Hole vs. Trench

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

Trenchnoun

A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.

Trenchnoun

(military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.

Trenchnoun

(archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.

Trenchnoun

(informal) A trench coat.

Trenchverb

}} To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.

Trenchverb

To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.

Trenchverb

(archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.

Trenchverb

To have direction; to aim or tend.

Trenchverb

To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.

Trenchverb

To cut furrows or ditches in.

Trenchverb

To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.

Trenchverb

To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

Trenchverb

To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.

Trenchverb

To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.

Trenchverb

To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.

Trenchverb

To encroach; to intrench.

Trenchverb

To have direction; to aim or tend.

Trenchnoun

A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.

Trenchnoun

An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.

Trenchnoun

An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.

Trenchnoun

a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth

Trenchnoun

a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

Trenchnoun

any long ditch cut in the ground

Trenchverb

impinge or infringe upon;

Trenchverb

fortify by surrounding with trenches;

Trenchverb

cut or carve deeply into;

Trenchverb

set, plant, or bury in a trench;

Trenchverb

cut a trench in, as for drainage;

Trenchverb

dig a trench or trenches;

Trenchnoun

a long, narrow ditch

Trenchnoun

a long, narrow ditch dug by troops to provide a place of shelter from enemy fire.

Trenchnoun

a connected system of long, narrow ditches forming an army's line.

Trenchnoun

the battlefields of northern France and Belgium in the First World War

Trenchnoun

a long, narrow, deep depression in the ocean bed, typically one running parallel to a plate boundary and marking a subduction zone

Trenchnoun

a trench coat.

Trenchverb

dig a trench or trenches in (the ground)

Trenchverb

turn over the earth of (a field or garden) by digging a succession of adjoining ditches.

Trenchverb

border closely on; encroach on

Trench

A trench is a type of excavation or depression in the ground that is generally deeper than it is wide (as opposed to a wider gully, or ditch), and narrow compared with its length (as opposed to a simple hole or pit).In geology, trenches result from erosion by rivers or by geological movement of tectonic plates. In civil engineering, trenches are often created to install underground utilities such as gas, water, power and communication lines.