Whole vs. Hole

By Jaxson

  • Whole (adjective)

    Entire.

    “I ate a whole fish.”

  • Whole (adjective)

    Sound, uninjured, healthy.

    “He is of whole mind, but the same cannot be said about his physical state.”

  • Whole (adjective)

    From which none of its constituents has been removed.

    “whole wheat;”

    “whole milk”

  • Whole (adverb)

    In entirety; entirely; wholly.

    “I ate a fish whole!”

  • Whole (noun)

    Something complete, without any parts missing.

    “This variety of fascinating details didn’t fall together into an enjoyable, coherent whole.”

  • Whole (noun)

    An entirety.

  • Hole (noun)

    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.

    “There’s a hole in my shoe.”

    “Her stocking has a hole in it.”

  • Hole (noun)

    In games.

  • Hole (noun)

    An opening in a solid.

    “There’s a hole in my bucket.”

  • Hole (noun)

    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.

  • Hole (noun)

    The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.

    “I played 18 holes yesterday.”

    “The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.”

  • Hole (noun)

    The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.

    “The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.”

  • Hole (noun)

    A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.

  • Hole (noun)

    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.

  • Hole (noun)

    An excavation pit or trench.

  • Hole (noun)

    A weakness, a flaw

    “I have found a hole in your argument.”

  • Hole (noun)

    A container or receptacle.

    “car hole;”

    “brain hole”

  • Hole (noun)

    In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.

  • Hole (noun)

    A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.

  • Hole (noun)

    An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.

    “Just shut your hole!”

  • Hole (noun)

    Sex, or a sex partner.

    “Are you going out to get your hole tonight?”

  • Hole (noun)

    Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.

  • Hole (noun)

    An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.

    “His apartment is a hole!”

  • Hole (noun)

    Difficulty, in particular, debt.

    “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”

  • Hole (noun)

    A chordless cycle in a graph.

  • Hole (verb)

    To make holes in (an object or surface).

    “Shrapnel holed the ship’s hull.”

  • Hole (verb)

    To destroy.

    “She completely holed the argument.”

  • Hole (verb)

    To go into a hole.

  • Hole (verb)

    To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.

    “Woods holed a standard three foot putt”

  • Hole (verb)

    To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

    “to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars”

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