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hole
(hōl)n.
1. A hollowed place in something solid; a cavity or pit: dug a hole in the ground with a shovel.
2.
a. An opening or perforation: a hole in the clouds; had a hole in the elbow of my sweater.
b. Sports An opening in a defensive formation, such as the area of a baseball infield between two adjacent fielders.
c. A fault or flaw: There are holes in your argument.
3. A deep place in a body of water.
4. An animal's hollowed-out habitation, such as a burrow.
5. An ugly, squalid, or depressing dwelling.
6. A deep or isolated place of confinement; a dungeon.
7. An awkward situation; a predicament.
8. Sports
a. The small pit lined with a cup into which a golf ball must be hit.
b. One of the divisions of a golf course, from tee to cup.
9. Physics A vacant position in an atom left by the absence of a valence electron, especially a position in a semiconductor that acts as a carrier of positive electric charge. Also called electron hole.
v. holed, hol·ing, holes
v.tr.
1. To put a hole in.
2. To put or propel into a hole.
v.intr.
Phrasal Verbs: To make a hole in something.
hole out Sports
To hit a golf ball into the hole.
hole up
Idiom: 1. To hibernate in or as if in a hole.
2. Informal To take refuge in or as if in a hideout.
in the hole
1. Having a score below zero.
2. In debt.
3. At a disadvantage.
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| Verb | 1. | hole out - hit the ball into the hole golf, golf game - a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes hit - cause to move by striking; "hit a ball" |
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Translations
يَضرِب الكُرَة في حُفْرَة الغولف
zahrát míček do jamky
få i hul
slá golfkúlu í holu
vurup çukura sokmak
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hole
(həul) noun1. an opening or gap in or through something. a hole in the fence; holes in my socks.
2. a hollow in something solid. a hole in my tooth; Many animals live in holes in the ground.
3. (in golf) (the point scored by the player who takes the fewest strokes to hit his ball over) any one of the usually eighteen sections of the golf course between the tees and the holes in the middle of the greens. He won by two holes; We played nine holes.
verb1. to make a hole in. The ship was badly holed when it hit the rock.
2. to hit (a ball etc) into a hole. The golfer holed his ball from twelve metres away.
hole out verb to hit a golfball into a hole.
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