Hole vs Put - What's the difference?
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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.
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*(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
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*:The blind walls were full of chinks and holes .
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*: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.
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(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.
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#(lb) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
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#(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
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*2011 , - (We Are Young)
*:But between the drinks and subtle things / The holes in my apologies, you know /
(lb) A container or receptacle.
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(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.
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(lb) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
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To make holes in (an object or surface).
(by extension) To destroy.
To go or get into a hole.
To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
(hele)
To place something somewhere.
* , chapter=8
, title= * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
(finance) To exercise a put option.
To express something in a certain manner.
* Hare
(athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport.
To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
* (John Dryden)
To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
To attach or attribute; to assign.
(obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
* Wyclif Bible, John xv. 13
To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
* Berkeley
* Milton
(obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
* Jonathan Swift
* Sir Walter Scott
* Milton
(mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
(business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
(finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
* Johnson's Cyc.
The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
* L'Estrange
An old card game.
(obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
* Bramston
* F. Harrison
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 244:
As a proper noun hole
is a municipality in buskerud, norway.As an acronym put is
(software|testing).As an initialism put is
(electronics).hole
English
(wikipedia hole)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* See also * (solitary confinement) administrative segregation, AdSeg, block (UK), cooler (UK), hotbox, lockdown, pound, SCU, security housing unit, SHU, special handling unitDerived 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 holeVerb
(hol)- (Ben Jonson)
- to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars
Derived terms
* holeable * holer * hole upAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----put
English
(wikipedia put)Etymology 1
From (etyl) putten, puten, poten, from (etyl) .Verb
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citation, passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}
- All this is ingeniously and ably put .
- His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.
- to put a wrong construction on an act or expression
- No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.
- to put''' a question; to '''put a case
- Put' the perception and you ' put the mind.
- These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin.
- These wretches put us upon all mischief.
- Put me not to use the carnal weapon in my own defence.
- Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge.
- (Raymond)
Derived terms
* put about * put across * put aside * put away * put back * put by * put down * put end * put forth * put forward * put in * put in place * put in practice * put into * put off * put on * put on airs * put on a pedestal * put one over * put one's cards on the table * put one's house in order * put one's money where one's mouth is * put one's name in the hat * put out * put out feelers * put over * put paid to * put someone in mind of * put through * put to * put together * put to rest * put two and two together * put under * put up * put up with * put upon * put with * put wise * put words in someone's mouth * putable * puttable * input * outputSee also
puttenNoun
(en noun)- He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.
- A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.
- the put of a ball
- The stag's was a forc'd put , and a chance rather than a choice.
- (Young)
See also
* (Stock option) * call * optionEtymology 2
Origin unknown. Perhaps related to (etyl) pwt.Noun
(en noun)- Queer country puts extol Queen Bess's reign.
- What droll puts the citizens seem in it all.
- The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.