Usually means: Gap, opening, or void in material.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. hole, the hole: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hole: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hole: Vocabulary.com
  6. hole: Wordnik
  7. hole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hole: Wiktionary
  9. hole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hole: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hole: Dictionary.com
  13. hole: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hole: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. HolE, Hole (American football), Hole (Bottom), Hole (EP), Hole (Foetus album), Hole (Merzbow album), Hole (band), Hole (chess), Hole (disambiguation), Hole (film), Hole (graph theory), Hole (semiconductor), Hole (surname), Hole, The Hole (Scientology), The Hole (album), The Hole (disambiguation), The Hole (play), The Hole (song), The Hole, The hole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hole: Rhymezone
  19. hole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hole: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Hole: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. hole: Free Dictionary
  23. hole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. hole: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. hole: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hole: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Hole (River): Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hole: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Hole (River), Hole (football), Hole (soccer), The hole (football), The hole (soccer), hole: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. hole: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. HOLE: Acronym Finder
  4. hole: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hole: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. hole, hole, hole: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hole: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Hole: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  5. hole, the hole: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hole: Chess Dictionary
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. hole: Golfer's Dictionary
  4. Hole: Sports Definitions
  5. Hole: Dan's Poker

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. hole: Electronics
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. hole: Printed Circuit Design and Manufacturing Glossary
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  6. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
noun:  An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
noun:  (heading) In games.
noun:  (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
noun:  (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
noun:  (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
noun:  (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
noun:  (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
noun:  In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
noun:  (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
noun:  (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
noun:  (informal) A container or receptacle.
noun:  (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
noun:  (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
noun:  (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
noun:  (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
noun:  (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) Vagina.
noun:  (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
noun:  (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
noun:  (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
noun:  (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
noun:  (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
noun:  (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
verb:  (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To destroy.
verb:  (intransitive) To go into a hole.
verb:  (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
verb:  (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
noun:  A surname.
adjective:  Obsolete spelling of whole.. [Entire, undivided.]
adjective:  Misspelling of whole. [Entire, undivided.]

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