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Meanings of hole in English
Formed when water pours over the top of a submerged object, or underwater ledges, causing the surface water to flow back upstream toward the object.
Synonyms
Examples for "trap"
Examples for "trap"
1
The Roman opened the trap-door in the ground in order to descend.
2
Conclusions: Results strongly encourage the use of BG-trap for collecting host-seeking An.
3
So let us also use him to help us set our trap.
4
They often booby trap areas under their control before leaving, complicating return.
5
He closed and bolted the trap-door in the floor of the tower.
1
Side brushes theoretically help bring debris closer into the vacuum's hungry maw.
2
So much for the measure of the maw of the circulating library.
3
It was bad enough seeing the open maw for the first time.
4
It had been swallowed up in China's cavernous maw, that was all.
5
The grinding of stone announced the jackal's maw grating open once more.
1
The pug caught sight of his pyjama legs and began to yap.
2
Toby started barking, not his usual annoying yap but proper furious barks.
3
I keep it nice because if I didn't, the neighbors would yap.
4
He certainly behaved like a yap then, if you get my meaning.
5
Nothin' to talk about here much more excitin' than a coyote's yap.
1
As it happens, we're still looking at Jagger's gob 50 years on.
2
You were looking at at a pretty gob stopping endurance event, right?
3
He sprang from concealment, almost embracing the young gob in his delight.
4
It showed the utter unselfishness of the American doughboy, gob, and leatherneck.
5
There it was, simple and painful as a smack in the gob.
1
And he stuffed the rest down his cakehole quick smart.
2
Lolz, shizzle and cakehole are among 6,500 new words added to the existing quarter of a million in the latest Collins Scrabble word list.
Usage of hole in English
1
Note the entrance; a vertical hole in the snow in the foreground
2
Not a break in the ceiling; not a hole in the floor.
3
At the bottom cut a hole in the edge, about 4 in.
4
In the country the after-birth can be buried in a deep hole.
5
I'll insult him; drill a hole in him; my honour requires it.
6
The bow-string holding the stick made it whirl in the hole beneath.
7
The rest he folded and placed in the hole under the money.
8
Through the hole I saw the oil-lamp shining in the outer room.
9
Then the gaze of Eradicate traveled to the hole in the roof.
10
Egypt's black-hole economy is potentially the kingdom's most expensive foreign policy commitment.
11
Then all the mice came scampering from the hole in the wall.
12
I groped in the direction of the sounds, feeling for the hole.
13
The hole slanted downward, and the bullet was embedded in the porch.
14
A coke fire can be made in a hole in the ground.
15
He observed a little hole rusted in the running-board of the motor.
16
He looked again at the hole in the ground and swore painedly.
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Hole through the time
Hole across language varieties
Canada
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
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