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Hole can be a verb or a noun.

hole used as a verb:

  1. To make holes in (an object or surface).
    "Shrapnel holed the ship's hull."
  2. To destroy.
    "She completely holed the argument."

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

hole used as a noun:

  1. A hollow spot in a surface.
    "Get some popcorn out of that popcorn bucket hole."
  2. An opening in a solid.
    "There’s a hole in my bucket."
  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. An excavation pit or trench.
  6. A weakness, a flaw
    "I have found a hole in your argument."
  7. A container or receptacle.
    "car hole; brain hole"
  8. In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
  9. A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
  10. An orifice, in particular the anus.
  11. A high-security prison cell, often used as punishment.
  12. An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel
    "His apartment is a hole!"
  13. 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."

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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What type of word is hole?

As detailed above, 'hole' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
  2. Verb usage: She completely holed the argument.
  3. Noun usage: Get some popcorn out of that popcorn bucket hole.
  4. Noun usage: There’s a hole in my bucket.
  5. Noun usage: I played 18 holes yesterday. The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.
  6. Noun usage: I have found a hole in your argument.
  7. Noun usage: car hole; brain hole
  8. Noun usage: His apartment is a hole!
  9. Noun usage: The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of hole are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of hole, and guess at its most common usage.

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The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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