Definizione di hole
parola:
plural, 3rd person singular present
tense holes
, present participle holing
, past tense, past participle holed
1. sostantivo numerabile
A hole is a hollow space in something solid, with an opening on one side.
3. sostantivo numerabile
4. sostantivo numerabile
5. sostantivo numerabile
[usually adjective NOUN]
[informal, disapproval]
6. sostantivo numerabile
7. sostantivo numerabile
8. verbo
If you hole in a game of golf, you hit the ball so that it goes into the hole.
9. verbo [usually passive]
[mainly British]
Blocks of flats have been holed and some shells have fallen within the historic ramparts. [be VERB-ed]
11.
See in a hole
12.
See a hole in one
13.
See pick holes
verbi Phrasal:
See hole up
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Frequenza
hole in British English
sostantivo
1.
an area hollowed out in a solid
2.
an opening made in or through something
10. (on a golf course)
a.
the cup on each of the greens
b.
c.
the score made in striking the ball from the tee into the hole
11. physics
a.
b.
(as modifier)
hole current
c.
a vacancy in the nearly full continuum of quantum states of negative energy of fermions. A hole appears as the antiparticle of the fermion
12. See in holes
13. See in the hole
14. See make a hole in
verbo
15.
to make a hole or holes in (something)
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Parola origine hole
Old English hol; related to Gothic hulundi, German Höhle, Old Norse hylr pool, Latin caulis hollow stem; see hollowFrequenza
hole in American English
sostantivo
3.
verbo transitivo parola:
holed or ˈholing
8.
to make a hole or holes in
9.
to put, hit, or drive into a hole
10.
to create by making a hole
to hole a tunnel through a mountain
Modi di dire:
SYNONYMY NOTE: hole is the general word for an open space in a thing and may suggest a depression in
a surface or an opening from surface to surface [a hole in the ground, a hole in a sock]; hollow basically suggests an empty space within a solid body, whether or not it extends
to the surface, but it may also be applied to a depressed place in a surface [a wooded hollow]; cavity, the Latin-derived equivalent of , hollow, has special application in formal and scientific usage [the thoracic cavity]; an excavation is a hollow made in or through ground by digging [the excavations at Pompeii]Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Parola origine hole
ME < OE hol, orig. neut. of adj. holh, hollow, akin to Ger hohl < IE base *kaul-, *kul-, hollow, hollow stalk > L caulis, Gr kaulos, stalk
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hole
Inglese britannico: hole
/həʊl/ NOUN
A hole is an opening or hollow space in something.
The builders cut holes into the soft stone.
- Inglese americano: hole /ˈhoʊl/
- Arabo: حُفْرَة
- Portoghese brasiliano: buraco
- Cinese: 洞
- Croato: rupa
- Ceco: díra
- Danese: hul
- Olandese: gat
- Spagnolo europeo: agujero
- Finlandese: reikä
- Francese: trou
- Tedesco: Loch
- Greco: τρύπα
- Italiano: buco
- Giapponese: 穴
- Coreano: 구멍
- Norvegese: hull
- Polacco: dziura
- Portoghese Europeo: buraco
- Romeno: gaură
- Russo: дыра
- Spagnolo: agujero
- Svedese: hål
- Thailandese: รู
- Turco: delik çorap, duvar vb
- Ucraino: діра
- Vietnamita: lỗ hổng
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