hole vs peck

hole

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

  • To go into a hole. 

  • 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. 

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. 

peck

verb
  • To do something in small, intermittent pieces. 

  • To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument. 

  • To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird). 

  • To type in general. 

  • To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements. 

  • To type by searching for each key individually. 

  • To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up. 

  • To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot. 

  • To throw. 

  • To kiss briefly. 

noun
  • A great deal; a large or excessive quantity. 

  • An act of striking with a beak. 

  • A small kiss. 

  • One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts. 

  • Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects. 

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