Hole vs Bone - What's the difference?

As proper nouns the difference between hole and bone

is that hole is a municipality in buskerud, norway while bone is (historical) a city in eastern algeria, now known as annaba.

hole

English

(wikipedia hole)

Noun

(en noun)

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.

*(Bible), 2 (w) xii.9:

*:The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:the holes where eyes should be

* (1809-1892)

*:The blind walls were full of chinks and holes .

*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

#An opening in a solid.

(lb) In games.

#(lb) 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.

#(lb) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.

#(lb) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.

#(lb) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.

#(lb) 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.

An excavation pit or trench.

(lb) A weakness, a flaw

*2011 , - (We Are Young)

*:But between the drinks and subtle things / The holes in my apologies, you know /

(lb) A container or receptacle.

(lb) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.

(lb) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.

(lb) An orifice, in particular the anus.

Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.

(lb) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.

(lb) Difficulty, in particular, debt.

Synonyms

* See also * (solitary confinement) administrative segregation, AdSeg, block (UK), cooler (UK), hotbox, lockdown, pound, SCU, security housing unit, SHU, special handling unit

Derived terms

* ace in the hole * arsehole, asshole * black hole * bolthole * bullet hole * burn a hole in one's pocket * button hole * cakehole * countersunk hole * cubby hole * donut hole * dry hole * electron hole * fox-hole, fox hole, foxhole * glory hole * gnamma hole {{rel-mid3} * gunk-hole * hellhole * hole in one * hole-in-the-wall * hole punch * hole state * holey * in the hole * keyhole * know one's ass from a hole in the ground * loophole * man-hole, manhole * mouse-hole, mousehole * nineteenth hole * pesthole * pigeonhole * pilot hole * poophole * pothole * pritchel hole * rathole * sink hole * sound hole * toad-in-the-hole * top-hole * touch hole * watering hole * white hole * wonky hole

Verb

(hol)

To make holes in (an object or surface).

(by extension) To destroy.

To go or get into a hole.

(Ben Jonson)

To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars

To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.

(hele)

Derived terms

* holeable * holer * hole up

Anagrams

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bone

English

(wikipedia bone)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l), (l) (dialectal)

Noun

(uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

* {{quote-book, year= a1420

, year_published= 1894 , author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056 , by= (Lanfranc of Milan) , title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63 , original= , chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone , section= , isbn= 1163911380 , edition= , publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co , location= London , editor= Robert von Fleischhacker , volume= , page= 63 , passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.}}

(countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

(figurative) The framework of anything.

An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

(US, informal) A dollar.

(slang) An erect penis; a boner.

(slang) Dominoes or dice.

(slang) .

Synonyms

* (rigid parts of a corset) rib, stay

Adjective

(-)

Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

Verb

(bon)

To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

* 1949 , (Kenneth Lewis Roberts), I Wanted to Write , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=upsEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KyP_TrXtI6PsmAWp8MzvCw&redir_esc=y page 44],

One of the fish stalls specialized in boning' shad, and he who has never eaten a ' boned shad baked twenty minutes on a hot oak plank has been deprived of the most delicious morsel that the ocean yields.

* 1977 , Prosper Montagné, Charlotte Snyder Turgeon, The New Larousse Gastronomique , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rqQRAQAAMAAJ&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wRb_Tuv2O-XMmAXioqiIAg&redir_esc=y page 73],

The ballottine is made of a piece of meat, fowl, game or fish which is boned', stuffed, and rolled into the shape of a bundle. The term ballottine should strictly apply only to meat, ' boned and rolled, but not stuffed.

* 2009 , Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, A History of Food , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=QmevzbQ0AsIC&pg=PA379&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0w7_Toz1FYyUmQX25YSjAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 379],

Then it is boned ; keeping the bone in during cooking improves the flavour and enriches the meat with calcium.

