corner vs hole

corner

noun
  • First base or third base. 

  • An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies. 

  • A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook. 

  • A cornerback. 

  • A place where people meet for a particular purpose. 

  • One of the four vertices of the strike zone. 

  • The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout. 

  • The projection into space of an angle in a solid object. 

  • The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point. 

  • An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection. 

  • The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal. 

  • An embarrassing situation; a difficulty. 

  • The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight. 

  • A corner kick. 

  • Denoting a premises that is in a convenient local location, notionally, but not necessarily literally, on the corner of two streets. 

  • A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices. 

verb
  • To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space. 

  • To put (someone) in an awkward situation. 

  • To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price. 

  • To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning. 

  • To supply with corners. 

  • To turn a corner or drive around a curve. 

  • To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment. 

hole

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

  • An undesirable place to live or visit. 

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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