Hole vs. Orifice

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

Orificenoun

A mouth or aperture, such as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening.

Orificenoun

A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound.

Orificenoun

an aperture or hole opening into a bodily cavity;