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Whole (adjective)
Entire.
“I ate a whole fish.”
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Whole (adjective)
Sound, uninjured, healthy.
“He is of whole mind, but the same cannot be said about his physical state.”
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Whole (adjective)
From which none of its constituents has been removed.
“whole wheat;”
“whole milk”
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Whole (adverb)
In entirety; entirely; wholly.
“I ate a fish whole!”
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Whole (noun)
Something complete, without any parts missing.
“This variety of fascinating details didn’t fall together into an enjoyable, coherent whole.”
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Whole (noun)
An entirety.
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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.”
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Hole (noun)
In games.
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Hole (noun)
An opening in a solid.
“There’s a hole in my bucket.”
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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Hole (noun)
An excavation pit or trench.
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Hole (noun)
A weakness, a flaw
“I have found a hole in your argument.”
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Hole (noun)
A container or receptacle.
“car hole;”
“brain hole”
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Hole (noun)
In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
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Hole (noun)
A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
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Hole (noun)
An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
“Just shut your hole!”
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Hole (noun)
Sex, or a sex partner.
“Are you going out to get your hole tonight?”
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Hole (noun)
Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
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Hole (noun)
An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
“His apartment is a hole!”
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Hole (noun)
Difficulty, in particular, debt.
“If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”
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Hole (noun)
A chordless cycle in a graph.
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Hole (verb)
To make holes in (an object or surface).
“Shrapnel holed the ship’s hull.”
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Hole (verb)
To destroy.
“She completely holed the argument.”
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Hole (verb)
To go into a hole.
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Hole (verb)
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
“Woods holed a standard three foot putt”
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Hole (verb)
To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
“to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars”