hole

«hole» in Mova's school dictionary: An empty space or opening in something solid: a hole in… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a hole, holes); verb (hole, holes, holed — to make a hole; hole up — to hide)

meaning for a pupil

1) An empty space or opening in something solid: a hole in the ground, a hole in a sock. tree →

2) An animal's home underground: a rabbit hole. tree →

3) In golf: the small hole you hit the ball into, or one part of a golf course. tree →

4) A weak part or mistake: a hole in a plan. tree →

5) Informal: an unpleasant place. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life: holes in clothes, in the road (potholes). In safety: watch out for holes when running in fields; don't climb into deep holes or old wells; cover holes you dig; ice with holes is dangerous. In science: animals live in holes (burrows); the ozone hole; black holes in space. In maths: a hole punch; shapes with holes. Phrases: dig a hole, a hole in, rabbit hole, black hole, pothole, keyhole, hole-in-one, in a hole (in trouble).

examples

• The dog dug a hole in the garden. tree →
• There's a hole in my sock. tree →
• A rabbit popped out of its hole. tree →
• Watch out for holes in the field. tree →
• The car hit a pothole in the road. tree →
• A black hole pulls in even light. tree →
• She got a hole-in-one at mini golf. tree →
• Peep through the keyhole. tree →
• But the Mouse reached his hole in safety. tree →

note

Countable: holes. Homophone: «whole» (all of something) sounds the same: «a hole in the whole cake». The w in «whole» is silent.

In the corpora

• Dentists check teeth every six months to a year to catch small problems, like holes, before they hurt.
• Recorder players cover the holes with the soft, flat pads of their fingers, because hard fingertips leave gaps that make squeaks.
• Polar bears hunt seals by waiting at breathing holes for hours or even days.
• Ringed seals dig snow caves on the ice to hide their pups and keep breathing holes open by scratching the ice with strong claws.
• An elephant family is led by its oldest female, the matriarch, who remembers water holes, paths and dangers over decades.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hole» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.