Puncture vs. Hole — What's the Difference?

A small hole in a tyre resulting in an escape of air

A hollowed place in something solid; a cavity or pit

Make a puncture in (something)

An opening or perforation

Cause a sudden collapse of (mood or feeling)

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

To pierce with a pointed object.

A fault or flaw

To make (a hole) by piercing.

A deep place in a body of water.

To depreciate or deflate

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

To be pierced or punctured

An ugly, squalid, or depressing dwelling.

The act or an instance of puncturing.

A deep or isolated place of confinement; a dungeon.

A hole or depression made by a sharp object, especially a hole in an automotive tire.

An awkward situation; a predicament.

The act or an instance of puncturing.

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

A hole, cut, or tear created by a sharp object.

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

(specifically) A hole in a vehicle's tyre, causing the tyre to deflate.

(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.

To pierce; to break through; to tear a hole.

To put a hole in.

The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed.

To put or propel into a hole.

A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin.

To make a hole in something.

To pierce with a small, pointed instrument, or the like; to prick; to make a puncture in; as, to puncture the skin.

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

Loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object

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

A small hole made by a sharp object

(heading) In games.

The act of puncturing or perforating

(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.

Pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into;

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

Make by piercing;

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

Reduce or lessen the size or importance of;

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

Cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing;

(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.

Be pierced or punctured;

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

An excavation pit or trench.

(figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.

(informal) A container or receptacle.

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

(computing) 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.

Sex, or a sex partner.

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

(slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.

(figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.

(graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.

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

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

To destroy.

(intransitive) To go into a hole.

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

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

Whole.

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.

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