hole
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
Noun 4 meanings
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.”
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.”
In games.
A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
“I have found a hole in your argument.”
Verb 4 meanings
To make holes in (an object or surface).
“Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.”
To destroy.
“She completely holed the argument.”
To go into a hole.
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
“Woods holed a standard three foot putt”
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol (“hole”), from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to hollow.
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HOLE at a glance
HOLE has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (H 4 + O 1 + L 1 + E 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,152 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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