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hole
  • n  an opening into or through something
  • n  an opening deliberately made in or through something
  • n  one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
    he played 18 holes
  • n  an unoccupied space
  • n  a depression hollowed out of solid matter
  • n  a fault
    he shot holes in my argument
  • n  informal terms for a difficult situation
  • n  informal terms for the mouth
  • v  hit the ball into the hole
  • v  make holes in
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hole-in-the-wall
  • n  a small unpretentious out-of-the-way place
    his office was a hole-in-the-wall
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hole card
  • n  any assets that are concealed until they can be used advantageously
  • n  (poker) a playing card dealt face down and not revealed until the showdown
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holibut
  • n  marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes
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holiday
  • n  leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
    we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico
  • n  a day on which work is suspended by law or custom
    no mail is delivered on federal holidays
    it's a good thing that New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover
  • v  spend or take a vacation
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holism
  • n  the theory that the parts of any whole cannot exist and cannot be understood except in their relation to the whole
    holism holds that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
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holistic medicine
  • n  medical care of the whole person considered as subject to personal and social as well as organic factors
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holistic theory
  • n  the theory that the parts of any whole cannot exist and cannot be understood except in their relation to the whole
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holland
  • n  a constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; half the country lies below sea level
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