(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

From Old English hulu; see hull for more.

Noun

hole (plural holes)

  1. hull (outer covering of a fruit or seed)
  2. hut, shelter
  3. hull (of a ship)
Alternative forms
  • hol, holle, hul, hule, ule, hulle, ulle, hoile, huole
Descendants
  • English: hull
  • Scots: huil

References

  • “hol(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Verb

hole

  1. past participle of helen (“to cover”)
    Synonym: heled
Alternative forms
  • holn

Adjective

hole

  1. Alternative form of hol (“hollow”)

Noun

hole (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of oile (“oil”)

Noun

hole (plural holen)

  1. Alternative form of oule (“owl”)

Adjective

hole

  1. Alternative form of holy (“holy”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hola.

Noun

hole f or m (definite singular hola or holen, indefinite plural holer, definite plural holene)

  1. alternative form of hule

References

  • “hole” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • hòle

Etymology

From Old Norse hola.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²hoːlə/

Noun

hole f (definite singular hola, indefinite plural holer, definite plural holene)

  1. a cave
  2. a cavity (anatomy)
  3. a den

Derived terms

  • augehole

References

  • “hole” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Middle High German holen, from Old High German holon, from Proto-West Germanic *holōn (“to fetch”). Compare German holen, Dutch halen. Related to English haul.

Verb

hole

  1. to fetch

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɦole]

Noun

hole f

  1. inflection of hoľa:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

Sotho

Noun

hole class 17 (uncountable)

  1. far away

Yola

Verb

hole

  1. Alternative form of helt

References

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 47
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