Hole vs Spirit - What's the difference?

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As a proper noun hole

is a municipality in buskerud, norway.

As a noun spirit is

spirit (alcohol).

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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spirit

English

Noun

(en noun)

The undying essence of a human; the soul.

* , chapter=7

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit .}}

* 1967 , MacCormack, Woman Times Seven

a triumph of the spirit over the flesh.

A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.

A wandering spirit haunts the island.

* John Locke

Whilst young, preserve his tender mind from all impressions of spirits and goblins in the dark.

Enthusiasm.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Phil Dawkes, work=BBC Sport

, title= Sunderland 2-2 West Brom , passage=The result may not quite give the Wearsiders a sweet ending to what has been a sour week, following allegations of sexual assault and drug possession against defender Titus Bramble, but it does at least demonstrate that their spirit remains strong in the face of adversity.}}

The manner or style of something.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or

* Alexander Pope

A perfect judge will read each work of wit / With the same spirit that its author writ.

(usually, in the plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.

Energy; ardour.

* Fuller

"Write it then, quickly," replied Bede; and summoning all his spirits together, like the last blaze of a candle going out, he indited it, and expired.

One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.

a ruling spirit'''; a schismatic '''spirit

* Dryden

Such spirits as he desired to please, such would I choose for my judges.

Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in the plural.

to be cheerful, or in good spirits'''; to be down-hearted, or in bad '''spirits

* South

God has made a spirit' of building succeed a ' spirit of pulling down.

(obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.

* Spenser

For, else he sure had left not one alive, / But all, in his Revenge, of Spirit would deprive.

* Spenser

The mild air, with season moderate, / Gently attempered, and disposed so well, / That still it breathed forth sweet spirit .

(obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h ; also, a mark denoting aspiration.

* Ben Jonson

Be it a letter or spirit , we have great use for it.

Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.

the spirit of an enterprise, or of a document

(alchemy, obsolete) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).

* Chaucer

the four spirits and the bodies seven

(dyeing) stannic chloride

Derived terms

(Derived terms) * community spirit * free spirit * Holy Spirit * in good spirits * in spirit (adverb) * in the spirit it was meant (idiom) * kindred spirit * methlyated spirit * moving spirit * party spirit * petroleum spirit * poor in spirit * proof spirit * pyroacetic spirit * rectified spirit * shad-spirit * spiritdom * spirited * spiriten * spirit-filled * spiritful * spirithood * spiritish * spiritless * spiritlike * spiritling * spiritly * spiritness * spiritous * spiritship * spiritsome * spiritual * spiritually * spirituality * spirit away (verb) * spirit gum * spirit lamp * spirit level * spirit off * spirit of hartshorn * spirit of salt * spirit of the law * spirit of turpentine * spirit of vitriol * spirit of wine * spirit rapper/spirit rapping * spirit stove * spirit world * spirit writing * surgical spirit * team spirit * that's the spirit * the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak * white spirit * wood spirit * zombie spirit (spirit)

Verb

(en verb)

To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.

* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 8, author=Dave Kehr, title=Buñuel at His Wildest, in Circulation Again, work=New York Times citation

, passage=God does not make an appearance, but the Devil (Ms. Pinal) emphatically does: first in the guise of a schoolgirl who tries to lure Simon down with the sight of her shapely legs; then as a bearded but blatantly female Jesus carrying a lamb; and finally as a stylishly coiffed woman who succeeds in spiriting Simon off, by means of a jet, to a Manhattan discotheque — Buñuel’s persuasive idea of hell.}}

* Willis

I felt as if I had been spirited into some castle of antiquity.

To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up .

Civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men.

* Jonathan Swift

Many officers and private men spirit up and assist those obstinate people to continue in their rebellion.

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