Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word hole. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in hole.
Definitions and meaning of hole
hole
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /həʊl/, [hɔʊɫ]
(General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /hɐʉl/, [hɔʊɫ]
(General American) IPA(key): /hoʊl/, [hoɫ]
Rhymes: -əʊl
Homophone: whole
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishhole, hol, from Old Englishhol(“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic*hol, from Proto-Germanic*hulą(“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic*hulaz(“hollow”), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to hollow.
Noun
hole (pluralholes)
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
(heading)In games.
(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.
(golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
(baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
(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.
(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.
In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
(archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
(figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
(Can we verify(+) this sense?)(informal) A container or receptacle.
(physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
(computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
(slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
(slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
(Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) Vagina.
(informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
Synonym:box
(slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
(figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
(graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
(slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
(Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
Synonyms
See also Thesaurus:hole
(solitary confinement):administrative segregation, ad-seg, block(UK), box, cooler (UK), hotbox, lockdown, pound, SCU, security housing unit, SHU, special handling unit
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Japanese: ホール(hōru)
→ Korean: 홀(hol)
Sranan Tongo: olo
Translations
Verb
hole (third-person singular simple presentholes, present participleholing, simple past and past participleholed)
(transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
(transitive, by extension) To destroy.
(intransitive) To go into a hole.
(transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
(transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
From Middle High Germanholen, from Old High Germanholon, from Proto-West Germanic*holōn(“to fetch”). Compare Germanholen, Dutchhalen. Related to English haul.
Verb
hole
to fetch
Slovak
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈɦɔle]
Noun
holef
inflection of hoľa:
genitive singular
nominative/accusative plural
Sotho
Noun
holeclass 17 (uncountable)
far away
Yola
Verb
hole
Alternative form of helt
References
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 47