hole vs pile

hole

verb
  • To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in. 

  • To go into a hole. 

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

  • 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. 

pile

verb
  • To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate 

  • To add something to a great number. 

  • (of vehicles) To create a hold-up. 

  • To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other. 

  • To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles. 

  • To give a pile to; to make shaggy. 

  • To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. 

noun
  • A large building, or mass of buildings. 

  • One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost. 

  • The head of an arrow or spear. 

  • A list or league 

  • A mass formed in layers. 

  • A large amount of money. 

  • A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot. 

  • A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground. 

  • A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc. 

  • A mass of things heaped together; a heap. 

  • Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.) 

  • An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor. 

  • A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile. 

  • The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth. 

  • A hemorrhoid. 

  • A funeral pile; a pyre. 

  • A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process. 

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