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hollow
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hollow \Hol"low\, n.
A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.
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A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.
Forests grew Upon the barren hollows.
--Prior.I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood.
--Tennyson.
Hollow \Hol"low\, a. [OE. holow, holgh, holf, AS. holh a hollow, hole. Cf. Hole.]
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Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.
Hollow with boards shalt thou make it.
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Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.
--Shak. Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.
--Dryden.-
Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.
--Milton.Hollow newel (Arch.), an opening in the center of a winding staircase in place of a newel post, the stairs being supported by the wall; an open newel; also, the stringpiece or rail winding around the well of such a staircase.
Hollow quoin (Engin.), a pier of stone or brick made behind the lock gates of a canal, and containing a hollow or recess to receive the ends of the gates.
Hollow root. (Bot.) See Moschatel.
Hollow square. See Square.
Hollow ware, hollow vessels; -- a trade name for cast-iron kitchen utensils, earthenware, etc.
Syn: Syn.- Concave; sunken; low; vacant; empty; void; false; faithless; deceitful; treacherous.
Hollow \Hol"low\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hollowed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Hollowing.]
To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to
excavate. ``Trees rudely hollowed.''
--Dryden.
Hollow \Hol"low\, adv. Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv. [Colloq.]
The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have
beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence.
--Darwin.
Hollow \Hol*low"\, interj. [See Hollo.] Hollo.
Hollow \Hol"low\, v. i. To shout; to hollo.
Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear.
--Fuller.
Hollow \Hol"low\, v. t. To urge or call by shouting.
He has hollowed the hounds.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, from Old English holh (n.) "hollow place, hole," from Proto-Germanic *hul-, from PIE *kel- (2) "to cover, conceal" (see cell). The figurative sense of "insincere" is attested from 1520s. Related: Hollowly; hollowness. To carry it hollow "take it completely" is first recorded 1660s, of unknown origin or connection.
late 14c., holowen, from hollow (adj.). Related: Hollowed; hollowing.
"lowland, valley, basin," 1550s, probably a modern formation from hollow (adj.). Old English had holh (n.) "cave, den; internal cavity."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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1 (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside. 2 (of a sound) distant, eerie; echoing, reverberate, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched. 3 (context figuratively English) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless. 4 (context figuratively English) insincere, devoid of validity; specious. 5 Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken. adv. (context colloquial English) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow. Etymology 2
n. 1 A small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations. 2 A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial. 3 (US) A sunken area. 4 (context figuratively English) A feeling of emptiness. v
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to make a hole in something; to excavate (context transitive English) Etymology 3
interj. (alternative form of hollo English) vb. To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.
WordNet
adj. not solid; having a space or gap or cavity; "a hollow wall"; "a hollow tree"; "hollow cheeks"; "his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year" [ant: solid]
deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses" [syn: false]
as if echoing in a hollow space; "the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom"
devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments" [syn: empty, vacuous]
v. remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillsite" [syn: excavate, dig]
remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk" [syn: hollow out, core out]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Hollow may refer to:
- A low, wooded area, such as a copse
- A term meaning a small vee-shaped riverine type of valley
- Tree hollow, a void in a branch or trunk, which may provide habitat for animals
- A Ghost
"Hollow" is a power ballad by American heavy metal band Pantera from their 1992 album Vulgar Display of Power. A live medley of "Hollow" and another Pantera song, "Domination", is featured on Official Live: 101 Proof as "Dom/Hollow".
"Hollow" is an acoustic song by the heavy metal band Godsmack from their fourth studio album, IV. Frontman Sully Erna and Lisa Guyer are on the song vocals. "Hollow" is the only acoustic song that appeared in the album, and Erna has played it frequently on his solo tour.
Hollow is an EP/ DVD release from hard rock five piece Digital Summer. It was released on March 31, 2008, and featured the single "Rescue Me".
Hollow is a 2011 American film starring Stephen Schmaltz, Catrina Fagundes and Peter Wayne Burke and marks the debut of director Chris Corey in feature length work.
Hollow is a 2011 found footage horror film, directed by Michael Axelgaard, starring Emily Plumtree, Sam Stockman, Jessica Ellerby, and Matt Stokoe. The film is being distributed by Tribeca Film via nationwide On Demand outlets. Hollow premiered at Fantasia Festival. The film also screened at the Raindance Film Festival and was nominated for British Independent Film Award.
Hollow were a progressive power metal band from Umeå, Sweden and is now a solo project by Andreas Stoltz.
