Hole vs Pole - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between hole and pole

is that hole is to drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball while pole is to induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.

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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pole

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) pole, pal, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.

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(angling) A type of basic fishing rod.

A long fiberglass sports implement used for pole-vaulting.

(slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.

(historical) A unit of length, equal to a perch (¼ chain or 5½ yards).

(auto racing) Pole position.

(analysis) a singularity that behaves like

\frac{1}{z^n}

z = 0

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* (analysis) root, zero

Derived terms

(terms derived from pole) * flagpole * maypole * poleaxe * pole vault

Verb

(pol)

To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.

Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.

To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.

He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.

To furnish with poles for support.

to pole beans or hops

To convey on poles.

to pole hay into a barn

To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) pole, .

Noun

(en noun)

Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.

A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).

(geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.

(electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.

(complex analysis) For a meromorphic function

f(z)

: a point

a

for which

f(z) \rightarrow \infty

z \rightarrow a

The function $f(z) = \frac{1}{z-3}$ has a single pole at $z = 3$ .

(obsolete) The firmament; the sky.

* Milton

shoots against the dusky pole

Antonyms

* (complex analysis) zero

Derived terms

* polar * polarity * dipole * monopole * north pole * south pole * poles apart * polestar, pole star * pole vault

Verb

(pol)

To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.

Anagrams

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