[hohl] 
noun, verb, holed, hol⋅ing.| 1. | an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock. |
| 2. | a hollow place in a solid body or mass; a cavity: a hole in the ground. |
| 3. | the excavated habitation of an animal; burrow. |
| 4. | a small, dingy, or shabby place: I couldn't live in a hole like that. |
| 5. | a place of solitary confinement; dungeon. |
| 6. | an embarrassing position or predicament: to find oneself in a hole. |
| 7. | a cove or small harbor. |
| 8. | a fault or flaw: They found serious holes in his reasoning. |
| 9. | a deep, still place in a stream: a swimming hole. |
| 10. | Sports.
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| 11. | Golf.
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| 12. | Informal. opening; slot: The radio program was scheduled for the p.m. hole. We need an experienced person to fill a hole in our accounting department. |
| 13. | Metalworking. (in wire drawing) one reduction of a section. |
| 14. | Electronics. a mobile vacancy in the electronic structure of a semiconductor that acts as a positive charge carrier and has equivalent mass. |
| 15. | Aeronautics. an air pocket that causes a plane or other aircraft to drop suddenly. |
| 16. | to make a hole or holes in. |
| 17. | to put or drive into a hole. |
| 18. | Golf. to hit the ball into (a hole). |
| 19. | to bore (a tunnel, passage, etc.). |
| 20. | to make a hole or holes. |
| 21. | hole out, Golf. to strike the ball into a hole: He holed out in five, one over par. |
| 22. | hole up,
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| 23. | burn a hole in one's pocket, to urge one to spend money quickly: His inheritance was burning a hole in his pocket. |
| 24. | hole in the wall, a small or confining place, esp. one that is dingy, shabby, or out-of-the-way: Their first shop was a real hole in the wall. |
| 25. | in a or the hole,
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| 26. | make a hole in, to take a large part of: A large bill from the dentist made a hole in her savings. |
| 27. | pick a hole or holes in, to find a fault or flaw in: As soon as I presented my argument, he began to pick holes in it. |
| hole (hōl) Pronunciation Key
A gap, usually the valence band of an insulator or semiconductor, that would normally be filled with one electron. If an electron accelerated by a voltage moves into a gap, it leaves a gap behind it, and in this way the hole itself appears to move through the substance. Even though holes are in fact the absence of a negatively charged particle (an electron), they can be treated theoretically as positively charged particles, whose motion gives rise to electric current. |
