cut vs hole

cut

noun
  • A hidden, secluded, or secure place. 

  • A particular version or edit of a film. 

  • A share or portion of profits. 

  • An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving. 

  • A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point. 

  • A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance. 

  • A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove. 

  • A skein of yarn. 

  • A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit. 

  • An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point. 

  • The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil. 

  • The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups. 

  • The result of cutting. 

  • In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball. 

  • The card obtained by dividing the pack. 

  • The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in. 

  • The act of cutting. 

  • An artificial navigation channel as distinguished from a navigable river. 

  • Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball. 

  • A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc. 

  • A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train. 

  • An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound. 

  • In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators. 

  • A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc. 

  • A slab, especially of meat. 

  • A notch shaved into an eyebrow. 

  • The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards. 

  • That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug. 

  • An unkind act; a cruelty. 

  • A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass. 

  • A haircut. 

  • A decrease. 

intj
  • An instruction to cease recording. 

verb
  • To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined. 

  • To reduce, especially intentionally. 

  • To exhibit (a quality). 

  • To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage. 

  • To wound with a knife. 

  • To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument. 

  • To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing. 

  • To divide a pack of playing cards into two. 

  • To enter a queue in the wrong place. 

  • To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.). 

  • To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it. 

  • To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat. 

  • To perform an incision on, for example with a knife. 

  • To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another. 

  • To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so. 

  • To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat. 

  • To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated. 

  • To stop, disengage, or cease. 

  • To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs. 

  • To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument. 

  • To form or shape by cutting. 

  • To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin. 

  • To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce. 

  • To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time. 

  • To make or negotiate. 

  • To castrate or geld. 

  • To ignore as a social rebuff or snub. 

  • To change direction suddenly. 

  • To perform (a dancing movement etc.). 

  • To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to. 

  • To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug. 

adj
  • Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol. 

  • Reduced. 

  • Having been cut. 

  • Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point. 

  • Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation. 

  • Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles. 

  • Carved into a shape; not raw. 

  • Emotionally hurt. 

hole

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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