The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
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.
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.
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.
The first few moves in a game.
The first few measures of a musical composition.
The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
A gap permitting passage through.
The initial period when a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening.
A vacant position, especially in an array.
An unoccupied employment position.
In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.
An act or instance of making or becoming open.
A time available in a schedule.
An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
An act or instance of beginning.
Pertaining to the start or beginning of a series of events.
describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing a batsman who opens the innings or a bowler who opens the attack