different between hole vs space

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)

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.

   • 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: […]
   1. An opening in a solid.

2. (heading) In games.
   1. (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.
   2. (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.

   3. (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.

   4. (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
   5. (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.
   6. In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
3. (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
4. (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

5. (informal) A container or receptacle.

6. (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
7. (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
8. (slang, anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.

9. (Ireland, Scotland, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.

   Are you going out to get your hole tonight?

10. (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.

11. (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.

12. (figuratively) Difficulty, in particular, debt.

13. (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
14. (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)

1. (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).

2. (transitive, by extension) To destroy.

3. (intransitive) To go into a hole.
4. (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.

5. (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)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• Hoel, OHLE, helo, ohel, oleh

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ol?]

Noun

hole

1. inflection of h?l:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Verb

hole

1. masculine singular present transgressive of holit

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ho?l?/

Verb

hole

1. inflection of holen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. 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)

1. to relax, to enjoy oneself

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English h?l

Adjective

hole

1. healthy
2. safe
3. 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

1. wholly

Alternative forms

• hol

References

• “h?l(e, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Noun

hole (plural holes)

1. whole, entirety
2. health
3. 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)

1. 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)

1. hull (outer covering of a fruit or seed)
2. hut, shelter
3. 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

1. past participle of helen (“to cover”)

   Synonym: heled

Alternative forms

• holn

Etymology 5

Adjective

hole

1. Alternative form of hol (“hollow”)

Etymology 6

Noun

hole (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of oile (“oil”)

Etymology 7

Noun

hole (plural holen)

1. Alternative form of oule (“owl”)

Etymology 8

Adjective

hole

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. a cave
2. a cavity (anatomy)
3. 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

1. to fetch

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ole]

Noun

hole f

1. genitive singular of ho?a

Sotho

Noun

hole 17 (uncountable)

1. far away

English

Etymology

From Middle English space, from Anglo-Norman space, variant of espace, espas et al., and Old French spaze, variant of espace, from Latin spatium, from Proto-Indo-European *speh?- 'to stretch, to pull'.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sp?s, IPA^(key): /spe?s/
• Hyphenation: space
• Rhymes: -e?s

Noun

space (countable and uncountable, plural spaces)

1. (heading) Of time.
   1. (now rare, archaic) Free time; leisure, opportunity. [from 14^thc.]
   2. A specific (specified) period of time. [from 14^thc.]
      • 1893, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Giles Corey

        I pray you, sirs, to take some cheers the while I go for a moment's space to my poor afflicted child.

      • 2007, Andy Bull, The Guardian, 20 October:

        The match was lost, though, in the space of just twenty minutes or so.
   3. An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while. [from 15^thc.]
      • 1923, PG Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves

        Even Comrade Butt cast off his gloom for a space and immersed his whole being in scrambled eggs.

2. (heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
   1. Distance between things. [from 14^thc.]
      • 2001, Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 3 November:

        Which means that for every car there was 10 years ago, there are now 40. Which means - and this is my own, not totally scientific, calculation - that the space between cars on the roads in 1991 was roughly 39 car lengths, because today there is no space at all.

   2. Physical extent across two or three dimensions; area, volume (sometimes for or to do something). [from 14^thc.]
      • 2007, Dominic Bradbury, The Guardian, 12 May:

        They also wanted a larger garden and more space for home working.

   3. Physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this. [from 17^thc.]
      • 1656, Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy, II

        Space is the Phantasme of a Thing existing without the Mind simply.

      • 1880, Popular Science, August:

        These are not questions which can be decided by reference to our space intuitions, for our intuitions are confined to Euclidean space, and even there are insufficient, approximative.

      • 2007, Anushka Asthana & David Smith, The Observer, 15 April:

        The early results from Gravity Probe B, one of Nasa's most complicated satellites, confirmed yesterday 'to a precision of better than 1 per cent' the assertion Einstein made 90 years ago - that an object such as the Earth does indeed distort the fabric of space and time.

   4. The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere; outer space. [from 17^thc.]
      • 1901, HG Wells, The First Men in the Moon:

        After all, to go into outer space is not so much worse, if at all, than a polar expedition.

      • 2010, The Guardian, 9 August:

        The human race must colonise space within the next two centuries or it will become extinct, Stephen Hawking warned today.

   5. The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom. [from 20^thc.]
      • 1996, Linda Brodkey, Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only:

        Around the time of my parents' divorce, I learned that reading could also give me space.

