Hollow vs Perforation - What's the difference?
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(of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
(of a sound) Distant]], eerie; echoing, [[reverberate, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
(figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
(figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
A small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations.
* Prior
* Tennyson
A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
(US) A sunken area.
(figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.
* Sir Walter Scott
the act of perforating or the state of being perforated
any opening in a solid object
(medicine) an abnormal opening in an organ, such as a rupture
a series of holes punched through something in order to assist in separating parts
(mathematics) that portion of a surface that remains after an open disk is removed from it
As nouns the difference between hollow and perforation
is that hollow is a small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations while perforation is the act of perforating or the state of being perforated.As an adjective hollow
is (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.As an adverb hollow
is completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.As a verb hollow
is to make a hole in something; to excavate.As an interjection hollow
is alternative form of lang=en.hollow
English
Alternative forms
* hollerEtymology 1
(etyl) holw, holh, from (etyl) . More at cave.Adjective
(er)- a hollow''' tree; a '''hollow sphere
- a hollow moan
- (Dryden)
- a hollow victory
- a hollow promise
- With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.
Derived terms
* hollow legAdverb
(-)Etymology 2
(etyl) holow, earlier holgh, from (etyl) . See above.Noun
(en noun)- Forests grew upon the barren hollows .
- I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood.
- He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.
- the hollow of the hand or of a tree
- a hollow in the pit of one's stomach
Etymology 3
Compare holler.Verb
(en verb)- He has hollowed the hounds.