An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
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.
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 amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
The height of an arch or a step.
To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
To leave one's bed; to get up.
To attain a higher status.
To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
To have its source (in a particular place).
Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
To develop.
To become erect; to assume an upright position.
To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
To be resurrected.
To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
To slope upward.
To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
To go up; to ascend; to climb.
To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
To come; to offer itself.
To move upwards.
To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
To cause to go up or ascend.