cover vs hole

cover

noun
  • A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position. 

  • The top sheet of a bed. 

  • A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story. 

  • The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc. 

  • A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used. 

  • A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set. 

  • Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view. 

  • An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc. 

  • A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire. 

  • The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above. 

  • An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract. 

  • A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner. 

  • A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song. 

  • The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete. 

  • A cover charge. 

  • In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve. 

  • A lid. 

  • In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for. 

verb
  • To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist). 

  • To defend (mark) a particular player or area. 

  • To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of. 

  • To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal. 

  • To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal. 

  • To provide insurance coverage for. 

  • To traverse or put behind a certain distance. 

  • To act as a replacement. 

  • To deal with or include someone or something. 

  • To be enough money for. 

  • To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself). 

  • To have as an assignment or responsibility. 

  • To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm. 

  • To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect. 

  • To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect. 

  • To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area. 

  • To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses). 

  • To protect or control (a piece or square). 

adj
  • Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions. 

  • Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine. 

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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