crossover vs hole

crossover

noun
  • A pair of switches and a short, diagonal length of track which together connect two parallel tracks and allow passage between them. 

  • A blend of multiple styles of music or multiple film genres, intended to appeal to a wider audience. 

  • A move in sports that involves crossing one hand or foot in front of another, as in ice skating. 

  • The point at which the relative humidity is less than, or equal to, the ambient air temperature. 

  • The means by which the crossing is made. 

  • An SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Pontiac Torrent. 

  • A piece of fiction that borrows elements from two or more fictional universes. 

  • An athlete or swimmer who has competed in more than one of open water swimming, pool swimming, triathlon, and endurance sports. 

  • A place where one thing crosses over another. 

  • The result of the exchange of genetic material during meiosis. 

  • A crossover dribble. 

adj
  • Configured so that the transmit signals at one end are connected to the receive signals at the other. 

hole

noun
  • A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other. 

  • An undesirable place to live or visit. 

  • An excavation pit or trench. 

  • 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. 

  • A container or receptacle. 

  • Difficulty, in particular, debt. 

  • In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle. 

  • The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman. 

  • Sex, or a sex partner. 

  • A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit. 

  • Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment. 

  • The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes. 

  • 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. 

  • A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity. 

  • A chordless cycle in a graph. 

  • A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn. 

  • 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. 

  • In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox. 

  • An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth. 

verb
  • To go into a hole. 

  • To make holes in (an object or surface). 

  • To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in. 

  • To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball. 

  • To destroy. 

How often have the words crossover and hole occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )