hollow vs wormhole

hollow

verb
  • to make a hole in something; to excavate 

  • To call or urge by shouting; to hollo. 

adv
  • Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow. 

noun
  • A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial. 

  • A sunken area. 

  • A small valley between mountains. 

  • A feeling of emptiness. 

adj
  • Concave; gaunt; sunken. 

  • Insincere, devoid of validity; specious. 

  • Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched. 

  • Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless. 

  • Pertaining to hollow body position 

  • Having an empty space or cavity inside. 

wormhole

verb
  • To make porous or permeable through the formation of small holes or tunnels. 

noun
  • A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to substitute different functionality. 

  • A hole burrowed by a worm. 

  • A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel. 

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