The band begun in the early 1990s when members met in the university town of Umeå. Tomas and Andreas had decided to start a band when they met during their military service, serving together in the same platoon. Originally called Valkyrian they decided to change their name to Hollow which they felt was more in tune with their musical style "The name Hollow reflects the constant void within, which we all feel from time to time".
Influenced by acts such as Queensrÿche, Crimson Glory and Elegy in 1995 they released a six track demo called "Speak To Me". In 1997 they released a self-titled Ep with four tracks which caught the attention of MM Records, a small independent label. They then went on to create two albums both released through Nuclear Blast Records, Modern Cathedral (1997) and Architect Of The Mind (1999).
Hollow chose to split up not long after the release of Architect Of The Mind.
Hollow is now a solo project of Andreas Stoltz, who in 2009 released the song "Descending" which was written in memory of Midnight, Crimson Glory's vocalist, who died in 2009.
In 2010 Polish record label Metal Mind Productions remastered and rereleased Architect Of The Mind and Modern Cathedral as a double pack.
"Hollow" is the first single by American rock band Alice in Chains from their fifth studio album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, released in May 28, 2013. On December 18, 2012, the band debuted the song on YouTube with a fan-made lyric video. The lyric video contains static images submitted by fans via Instagram. The song was made available for digital download on January 8, 2013. It is played in a 6/4 time signature during the verses, and in a standard 4/4 signature during the choruses.
Hollow ( Vietnamese: Đoạt Hồn) is a 2014 Vietnamese horror film directed by Ham Tran.
"Hollow" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Tori Kelly for the reissue of her debut studio album, Unbreakable Smile (2015). It was first released to digital retailers on October 19, 2015 as the album's third official single before impacting American contemporary hit radio on November 3, 2015, and serves as the lead single from the reissue. Co-written by Kelly with singer-songwriters Hayley Warner, Zac Poor, Lindsey Jackson and Thom Macken, the song was produced by Adam Anders and Peer Åström.
A midtempo pop song, "Hollow" features fluterring synths and piano as well as drum and hand-clap percussion in its instrumentation. Lyrically, the song addresses Kelly's faith and has been described as a "love song to God." It received positive response from music critics, who praised the song's uplifting message and Kelly's strong vocals. The accompanying music video for the song was released on November 5, 2015 and it shows Kelly performing the track in an abandoned house.
Usage examples of "hollow".
Arums and acanthus and ivy filled every hollow, roses nodded from over every gate, while a carpet of violets and cyclamen and primroses stretched over the fields and freighted every wandering wind with fragrance.
But at that moment an adjutant galloped up with a message from the commander of the regiment in the hollow and news that immense masses of the French were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in disorder and was retreating upon the Kiev grenadiers.
He was thinking of something so widely different, being seated, in fact, just opposite to Sara, who, fresh from her afternoon sleep, was looking adorably pensive in her black dress edged with a soft white frill that took a heart-shaped curve in front, just wide enough to show the exquisite hollow in the lower part of her throat.
On the left side of this wood--that is, the left side to the advancing troops--there stretched a long nullah or hollow, which ran perpendicularly to the hill, and served rather as a conductor of bullets than as a cover.
Well, Mark he know of an old church, in a hollow of the mountains, not far from the coast, to the east of Agios Georgios.
Regardless now of who could see me, I started up the slope of the hollow, back toward Agios Georgios.
With a deer rib bone whose end she had hollowed out to make a small depression, she fed him the agrimony concentration in small sips sometime near midnight.
Inside lay the Hollow, filled with the languid albumin of nothingness.
Slater was found unconscious in the hollow of a tree, and taken to the nearest jail, where alienists from Albany examined him as soon as his senses returned.
Hiawatha Smote amain the hollow oak-tree, Rent it into shreds and splinters, Left it lying there in fragments.
He dipped his tongue into the hollow of her collarbone, and Amelle gasped.
All of half a mile in diameter was this shaft, and ringed regularly along its height by wide amethystine bands -- like rings of a hollow piston.
I heard it, and knew no more--heard it as I sat petrified in that unknown cemetery in the hollow, amidst the crumbling stones and the falling tombs, the rank vegetation and the miasmal vapors--heard it well up from the innermost depths of that damnable open sepulcher as I watched amorphous, necrophagous shadows dance beneath an accursed waning moon.
I settled Victoria in the hollow of my shoulder and watched as Amrita walked to the edge of the pool and smoothed down her tan skirt.
It was a long, low hall, hollowed, like all the rest, in the heart of the mountain, open in front, and adorned with frescoes and anaglyphs of curious design.