holes
Because it is a word with a single syllable, holes is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofholes
- 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.
Example: "There’s a hole in my shoe. Her stocking has a hole in it."
- (heading) In games.
- An excavation pit or trench.
- A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
Example: "I have found a hole in your argument."
- A container or receptacle.
Example: "car hole; brain hole"
- In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
Example: "Just shut your hole!"
- (particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
Example: "Are you going out to get your hole tonight?"
- (with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
Synonyms: box
- An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
Example: "His apartment is a hole!"
- Difficulty, in particular, debt.
Example: "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."
- A chordless cycle in a graph.
- To make holes in (an object or surface).
Example: "Shrapnel holed the ship's hull."
- (by extension) To destroy.
Example: "She completely holed the argument."
- To go into a hole.
- To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
Example: "Woods holed a standard three foot putt"
- To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
Example: "to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars"
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