hole

En español: hoyo, pozo, buraco, huraco

1. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure. · I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg. I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.
2. An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent. · There’s a hole in my shoe. Her stocking has a hole in it.
3. 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.
4. The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes. · I played 18 holes yesterday. The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.
5. The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman. · The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.
6. A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
7. 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.
8. In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.

Plural holes