What is "hole"

Hole \Hole\, v. t. [AS. holian. See Hole, n.]

1. To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
   --Chapman.

2. To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.

Hole \Hole\, v. i. To go or get into a hole.
--B. Jonson.

Hole \Hole\ (h[=o]l), a. Whole. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

Hole \Hole\ (h[=o]l), n. [OE. hol, hole, AS. hol, hole, cavern, from hol, a., hollow; akin to D. hol, OHG. hol, G. hohl, Dan. huul hollow, hul hole, Sw. h[*a]l, Icel. hola; prob. from the root of AS. helan to conceal. See Hele, Hell, and cf. Hold of a ship.]

1. 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.

   The holes where eyes should be.
   --Shak.

   The blind walls Were full of chinks and holes.
   --Tennyson.

   The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.
   --2 Kings xii. 9.

2. An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation.
   --Dryden.

   The foxes have holes, . . . but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
   --Luke ix. 58.

3. (Games)

   1. A small cavity used in some games, usually one into which a marble or ball is to be played or driven; hence, a score made by playing a marble or ball into such a hole, as in golf.

   2. (Fives) At Eton College, England, that part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.

      Syn: Hollow; concavity; aperture; rent; fissure; crevice; orifice; interstice; perforation; excavation; pit; cave; den; cell.

      Hole and corner, clandestine, underhand. [Colloq.] ``The wretched trickery of hole and corner buffery.''
      --Dickens.

      Hole board (Fancy Weaving), a board having holes through which cords pass which lift certain warp threads; -- called also compass board.

"to make a hole," Old English holian "to hollow out, scoop out" (see hole (n.)). Related: Holed; holing.

Old English hol "orifice, hollow place, cave, perforation," from Proto-Germanic *hul (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old High German hol, Middle Dutch hool, Old Norse holr, German hohl "hollow," Gothic us-hulon "to hollow out"), from PIE root *kel- (2) "to cover, conceal" (see cell).\n

\nAs a contemptuous word for "small dingy lodging or abode" it is attested from 1610s. Meaning "a fix, scrape, mess" is from 1760. Obscene slang use for "vulva" is implied from mid-14c. Hole in the wall "small and unpretentious place" is from 1822; to hole up first recorded 1875. To need (something) like a hole in the head, applied to something useless or detrimental, first recorded 1944 in entertainment publications, probably a translation of a Yiddish expression such as ich darf es vi a loch in kop.

n. 1 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. 2 #An opening in a solid. 3 (lb en heading) ''In games.'' 4 #(lb en 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. 5 #(lb en golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes. 6 #(lb en baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman. 7 #(lb en chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn. 8 #(lb en 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. 9 # In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox. 10 (lb en archaeology slang) An excavation pit or trench. 11 (lb en figuratively) A weakness, a flaw 12 (lb en informal) A container or receptacle. 13 (lb en physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle. 14 (lb en computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit. 15 (lb en slang anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus. 16 (context Ireland idiomatic English) sex, or a sex partner (context particularly in the phrase, "get one's hole") English) 17 (lb en informal with “the”) solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment. 18 (lb en slang) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel. 19 (lb en figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt. 20 (cx graph theory English) A chordless cycle in a graph. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make holes in (an object or surface). 2 (context transitive by extension English) To destroy. 3 To go or get into a hole. 4 (context transitive English) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in. 5 (context transitive English) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball. 6 (en-simple past of: hele)

1. v. hit the ball into the hole [syn: hole out]

2. make holes in

1. n. 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" [syn: golf hole]

4. an unoccupied space

5. a depression hollowed out of solid matter [syn: hollow]

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" [syn: fix, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish]

8. informal terms for the mouth [syn: trap, cakehole, maw, yap, gob]

In E. coli and other bacteria, holE is a gene that encodes the theta subunit of DNA polymerase III.

Hole is a Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel album released in September 1984. It was the first Foetus material released by Self Immolation through Some Bizzare. In 1995, Hole was given a US re-release by Thirsty Ear.

Hole is Self Immolation #WOMB FDL 3.

Hole is an EP by the Sheffield, UK, instrumental post-rock band 65daysofstatic, released on 14 March 2005 on Monotreme Records. The title track is taken from their album The Fall of Math.

"Hole" is the first episode of the third series of British television sitcom, Bottom. It was first broadcast on 6 January 1995. It is the last of only three episodes (along with Culture and Contest) to feature only the two main characters, however it is the only one of the three to be set entirely outside of the flat. It is also a single-scene real-time episode

Hole is an album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. It is a limited edition of 500 copies, 200 of which were only available for sale in Japan. 50 copies only available through Soleilmoon mailorder, and included an additional card and came wrapped in paper.

The title "Krafft-Ebbings Dick" refers to the early German sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing (with one b). " Krautrock #1" was recorded live in Germany, the title refers to the genre of music.

Hole is a surname. Notable individuals with the surname include:

A hole in American football is a space in between the defensive linemen, through which the running back aims to run. It is also known as a running lane. These can be predesignated holes defined by the spacing between players before the snap, or they can be established by moving players around and establishing the holes after the snap (in a play called a run-to-daylight).

Hole was an American alternative rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1989 by singer and guitarist Courtney Love and lead guitarist Eric Erlandson. The band had a revolving line-up of bassists and drummers, their most prolific being drummer Patty Schemel, and bassists Kristen Pfaff (d. 1994) and Melissa Auf der Maur. Hole went on to become one of the most commercially successful female-fronted rock bands of all time, selling over three million records in the United States alone.

Initially prolific in Los Angeles' punk rock scene, the band collaborated with Kim Gordon for their critically acclaimed debut album, Pretty on the Inside (1991), following it with the more commercially viable Live Through This (1994), which was widely acclaimed and reached platinum status within a year of its release. With Love's lyrics explicitly discussing issues of body image, identity, and sexual exploitation, Hole became the most high-profile musical group of the 1990s to discuss feminist issues in their songs, and also gained considerable media coverage due to Love's reckless and disturbing live performances. Their third release, the more polished Celebrity Skin (1998), garnered them four Grammy nominations. In 2002 the group disbanded to pursue other projects.

In 2009, Hole was reformed by Love with new members, despite Erlandson's claim that the reformation breached a mutual contract he had with Love; the reformed band released the album Nobody's Daughter (2010). In 2014, Love confirmed in interviews with BBC and Pitchfork that she was writing new material and that a reunion with the band's previous members had future potential, though the date was indeterminate. In an April 2016 interview, Auf der Maur shed further light on the ongoing reunion talks, saying that while she no longer had the time or interest to record new material with Hole, she was hopeful the band could come together one more time to compile "a proper, immersive retrospective that would include demos, outtakes, live recordings, video and photos."