Shallow vs Hole - What's the difference?
shallow | hole |
Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
Extending not far downward.
Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
Lacking interest or substance.
Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
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(obsolete) Not deep in tone.
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(tennis) Not far forward, close to the net
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A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
* Francis Bacon
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A fish, the rudd.
To make or become less deep
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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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*: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)
As an adjective shallow
is having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.As a noun shallow
is a shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.As a verb shallow
is to make or become less deep.As a proper noun hole is
a municipality in buskerud, norway.shallow
English
Adjective
(er)- This crater is relatively shallow .
- Saute the onions in a shallow pan.
- The water is shallow here.
- It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.
- The acting is good, but the characters are shallow .
- shallow learning
- The king was neither so shallow , nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king.
- the sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring
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Antonyms
* deepNoun
(en noun)- The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow .
- A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel.
- dashed on the shallows of the moving sand
Usage notes
* Usually used in the plural form.See also
* shoal * sandbar * sandbankVerb
(en verb)citation
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*hole
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(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