hole : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hole	by the DICT Development Group
8 results for hole
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hole n an opening into or through something an opening deliberately made in or through something one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course; "he played 18 holes" Synonym(s): hole, golf hole an unoccupied space a depression hollowed out of solid matter Synonym(s): hole, hollow a fault; "he shot holes in my argument" informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" Synonym(s): fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish informal terms for the mouth Synonym(s): trap, cakehole, hole, maw, yap, gob v hit the ball into the hole Synonym(s): hole, hole out make holes in
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hold \Hold\, v. t. {To hold up}. To stop in order to rob, often with the demand to hold up the hands. [Colloq.] Hole \Hole\, n. (Games) (a) 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. (b) (Fives) At Eton College, England, that part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hole \Hole\ (h[omac]l), a. Whole. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hole \Hole\, 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[86]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. Syn: Hollow; concavity; aperture; rent; fissure; crevice; orifice; interstice; perforation; excavation; pit; cave; den; cell. {Hole and corner}, clandestine, underhand. [Colloq.] [bd]The wretched trickery of hole and corner buffery.[b8] --Dickens. {Hole board} (Fancy Weaving), a board having holes through which cords pass which lift certain warp threads; -- called also {compass board}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hole \Hole\, v. i. To go or get into a hole. --B. Jonson.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
hole n. A region in an otherwise {flat} entity which is not actually present. For example, some Unix filesystems can store large files with holes so that unused regions of the file are never actually stored on disk. (In techspeak, these are referred to as `sparse' files.) As another example, the region of memory in IBM PCs reserved for memory-mapped I/O devices which may not actually be present is called `the I/O hole', since memory-management systems must skip over this area when filling user requests for memory.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
hole The absence of an {electron} in a {semiconductor} material. In the {electron model}, a hole can be thought of as an incomplete outer electron shell in a doping substance. Holes can also be thought of as positive charge carriers; while this is in a sense a fiction, it is a useful abstraction. (1995-10-06)