The difference between Hole and Opening

When used as nouns, hole means a hollow place or cavity, whereas opening means an act or instance of making or becoming open.

Hole is also verb with the meaning: to make holes in (an object or surface).

check bellow for the other definitions of Hole and Opening

  1. Hole as a noun:

    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 opening in a solid.

    Examples:

    "There’s a hole in my shoe.  nowrap Her stocking has a hole in it."

    "There’s a hole in my bucket."

  2. Hole as a noun:

    In games. 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. The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes. The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman. A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn. 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. In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.

    Examples:

    "I played 18 holes yesterday.  nowrap The second hole today cost me three strokes over par."

    "The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop."

  3. Hole as a noun (archaeology, slang):

    An excavation pit or trench.

  4. Hole as a noun (figuratively):

    A weakness, a flaw

    Examples:

    "I have found a hole in your argument."

  5. Hole as a noun (informal):

    A container or receptacle.

    Examples:

    "car hole;  brain hole'"

  6. Hole as a noun (physics):

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

  7. Hole as a noun (computing):

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

  8. Hole as a noun (slang anatomy):

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

    Examples:

    "Just shut your hole!"

  9. Hole as a noun (Ireland, Scotland, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole"):

    Sex, or a sex partner.

    Examples:

    "Are you going out to get your hole tonight?"

  10. Hole as a noun (informal, with "the"):

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

  11. Hole as a noun (slang):

    An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.

    Examples:

    "His apartment is a hole!"

  12. Hole as a noun (figurative):

    Difficulty, in particular, debt.

    Examples:

    "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."

  13. Hole as a noun (graph theory):

    A chordless cycle in a graph.

  1. Hole as a verb (transitive):

    To make holes in (an object or surface).

    Examples:

    "Shrapnel holed the ship's hull."

  2. Hole as a verb (transitive, by extension):

    To destroy.

    Examples:

    "She completely holed the argument."

  3. Hole as a verb (intransitive):

    To go into a hole.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Ben Jonson"

  4. Hole as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "Woods holed a standard three foot putt"

  5. Hole as a verb (transitive):

    To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

    Examples:

    "to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars"

  1. Hole as a verb:

  1. Hole as an adjective:

    Examples:

    "Such was the arrangement of the alphabet over the hole North"

  1. Opening as a verb:

  1. Opening as a noun:

    An act or instance of making or becoming open.

    Examples:

    "The daily openings of the day lily bloom gives it its name."

    "He remembered fondly the Christmas morning opening of presents."

  2. Opening as a noun:

    Something that is open.

    Examples:

    "A salamander darted out of an opening in the rocks."

    "He slipped through an opening in the crowd."

  3. Opening as a noun:

    An act or instance of beginning.

    Examples:

    "There have been few factory and store openings in the US lately."

    "Their opening of the concert with ''Brass in Pocket'' always fires up the crowd."

  4. Opening as a noun (chess):

    Something that is a beginning. The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe. The initial period a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening. The first few measures of a musical composition. The first few moves in a game of chess.

    Examples:

    "They were disappointed at the turnout for their opening, but hoped that word would spread."

    "John spends two hours a day studying openings, and another two hours studying [[endgame]]s."

  5. Opening as a noun:

    A vacant position, especially in an array. A time available in a schedule. An unoccupied employment position.

    Examples:

    "Are there likely to be any openings on the Supreme Court in the next four years?"

    "If you'd like to make a booking with us, we have an opening at twelve o'clock."

    "The only two-hour openings for the hockey rink are between 1AM and 5AM."

    "We have an opening in our marketing department."

  6. Opening as a noun:

    An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.

  7. Opening as a noun (math):

    In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.

  1. Opening as an adjective (cricket):

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