OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 1903

hole

/həʊl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
agujero • alcorque • buco • buraco • buso (disused) • cavia • cepa • forambre (disused) • foya • horaco (disused) • hoya • hoyo • hura • huraco • hurera • potro • pozo • socava
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg. I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.
To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks.
abertura • brecha • bufarda • buhedera • forado • foramen • horado • hueco • portillo • roto • tronera
An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.
There’s a hole in my shoe. Her stocking has a hole in it.
hoyo
In games.
The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.
agujero • fallo
A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
chamizo • cochitril • covacha • cuartucho • cuchitril • tabuco • tugurio • zaquizamí • zulo
An undesirable place to live or visit.
His apartment is a hole!
I have often heard people say, "One can't live upon a view," and I have heard some of the most beautiful places called "awful holes," simply because of the monotonous lives led in…
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