      • 2008, Jimmy Treigle, Walking on Water

        "I care about you Billy, whether you believe it or not; but right now I need my space."

3. (heading) A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
   1. A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries. [from 14^thc.]

      • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

      • 2000, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Islam and Gender

        The street door was open, and we entered a narrow space with washing facilities, curtained off from the courtyard.

      • 2012, Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 16 July:

        Converted from vast chambers beneath the old Bankside Power Station which once held a million gallons of oil, the new public areas consist of two large circular spaces for performances and film installations, plus a warren of smaller rooms.

   2. (music) A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines. [from 15^thc.]
      • 1849, John Pyke Hullah, translating Guillaume Louis Bocquillon-Wilhem, Wilhelm's Method of Teaching Singing

        The note next above Sol is La; La, therefore, stands in the 2nd space; Si, on the 3rd line, &c.

      • 1990, Sammy Nzioki, Music Time

        The lines and spaces of the staff are named according to the first seven letters of the alphabet, that is, A B C D E F G.

   3. A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap. [from 16^thc.]
      • 1992, Sam H Ham, Environmental Interpretation

        According to experts, a single line of text should rarely exceed about 50 characters (including letters and all the spaces between words).

      • 2005, Dr BR Kishore, Dynamic Business Letter Writing:

        It should be typed a space below the salutation : Dear Sir, Subject : Replacement of defective items.

   4. (letterpress typography) A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad). [from 17^thc.]
      • 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing., v.2, pp.240–1:

        If it be only a Single Letter or two that drops, he thru?ts the end of his Bodkin between every Letter of that Word, till he comes to a Space: and then perhaps by forcing tho?e Letters closer, he may have room to put in another Space or a Thin Space; which if he cannot do, and he finds the Space ?tand Loo?e in the Form; he with the Point of his Bodkin picks the Space up and bows it a little; which bowing makes the Letters on each ?ide of the Space keep their parallel di?tance; for by its Spring it thru?ts the Letters that were clo?ed with the end of the Bodkin to their adjunct Letters, that needed no clo?ing.

      • 1979, Marshall Lee, Bookmaking, p.110:

        Horizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads. The fractions are called spaces.

      • 2005, Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd ed., p.91:

        Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines.

   5. A gap; an empty place. [from 17^thc.]
      • 2004, Harry M Benshoff (ed.), Queer Cinéma

        Mainstream Hollywood would not cater to the taste for sexual sensation, which left a space for B-movies, including noir.

      • 2009, Barbara L. Lev, From Pink to Green

        A horizontal scar filled the space on her chest where her right breast used to be.

   6. (geometry) A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.
   7. (countable, mathematics) A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space). [from 20^thc.]

   8. (countable, figuratively) A marketplace for goods or services.

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:space.

Synonyms

• (free time): leisure time, spare time
• (specific period of time): duration, span; see also Thesaurus:period
• (undefined period of time): spell, while; see also Thesaurus:uncertain period
• (distance between things): break, gap; see also Thesaurus:interspace
• (intervening contents of a volume): volume
• (space occupied by or intended for a person or thing): room, volume
• (area or volume of sufficient size to accommodate a person or thing): place, spot, volume
• (area beyond the atmosphere of planets that consists of a vacuum): outer space
• (gap between written characters): blank, gap, whitespace (graphic design)
• (metal type): quad, quadrat
• (set of points each uniquely specified by a set of coordinates):
• (personal freedom to think or be oneself):
• (state of mind one is in when daydreaming):
• (generalized construct or set in mathematics):
• (one of the five basic elements in Indian philosophy): ether

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

Punctuation

Verb

space (third-person singular simple present spaces, present participle spacing, simple past and past participle spaced)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To roam, walk, wander.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:

     But she as Fayes are wont, in priuie place / Did spend her dayes, and lov'd in forests wyld to space.

2. (transitive) To set some distance apart.

   Faye had spaced the pots at 8-inch intervals on the windowsill.

   The cities are evenly spaced.

3. To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.

   This paragraph seems badly spaced.

4. (transitive, science fiction) To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.

   The captain spaced the traitors.
5. (intransitive, science fiction) To travel into and through outer space.

Derived terms

• spaced
• spaced-out
• unspace

Translations

Related terms

• espace
• spacious
• spatial

References

• space on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -scape, EAPCs, EPACs, a-spec, aspec, capes, paces, scape

Old French

Noun

space m (oblique plural spaces, nominative singular spaces, nominative plural space)

1. Alternative form of espace