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What is the noun for holen?

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hole
  1. 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.
    1. An opening in a solid.
  2. (heading) In games.
    1. (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.
    2. (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
    3. (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
    4. (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
    5. (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.
    6. In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
  3. (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
  4. (figuratively) A weakness, a flaw
  5. (informal) A container or receptacle.
  6. (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
  7. (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
  8. (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
  9. (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
  10. (figuratively) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
  11. (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
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  13. Examples:
    1. “Someone had broken a hole in a meshed railing and people came through it and across the railway track to the Quay.”
      “He took a shovel, dug a hole, and buried his possessions.”
      “In such a man, the inside of the heart is an infinite empty hole and the knowledge of oneself is a perception of one's nothingness.”
holing
  1. (mining) undercutting in a bed of coal in order to bring down the upper mass
holings
  1. plural of holing
holes
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