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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hole/#m1)

2) An animal's home underground: a rabbit hole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hole/#m2)

3) In golf: the small hole you hit the ball into, or one part of a golf course. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hole/#m3)

4) A weak part or mistake: a hole in a plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hole/#m4)

5) Informal: an unpleasant place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hole/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hole/#x1)
- There's a hole in my sock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hole/#x2)
- A rabbit popped out of its hole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hole/#x3)
- Watch out for holes in the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hole/#x4)
- The car hit a pothole in the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hole/#x5)
- A black hole pulls in even light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hole/#x6)
- She got a hole-in-one at mini golf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hole/#x7)
- Peep through the keyhole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hole/#x8)
- But the Mouse reached his hole in safety. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hole/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/11/)
- [Recorder players cover the holes with the soft, flat pads of their fingers, because hard fingertips leave gaps that make squeaks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/6/)
- [Polar bears hunt seals by waiting at breathing holes for hours or even days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth/9/)
- [Ringed seals dig snow caves on the ice to hide their pups and keep breathing holes open by scratching the ice with strong claws.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth/11/)
- [An elephant family is led by its oldest female, the matriarch, who remembers water holes, paths and dangers over decades.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hole» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hole/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.