* 2011 , Aliza Green, Steve Legato, The Fishmonger's Apprentice , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hDe3j9hIgw0C&pg=PT38&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1_X-Tv-rDO_zmAXHqsG1Ag&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 38],

Other fish suited to boning through the back include small bluefish, Arctic char, steelhead salmon, salmon, small wild striped bass, hybrid striped bass, Whitefish, drum, trout, and sea trout.

To fertilize with bone.

* 1859 July 9, (The Economist) , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3tcjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA758&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HBr_Tq7KMaXymAXC4dCYAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 758],

He cites an instance of land heavily boned 70 years ago as “still markedly luxuriant beyond any other grass land in the same district.”

To put whalebone into.

to bone stays

(Ash)

(civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

boning rod

(vulgar, slang, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

So, did you bone her?

(Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

* 1962 , Arthur Upfield, The Will of the Tribe , Collier Books, page 48.

"You don't know!", Bony echoed. "You can tell me who boned me fifteen years ago on the other side of the world, and you can't tell me who killed the white-fella in the Crater".

To study.

bone up

* 1896 , Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Chums

"I know it. You do not study." "What's the use of boning all the time! I wasn't cut out for it."

To polish boots to a shiny finish.

* F. van Zyl, [http://web.archive.org/20040622112824/uk.geocities.com/sadf_history1/ferdivz.html SADF National Service (1979-1980) ]

"...the permanent boning (excessive polishing) of boots by recruits"

Synonyms

* (remove the bone from) debone * bury the bone, bonk (British), do, fuck, screw, shag (British)

Derived terms

* auditory bone * bare bones * bone ash * bone-cruncher * bone-crunching * bone marrow * bone meal * bone of contention * bone spavin * bone structure * bone turquoise * bone up * boned * bone-dry * bonefish * bonehead * boneless * boner * boney * bonesetter * boneshaker * boneyard * bonfire * boning rod * bony * breastbone * breed in the bone * cannon bone * capitate bone * close to the bone * coffin bone * collarbone * condyle * crazy bone * cuboid bone * cuneiform bone * dembones * debone * dog bone * ethmoid bone * feel in one's bones * fishbone * frontal bone * funny bone * greenstick fracture * hamate bone * hamulus * have a bone in one's leg * have a bone in one's throat * have a bone to pick * heel bone * hipbone * hyoid bone * innominate bone * intermediate cuneiform bone * jawbone * keep one's bone green * lacrimal bone * lamella * lateral cuneiform bone * long bone * lucky-bone * lunate bone * make no bones about * mastoid bone * medial cuneiform bone * membrane bone * nasal bone * navicular bone * near the bone * not make old bones * occipital bone * otic bone * palatine bone * parietal bone * pisiform bone * pull bone * pulley bone * rag-and-bone man * ringbone * scaphoid bone * shinbone * skin and bones * sphenoid bone * splint bone * stirrup bone * T-bone steak * temporal bone * throw a bone to * to the bone * trapezoid bone * triquetral bone * vomer bone * wishbone * work one's fingers to the bone * zygomatic bone

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Etymology 2

Origin unknown; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.

Verb

(bon)

(slang) To apprehend, steal.

* 1839 , (Charles Dickens), (Nicholas Nickleby)'', in ''Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art , Volume XXXVII, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fOQXAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA127&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2B3_TtvrC4f_mAXim5XJAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 127],

“Did I?” said Squeers, “Well it was rather a startling thing for a stranger to come and recommend himself by saying that he knew all about you, and what your name was, and why you were living so quiet here, and what you had boned', and who you had ' boned it from.”

* 1915 , William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay ,

as long as you and I live I take it for granted that you will not suspect me of boning them. But to guard against casualties hereafter, I have asked Nicolay to write you a line saying that I have never had in my possession or custody any of the papers which you entrusted to him.

* 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , 2006, Canongate, p.802,

Therefore she wants to take results that belong to other people: she wants to bone everybody else's loaf.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) bornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, from borgne one-eyed.

Verb

(bon)

(carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

(Knight)

* W. M. Buchanan

Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges.

Anagrams

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