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hole [n]

1)	an opening into or through something

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gap aperture bolt-hole bullet_hole cranny leak ozone_hole perforation rathole knothole

2)	an opening deliberately made in or through something

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opening air_hole armhole bunghole button_hole countersink cup ear_hole eye eyelet finger_hole finger_hole hawse keyhole loophole lubber's_hole manhole mortice mouth_hole nail_hole peephole perforation plughole post_hole puncture sound_hole thumbhole blowhole

3)	one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course; "he played 18 holes"

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golf_hole

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period_of_play golf_course dogleg

4)	an unoccupied space

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space pore

5)	a depression hollowed out of solid matter

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hollow

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depression dig core_out burrow gopher_hole kettle cavity chuckhole rabbit_burrow wormhole

6)	a fault; "he shot holes in my argument"

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defect

7)	informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"

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fix jam kettle_of_fish mess muddle pickle

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difficulty dog's_breakfast

8)	informal terms for the mouth

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cakehole gob maw trap yap

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mouth

hole [v]

1)	hit the ball into the hole

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hole_out

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hit golf golf_hole

2)	make holes in

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core_out

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

The absence of an electron in a semiconductor material. In the electron model, a hole can be thought of as an incomplete outer electron shell in a doping substance. Holes can also be thought of as positive charge carriers; while this is in a sense a fiction, it is a useful abstraction.

(1995-10-06)

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