Idioms for hole
Origin of hole
before 900; Middle English; Old English
hol hole, cave, orig. neuter of
hol (adj.)
hollow; cognate with German
hohl hollow
SYNONYMS FOR hole
1, 2
pit,
hollow,
concavity.
Hole,
cavity,
excavation refer to a hollow place in anything.
Hole is the common word for this idea:
a hole in turf.
Cavity is a more formal or scientific term for a hollow within the body or in a substance, whether with or without a passage outward:
a cavity in a tooth; the cranial cavity. An
excavation is an extended hole made by digging out or removing material:
an excavation before the construction of a building.
3 den, cave; lair, retreat.
4 hovel, shack.
OTHER WORDS FROM hole
hole·less, adjective hol·ey, adjectiveWords nearby hole
Example sentences from the Web for hole
British Dictionary definitions for hole
hole
/ (həʊl) /
noun
verb
to make a hole or holes in (something)
(when intr, often foll by out) golf
to hit (the ball) into the hole
Word Origin for hole
Old English
hol; related to Gothic
hulundi, German
Höhle, Old Norse
hylr pool, Latin
caulis hollow stem; see
hollow
Scientific definitions for hole
hole
[ hōl ]
A gap, usually the valence band of an insulator or semiconductor, that would normally be filled with one electron. If an electron accelerated by a voltage moves into a gap, it leaves a gap behind it, and in this way the hole itself appears to move through the substance. Even though holes are in fact the absence of a negatively charged particle (an electron), they can be treated theoretically as positively charged particles, whose motion gives rise to electric current.
Idioms and Phrases with hole
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