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Hole vs. Trench — What's the Difference?

Hole vs. Trench — What's the Difference?

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Hole

A hollowed place in something solid; a cavity or pit
Dug a hole in the ground with a shovel.

Trench

A trench is a type of excavation or depression in the ground that is generally deeper than it is wide (as opposed to a wider gully, or ditch), and narrow compared with its length (as opposed to a simple hole or pit).In geology, trenches result from erosion by rivers or by geological movement of tectonic plates. In civil engineering, trenches are often created to install underground utilities such as gas, water, power and communication lines.

Hole

An opening or perforation
A hole in the clouds.
Had a hole in the elbow of my sweater.

Trench

A long, narrow ditch
Dig a trench around the perimeter of the fire

Hole

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

A long, narrow, deep depression in the ocean bed, typically one running parallel to a plate boundary and marking a subduction zone
The Marianas Trench

Hole

A fault or flaw
There are holes in your argument.

Trench

A trench coat.

Hole

A deep place in a body of water.

Trench

Dig a trench or trenches in (the ground)
She trenched the terrace to a depth of 6 feet

Hole

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

Trench

Border closely on; encroach on
This would surely trench very far on the dignity and liberty of citizens

Hole

An ugly, squalid, or depressing dwelling.

Trench

A deep furrow or ditch.

Hole

A deep or isolated place of confinement; a dungeon.

Trench

A long narrow ditch embanked with its own soil and used for concealment and protection in warfare.

Hole

An awkward situation; a predicament.

Trench

A long, steep-sided valley on the ocean floor.

Hole

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

Trench

To dig or make a trench or trenches in (land or an area, for example).

Hole

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

Trench

To place in a trench
Trench a pipeline.

Hole

(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.

Trench

To dig a trench or trenches.

Hole

To put a hole in.

Trench

To encroach. Often used with on or upon
"The bishop exceeded his powers, and trenched on those of the king" (Francis Parkman).

Hole

To put or propel into a hole.

Trench

To verge or border. Often used with on or upon
"a broad playfulness that trenched on buffoonery" (George Meredith).

Hole

To make a hole in something.

Trench

A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.

Hole

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.

Trench

(military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.

Hole

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.

Trench

(archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.

Hole

(heading) In games.

Trench

(informal) A trench coat.

Hole

(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.

Trench

To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.

Hole

(golf) 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.

Trench

To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.

Hole

(baseball) 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.

Trench

(archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.

Hole

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

Trench

To have direction; to aim or tend.

Hole

(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.

Trench

To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.

Hole

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

Trench

To cut furrows or ditches in.
To trench land for the purpose of draining it

Hole

An excavation pit or trench.

Trench

To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
To trench a garden for certain crops

Hole

(figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
I have found a hole in your argument.

Trench

To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
The wide wound that the boar had trenchedIn his soft flank.
This weak impress of love is as a figureTrenched in ice, which with an hour's heatDissolves to water, and doth lose its form.

Hole

(informal) A container or receptacle.
Car hole;
Brain hole

Trench

To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
No more shall trenching war channel her fields.

Hole

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

Trench

To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.

Hole

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

Trench

To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.

Hole

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

Trench

To encroach; to intrench.
Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon the prerogative of the divine nature?

Hole

Sex, or a sex partner.
Are you going out to get your hole tonight?

Trench

To have direction; to aim or tend.
Like powerful armies, trenching at a townBy slow and silent, but resistless, sap.

Hole

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

Trench

A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.

Hole

(slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
His apartment is a hole!

Trench

An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.
In a trench, forth in the park, goeth she.

Hole

(figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

Trench

An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.

Hole

(graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.

Trench

A ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth

Hole

A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
We’re supposed to take the hole at Cronk and wait for the Limited to pass.

Trench

A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

Hole

(transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.

Trench

Any long ditch cut in the ground

Hole

To destroy.
She completely holed the argument.

Trench

Impinge or infringe upon;
This impinges on my rights as an individual
This matter entrenches on other domains

Hole

(intransitive) To go into a hole.

Trench

Fortify by surrounding with trenches;
He trenched his military camp

Hole

(transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
Woods holed a standard three foot putt

Trench

Cut or carve deeply into;
Letters trenched into the stone

Hole

(transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
To hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars

Trench

Set, plant, or bury in a trench;
Trench the fallen soldiers
Trench the vegetables

Hole

Whole.

Trench

Cut a trench in, as for drainage;
Ditch the land to drain it
Trench the fields

Hole

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.
The holes where eyes should be.
The blind wallsWere full of chinks and holes.
The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.

Trench

Dig a trench or trenches;
The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench

Hole

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.
The foxes have holes, . . . but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Hole

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.

Hole

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

Hole

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

Hole

To go or get into a hole.

Hole

An opening into or through something

Hole

An opening deliberately made in or through something

Hole

One playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course;
He played 18 holes

Hole

An unoccupied space

Hole

A depression hollowed out of solid matter

Hole

A fault;
He shot holes in my argument

Hole

Informal terms for a difficult situation;
He got into a terrible fix
He made a muddle of his marriage

Hole

Informal terms for the mouth

Hole

Hit the ball into the hole

Hole

Make holes in

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