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”