<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.</li><li>Synonyms: concavity, hollow, pit.</li><li>a hollow place in a solid body or mass; a cavity: a hole in the ground.</li><li>Synonyms: concavity, hollow, pit.</li><li>the excavated habitation of an animal; burrow.</li><li>Synonyms: retreat, lair, cave, den.</li><li>a small, dingy, or shabby place: I couldn't live in a hole like that.</li><li>Synonyms: shack, hovel.</li><li>a place of solitary confinement; dungeon.</li><li>an embarrassing position or predicament: to find oneself in a hole.</li><li>a cove or small harbor.</li><li>a fault or flaw: They found serious holes in his reasoning.</li><li>a deep, still place in a stream: a swimming hole.</li><li>Sports: a small cavity, into which a marble, ball, or the like is to be played.</li><li>a score made by so playing.</li><li>Golf: the circular opening in a green into which the ball is to be played.</li><li>a part of a golf course from a tee to the hole corresponding to it, including fairway, rough, and hazards.</li><li>the number of strokes taken to hit the ball from a tee into the hole corresponding to it.</li><li>Informal: opening; slot: The radio program was scheduled for the p.m. hole.</li><li>We need an experienced person to fill a hole in our accounting department.</li><li>Metalworking: (in wire drawing) one reduction of a section.</li><li>Electronics: a mobile vacancy in the electronic structure of a semiconductor that acts as a positive charge carrier and has equivalent mass.</li><li>Aeronautics: an air pocket that causes a plane or other aircraft to drop suddenly.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong> (used with object)</p><ul><li>holed, hol·ing: to make a hole or holes in.</li><li>to put or drive into a hole.</li><li>Golf: to hit the ball into (a hole).</li><li>to bore (a tunnel, passage, etc.).</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong> (used without object)</p><ul><li>holed, hol·ing: to make a hole or holes.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong> Golf</p><ul><li>to strike the ball into a hole: He holed out in five, one over par.</li><li>to go into a hole; retire for the winter, as a hibernating animal.</li><li>to hide, as from pursuers, the police, etc.: The police think the bank robbers are holed up in Chicago.</li></ul>