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hole English

Meaning hole meaning

What does hole mean?
Definitions in simple English

hole Noun

— A hole is an empty space in an object or material. He fell into the water through a hole in the ice. They dug a hole in the ground for the tree. — In golf, a hole is the place you tried to hit the ball into. It took four shots to get the ball in the hole.

hole

— noun an opening into or through something — noun an opening deliberately made in or through something — noun one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course he played 18 holes — noun (= hollow) a depression hollowed out of solid matter — noun an unoccupied space — noun a fault he shot holes in my argument — verb make holes in — verb hit the ball into the hole — noun (= fix, muddle) informal terms for a difficult situation he got into a terrible fix he made a muddle of his marriage — noun (= trap) informal terms for the mouth

Synonyms hole synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as hole?

hole English » English

pit cavity opening hollow cave aperture perforation gap burrow den puncture orifice slit breach slot crack leak lair fissure ditch chink cavern tunnel rent mouth excavation depression crevice chasm pierce dent window well vent nest cleft bore tear foramen eye be punctured rift pothole port pore lacuna interstice have a hole gob flaw

Topics hole topics

What do people use hole to talk about?
Universe, creation Animal

Animal home
Physical actions Divide into pieces

Make hole, opening
Universe, creation World Land

Underground
Physical actions Divide into pieces

Dig
States Location Area

Interval, space
Universe, creation Water Bodies of water

Spring, well
Physical actions Arrange

Organize
Universe, creation Animal

Parts of an animal

Conjugation hole conjugation

How do you conjugate hole?

hole · verb

Examples hole examples

How do I use hole in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Watch out! There's a big hole there.
There is a hole in his sock.
They are boring a hole.
There's a big hole.
I want you to dig a hole.
This hole should be stopped up.
Tom drilled a hole in the wall and hit a water pipe.
There's a hole in my sock.
Tom dug a big hole in the garden.
There is a hole in your sock.
Look out! There's a hole in the road.
A hole in one is moving on the whole.
Just once, I'd like to get a hole-in-one some day.
There's a hole in the bottom of the bucket.
A rat chewed a hole in the wall.
The glove has a hole in the thumb.
The dog was digging a hole.
The diameter of the hole was slightly larger.
This stone has a hole in the center.
There is a big hole in your stocking.
Let's plug up the hole.
The hole is about five feet across.

Movie subtitles

The projectile's gonna come through this hole, slam into this target, which is about two feet across - this is just ordinary sand - and we'll see if it survives.
This hole is just.
Let's go have a donut hole.
Let's go have a donut hole shoved into a donut.
What, this shit hole?
A lot better than havin' a hole in your guts.
He stepped in a prairie-dog hole and broke his neck.
Pony stepped in a dog hole.
I suppose a prairie dog shot that hole through your saddle and into your horse.
Never thought I'd ever crawl back into this hole.
My club, a hole?
Fire in the hole!
How deep is this hole?
Make a hole in the water.
What they're looking for is an alco-hole.
I suppose a prairie dog shot that hole through your saddle and into your horse, eh?
Never thought I'd ever crawl back - into this hole.
One more peep and I'll throw you in the hole.
We've been down in the hole.
Look at the port hole.
You've never lived like a dog in a hole. and scrimped and saved.
Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out.
Come on, clean out that hole!
It means escape from this cursed hole.
I'M GONNA PUT A HOLE IN HIS HEAD. NO! WAIT!
This. This hole is just.
I'm sorry. I went online today, and I got you a vintage tux with a hole in it, that I'm gonna patch over with a swatch from your father's radiology scrubs.
I'm going, see you in the next hole.
Christ, that's some hole.
We drove by the place in a laundry truck, me peeking out of a hole in the side.
I would crawl through a hole for him.
Miss Miller's husband is taking her to Europe, and she's leaving a hole that we won't be able to fill very easily.

News and current affairs

Its current account is sliding into an ever-deeper deficit hole.
Any government bailout that pays fair value for these assets will do nothing to repair that hole.
Labour, by contrast, argues that immediate spending cuts would wreck the recovery - that the hole in the economy, not the government budget deficit, is the problem needing most attention.
I learned this first-hand while attending this year's Jackson Hole Symposium in the remote wilderness of Wyoming, where, ironically, there are almost no homes to buy.
Many toxic substances are released into the environment, even some that are not toxic but nonetheless are highly damaging - for example, the chlorofluorocarbons that caused the Antarctic ozone hole (and which are now regulated).
If it had turned out that chlorine behaved chemically like bromine, the ozone hole would by then have been a global, year-round phenomenon, not just an event of the Antarctic spring.
But their efforts are only digging a bigger hole for the US economy, making recovery much more difficult.
In his recent speech to the annual, elite central-banking conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the Bank of England's Andy Haldane made a forceful plea for a return to simplicity in banking regulation.
That is why the Six should stop digging a deeper hole.
At the annual meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in August, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde suggested that the Fund would intervene to help emerging markets in crisis.
But tax hikes alone with not close Japan's fiscal black hole.
CAMBRIDGE - Inflation - its causes and its connection to monetary policy and financial crises - was the theme of this year's international conference of central bankers and academics in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Draghi made that very point in his speech at the annual gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in late August, and several economists have suggested that it is time for the eurozone to engineer a temporary fiscal expansion.
In trying to repair communism, he punched a hole in it.
Indeed, advanced countries, including the US, have dug themselves into a deep hole.
In that case, countercyclical policies - both fiscal and monetary - could eventually be expected to plug the demand hole and get the economy going again, just as Keynesians argue.
Is Bangladesh headed into the black hole that consumed Afghanistan under the Taliban?
But financial markets were glued to the speech he gave in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on August 26. What they heard was a bit of a muddle.
In May, Hungarian reformers began tearing down the fence along their border with Austria - a hole in the Iron Curtain.
Their clothes and bedcovers were made of cotton, not wool, and an open hole served as the cell's lavatory.
So how do central banks dig their way out of this deep hole?
It is not yet a hole of the type one finds in Greece, where restoring fiscal balance and reviving economic growth are probably impossible without a restructuring of public debt.
So, despite Cameron being in a largely self-dug hole, the EU should show some flexibility in its negotiations with Britain over questions that do not concern the Union's basic principles.
ECB President Mario Draghi's message in his speech last month in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, as well as at his September press conference was a clear call for more fiscal support to boost effective demand.
The economy was still expanding in the late summer of 2007, when I spoke at the US Federal Reserve's annual Jackson Hole conference about serious risks to the economic outlook.

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