different between hole vs rupture
hole
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h??l/, [h???], [h???]
- Rhymes: -??l
- (US) IPA(key): /ho?l/, [ho??]
- Rhymes: -o?l
- Homophone: whole (depends on accent)
Etymology 1
From Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol, from Proto-Germanic *hul? (“hollow space, cavity”) noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”).
Noun
hole (plural holes)
- 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.
- The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.
- 1840, Alfred Tennyson, Godiva:
- […] her palfrey’s footfall shot
Light horrors thro’ her pulses: the blind walls
Were full of chinks and holes; and overhead
Fantastic gables, crowding, stared: […]
- […] her palfrey’s footfall shot
- An opening in a solid.
- (heading) In games.
- (golf) 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.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (stud poker) 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.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- 2011, Fun - We Are Young
- But between the drinks and subtle things / The holes in my apologies, you know / I’m trying hard to take it back
- 2011, Fun - We Are Young
- (informal) A container or receptacle.
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- (slang, anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
- (Ireland, Scotland, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
- Are you going out to get your hole tonight?
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- Synonym: box
- 2011, Ahmariah Jackson, IAtomic Seven, Locked Up but Not Locked Down
- Disciplinary actions can range from a mere write up to serious time in the hole.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
- (figuratively) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:hole
- (solitary confinement): administrative segregation, ad-seg, block (UK), box, cooler (UK), hotbox, lockdown, pound, SCU, security housing unit, SHU, special handling unit
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (h?ru)
- Sranan Tongo: olo
Translations
Verb
hole (third-person singular simple present holes, present participle holing, simple past and past participle holed)
- (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
- (transitive, by extension) To destroy.
- (intransitive) To go into a hole.
- (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
- 1799, Sporting Magazine (volume 13, page 49)
- If the player holes the red ball, he scores three, and upon holing his adversary's ball, he gains two; and thus it frequently happens, that seven are got upon a single stroke, by caramboling and holing both balls.
- 1799, Sporting Magazine (volume 13, page 49)
- (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
- to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars
Derived terms
- holeable
- holer
- hole out
- hole up
Translations
Etymology 2
Adjective
hole (comparative holer or more hole, superlative holest or most hole)
- Obsolete form of whole.
- 1843, Sir George Webbe Dasent (translator), A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue (originally by Rasmus Christian Rask)
- Such was the arrangement of the alphabet over the hole North.
- 1843, Sir George Webbe Dasent (translator), A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue (originally by Rasmus Christian Rask)
Anagrams
- Hoel, OHLE, helo, ohel, oleh
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??ol?]
Noun
hole
- inflection of h?l:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Verb
hole
- masculine singular present transgressive of holit
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ho?l?/
Verb
hole
- inflection of holen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Hausa
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hó?.lè?/
Verb
h?l? (grade 4)
- to relax, to enjoy oneself
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English h?l
Adjective
hole
- healthy
- safe
- whole, complete, full
Alternative forms
- hol, ol, ole, hoal, hoale, hoel, hoil, hoille, holle, wholle
- hal, hale, halle (Northern)
References
- “h?l(e, adj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Adverb
hole
- wholly
Alternative forms
- hol
References
- “h?l(e, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Noun
hole (plural holes)
- whole, entirety
- health
- remedy, cure
Alternative forms
- hol
References
- “h?l(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Descendants
- English: whole
- Scots: hole, holl
Etymology 2
From Old English hol
Noun
hole (plural holes or holen)
- hole
Alternative forms
- hol, ol, ole, holle, hoil, houl, hul
Descendants
- English: hole
- Scots: hole
References
- “h??l(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
From Old English hulu; see hull for more.
Noun
hole (plural holes)
- hull (outer covering of a fruit or seed)
- hut, shelter
- hull (of a ship)
Alternative forms
- hol, holle, hul, hule, ule, hulle, ulle, hoile, huole
Descendants
- English: hull
- Scots: huil
References
- “hol(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 4
Verb
hole
- past participle of helen (“to cover”)
- Synonym: heled
Alternative forms
- holn
Etymology 5
Adjective
hole
- Alternative form of hol (“hollow”)
Etymology 6
Noun
hole (uncountable)
- Alternative form of oile (“oil”)
Etymology 7
Noun
hole (plural holen)
- Alternative form of oule (“owl”)
Etymology 8
Adjective
hole
- Alternative form of holy (“holy”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse hola
Noun
hole f or m (definite singular hola or holen, indefinite plural holer, definite plural holene)
- alternative form of hule
References
- “hole” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- hòle
Etymology
From Old Norse hola
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²ho?l?/
Noun
hole f (definite singular hola, indefinite plural holer, definite plural holene)
- a cave
- a cavity (anatomy)
- a den
Derived terms
- augehole
References
- “hole” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
From Middle High German holen, from Old High German holon, from Proto-Germanic *hul?n? (“to fetch”). Compare German holen, Dutch halen. Related to English haul.
Verb
hole
- to fetch
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??ole]
Noun
hole f
- genitive singular of ho?a
Sotho
Noun
hole 17 (uncountable)
- far away
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rupture
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French rupture, or its source, Latin rupt?ra (“a breaking, rupture (of a limb or vein)”) and Medieval Latin rupt?ra (“a road, a field, a form of feudal tenure, a tax, etc.”), from the participle stem of rumpere (“to break, burst”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???pt??/
Noun
rupture (countable and uncountable, plural ruptures)
- A burst, split, or break.
- A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
- 1825, Edward Everett, Claims of the United States on Naples and Holland
- He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.
- 1761, The Modern Part of an Universal History
- Thus a war was kindled with Lubec; Denmark took part with the king's enemies, and made use of a frivolous pretence, which demonstrated the inclination of his Danish majesty to come to a rupture.
- 1825, Edward Everett, Claims of the United States on Naples and Holland
- (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
- (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
Translations
Verb
rupture (third-person singular simple present ruptures, present participle rupturing, simple past and past participle ruptured)
- (transitive, intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
- (botany, intransitive) To dehisce irregularly.
Translations
See also
- Rupture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- rupture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- rupture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- rupture at OneLook Dictionary Search
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?yp.ty?/
- Rhymes: -y?
Noun
rupture f (plural ruptures)
- breakup, rupture
Derived terms
- en rupture de ban
Verb
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Latin
Participle
rupt?re
- vocative masculine singular of rupt?rus
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