Opening vs. Hole
Openingverb
present participle of open
Openingnoun
An act or instance of making or becoming open.
Openingnoun
Something that is open.
Openingnoun
An act or instance of beginning.
Openingnoun
Something that is a beginning.
Openingnoun
The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
Openingnoun
The initial period a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening.
Openingnoun
The first few measures of a musical composition.
Openingnoun
(chess) The first few moves in a game of chess.
Openingnoun
A vacant position, especially in an array.
Openingnoun
A time available in a schedule.
Openingnoun
An unoccupied employment position.
Openingnoun
An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
Openingnoun
(math) In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.
Openingadjective
(cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing a batsman who opens the innings or a bowler who opens the attack
Openingnoun
The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech.
Openingnoun
A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole.
Openingnoun
An opportunity; as, an opening for business.
Openingnoun
A vacant place; a job which does not have a current occupant; as, they are now interviewing candidates for the two openings in the department.
Openingnoun
A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; a clearing; as, oak openings.
Openingnoun
an open or empty space in or between things;
Openingnoun
a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise
Openingnoun
becoming open or being made open;
Openingnoun
the first performance (as of a theatrical production);
Openingnoun
the act of opening something;
Openingnoun
opportunity especially for employment or promotion;
Openingnoun
the initial part of the introduction;
Openingnoun
a possible alternative;
Openingnoun
an aperture or hole opening into a bodily cavity;
Openingnoun
a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made;
Openingnoun
an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
Openingnoun
the first of a series of actions;
Openingadjective
first or beginning;
Openingnoun
a space or gap that allows passage or access
Openingnoun
a beginning; an initial part
Openingnoun
a ceremony or celebratory gathering at which a building, show, etc. is declared to be open
Openingnoun
a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game.
Openingnoun
a counsel's preliminary statement of a case in a law court.
Openingnoun
an opportunity to achieve something
Openingnoun
an available job
Openingadjective
coming at the beginning of something; initial
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
