Hole vs. Hall — What's the Difference?

A hollowed place in something solid; a cavity or pit

In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age and early Middle Ages in northern Europe, a mead hall was where a lord and his retainers ate and also slept.

An opening or perforation

A corridor or passageway in a building.

(Sports) An opening in a defensive formation, such as the area of a baseball infield between two adjacent fielders.

A large entrance room or vestibule in a building; a lobby.

A fault or flaw

A building for public gatherings or entertainments.

A deep place in a body of water.

The large room in which such events are held.

An animal's hollowed-out habitation, such as a burrow.

A building used for the gatherings and social activities of a church, fraternal order, or other organization.

An ugly, squalid, or depressing dwelling.

A building belonging to a school, college, or university that provides classroom, dormitory, or dining facilities.

A deep or isolated place of confinement; a dungeon.

A large room in such a building.

An awkward situation; a predicament.

The group of students using such a building

The small pit lined with a cup into which a golf ball must be hit.

Chiefly British A meal served in such a building.

One of the divisions of a golf course, from tee to cup.

The main house on a landed estate.

(Physics) A vacant position in an atom left by the absence of a valence electron, especially a position in a semiconductor that acts as a carrier of positive electric charge. Also called electron hole.

The castle or house of a medieval monarch or noble.

To put a hole in.

The principal room in such a castle or house, used for dining, entertaining, and sleeping.

To put or propel into a hole.

A corridor; a hallway.

To make a hole in something.

A meeting room.

A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.

A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).

An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.

A building providing student accommodation at a university.

(heading) In games.

The principal room of a secular medieval building.

(golf) 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.

(obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.

(golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.

A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.

(baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.

(India) A living room.

(chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.

(Oxbridge) A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.

(stud poker) 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.

(Oxbridge slang) A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.

In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.

A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.

An excavation pit or trench.

The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment.

(figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.

A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times.

(informal) A container or receptacle.

A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.

(physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.

A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).

(computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.

The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.

An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.

Cleared passageway in a crowd; - formerly an exclamation.

Sex, or a sex partner.

An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open;

Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.

A large entrance or reception room or area

(slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.

A large room for gatherings or entertainment;

(figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.

A college or university building containing living quarters for students

(graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.

The large room of a manor or castle

A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.

English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943)

(transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).

United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924)

To destroy.

United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914)

(intransitive) To go into a hole.

United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871)

(transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.

United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907)

(transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

A large and imposing house

Whole.

A large building used by a college or university for teaching or research;

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.

A large building for meetings or entertainment

An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation.

A small cavity used in some games, usually one into which a marble or ball is to be played or driven; hence, a score made by playing a marble or ball into such a hole, as in golf.

To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.

To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.

To go or get into a hole.

An opening into or through something

An opening deliberately made in or through something

One playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course;

An unoccupied space

A depression hollowed out of solid matter

A fault;

Informal terms for a difficult situation;

Informal terms for the mouth

Hit the ball into the hole

Make holes in