Word Meanings - HOLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Whole. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HOLE)

• Corner
• Cavity
• hole
• nook
• recess
• retreat
• Opening
• Aperture
• gap
• opportunity
• space
• commencement
• initiation
• start
• inauguration
• fissure
• chink
• beginning
• Orifice
• perforation
• mouth
• opening
• bung
• bunghole

Related words: (words related to HOLE)

• RECESS
  A sinus. (more info) 1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality. South. My recess hath given them confidence that I may be
• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• FISSURE
  A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures , the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole
• RECESSED
  1. Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall. 2. Withdrawn; secluded. "Comfortably recessed from curious impertinents." Miss Edgeworth. Recessed arch , one of a series of arches constructed one within another so as to correspond
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• APERTURE
  The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture. Note: The aperture of microscopes is often expressed in degrees, called also the angular aperture,
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• RECESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. Recessional hymn, a hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.
• RECESSION
  The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand. South. Mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice. Jer. Taylor.
• MOUTHFUL
  1. As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time. 2. Hence, a small quantity.
• CHINK
  A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay.
• STARTISH
  Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.
• INAUGURATION
  1. The act of inuagurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies. At his regal inauguration, his old father resigned the kingdom to him. Sir T. Browne. 2. The formal beginning or initiation of any movement,
• OPEN
  1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures
• OPEN-MOUTHED
  Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
• INITIATION
  1. The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced; as, initiation into a society, into business, literature, etc. "The initiation of coursers of events." Pope. 2. The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
• LOUD-MOUTHED
  Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
• PRECESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.
• THREE-CORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem. (more info) 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• REDMOUTH
  Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.
• SPLAYMOUTH
  A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
• FLAP-MOUTHED
  Having broad, hangling lips. Shak.
• HOT-MOUTHED
  Headstrong. That hot-mouthed beast that bears against the curb. Dryden.