Gap vs. Hole
Gapnoun
An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
Gapnoun
An opening allowing passage or entrance.
Gapnoun
An opening that implies a breach or defect.
Gapnoun
A vacant space or time.
Gapnoun
A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
Gapnoun
A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
Gapnoun
A mountain or hill pass.
Gapnoun
(Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
Gapnoun
(baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
Gapnoun
The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
Gapnoun
(AU) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
Gapnoun
(genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
Gapverb
(transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
Gapverb
(transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
Gapverb
(transitive) To check the size of a gap.
Gapnoun
An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.
Gapnoun
The vertical distance between two superposed surfaces, esp. in a biplane.
Gapverb
To notch, as a sword or knife.
Gapverb
To make an opening in; to breach.
Gapnoun
a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures;
Gapnoun
an open or empty space in or between things;
Gapnoun
a narrow opening;
Gapnoun
a pass between mountain peaks
Gapnoun
an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity;
Gapverb
make an opening or gap in
Holenoun
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
Holenoun
An opening in a solid.
Holenoun
(heading) In games.
Holenoun
(golf) 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.
Holenoun
(golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
Holenoun
(baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
Holenoun
(chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
Holenoun
(stud poker) 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.
Holenoun
In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
Holenoun
An excavation pit or trench.
Holenoun
(figuratively) A weakness, a flaw
Holenoun
(informal) A container or receptacle.
Holenoun
(physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
Holenoun
(computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
Holenoun
(slang anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
Holenoun
Sex, or a sex partner.
Holenoun
Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
Holenoun
(slang) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
Holenoun
(figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
Holenoun
(graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
Holeverb
(transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
Holeverb
To destroy.
Holeverb
(intransitive) To go into a hole.
Holeverb
(transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
Holeverb
(transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
Holeadjective
Whole.
Holenoun
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
Holenoun
An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation.
Holenoun
A small cavity used in some games, usually one into which a marble or ball is to be played or driven; hence, a score made by playing a marble or ball into such a hole, as in golf.
Holeverb
To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
Holeverb
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.
Holeverb
To go or get into a hole.
Holenoun
an opening into or through something
Holenoun
an opening deliberately made in or through something
Holenoun
one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course;
Holenoun
an unoccupied space
Holenoun
a depression hollowed out of solid matter
Holenoun
a fault;
Holenoun
informal terms for a difficult situation;
Holenoun
informal terms for the mouth
Holeverb
hit the ball into the hole
Holeverb
make holes in
