hole vs split

hole

verb
  • To destroy. 

  • 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. 

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. 

split

verb
  • To be broken; to be dashed to pieces. 

  • To factor into linear factors. 

  • To separate. 

  • To leave. 

  • To vote for candidates of opposite parties. 

  • For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another. 

  • To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line. 

  • To share; to divide. 

  • To burst out laughing. 

  • To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line. 

  • To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord. 

noun
  • A dessert or confection resembling a banana split. 

  • A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle. 

  • The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race. 

  • A recording containing songs by multiple artists. 

  • A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi. 

  • A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn. 

  • A tear resulting from tensile stresses. 

  • A split-finger fastball. 

  • A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment. 

  • A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down. 

  • The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a speedrun. 

  • A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth. 

  • A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position. 

  • One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses. 

  • A split shot or split stroke. 

  • A crack or longitudinal fissure. 

  • A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division. 

adj
  • Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso. 

  • Given in sixteenths rather than eighths. 

  • Divided. 

  • Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others. 

  • Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary. 

  • Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price. 

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