hole

/həʊl//hoʊl/

noun

1
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.
“There’s a hole in my shoe. Her stocking has a hole in it.”
2
(heading) In games.
3
An excavation pit or trench.
4
A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
“I have found a hole in your argument.”
5
A container or receptacle.
“car hole; brain hole”
6
In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
7
A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
8
An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
“Just shut your hole!”
9
(particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
“Are you going out to get your hole tonight?”
10
(with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
11
An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
“His apartment is a hole!”
12
Difficulty, in particular, debt.
“If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”
13
A chordless cycle in a graph.

1
To make holes in (an object or surface).
“Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.”
2
(by extension) To destroy.
“She completely holed the argument.”
3
To go into a hole.
4
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
“Woods holed a standard three foot putt”
5
To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
“to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars”

1
Entire, undivided.
“I ate a whole fish.”
2
Sound, uninjured, healthy.
“He is of whole mind, but the same cannot be said about his physical state.”
3
(of food) From which none of its constituents has been removed.
“whole wheat; whole milk”
4
As yet unworked.