(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
(n.) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.
(v. i.) To go or get into a hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
(2) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(3) The speed of visiting holes and the development of a preferred pattern of hole-visits did not influence spatial discrimination performance.
(4) Macular holes, formerly believed to be rare in these injuries, were found in two of the five patients.
(5) Jane's life clearly still has a massive Spike-shaped hole in it.
(6) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
(7) Bar manager Joe Mattheisen, 66, who has worked at the hole-in-the-wall bar since 1997, said the bar has attracted younger, straighter crowds in recent years.
(8) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
(9) If the attacker's plan was to make important ideas disappear down the memory hole, it looks as if it has backfired spectacularly.
(10) In contrast, eyes with macular holes had a greater reduction in the steady-state VEP amplitude than eyes with optic neuritis.
(11) An 8-French right Judkins guiding catheter with a single side hole (USCI), a 3.0 mm balloon dilatation catheter (ACS), and a 0.018 high torque floppy guide wire (ACS) were used.
(12) Four hours p.i., a clustering of the p60 antigen and, 12 h p.i., a formation of finger-like holes, penetrating the nucleus, occurred.
(13) Campbell, Ann E. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass.
(14) We don't whip homeless vagrants out of town any more, or burn big holes in their ears, as in the brutish 16th century.
(15) The chancellor deliberately made cautious assumptions for the deficit in the budget, but the 5.6% contraction in the economy has blown an even bigger hole in the public finances than feared in April.
(16) He avoided everyone he didn't want to see when he was in Hong Kong, the first place he escaped to, and for several weeks he remained beyond the reach of the world's media, and doubtless a small army of spies, while holed up in a hotel room in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.
(17) There were no thromboses among infants with long end-hole catheters while infants with short end-hole catheters had thrombosis in 26%, long side-hole catheters in 33% and short side-hole catheters in 64%.
(18) The animal model was induced by left frontal burr hole opening and inoculation of a small piece of G-XII glioma tissue to 6- to 8-week-old rats.
(19) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(20) Thus, VP2 and VP5 together form a continuous layer around the inner shell except for holes on the 5-fold axis.
Mortise
Definition:
(n.) A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon.
(v. t.) To cut or make a mortisein.
(v. t.) To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study, the authors independently measured the distances between the talus and tibia at eight predetermined sites on the lateral and mortise views.
(2) Ankle mortise reconstitution and clubfoot correction by surgery have been the basis of treatment.
(3) The width of the tibiofibular "clear space" on both anterior-posterior and mortise views appeared to be the most reliable parameter for detecting early syndesmotic widening.
(4) PLIF is technically demanding; however, it establishes a mortise-graft interbody fusion to stabilize and restore the spinal architecture.
(5) The surgical technique involves creation of a tenon and mortise which not only preserves the insertions of both the labiomental muscles and at least some of the suprahyoid muscles but also improves the stability of transosseous fixation.
(6) The majority of cleft profiles in the Blue areas were of the simple 'overlap' type, whereas the commonest in the White areas were the 'mortise' type.
(7) Specialized surgical instruments used for the operation included mortising chisels with cannulated reamers, right-angled curettes, and depth-limited impactors.
(8) In two cases of fracture of the medial mortise corner, a valgus deformity with hypertrophy of the medial malleolus occurred.
(9) Fractures of the adult ankle with disruption of the tibiofibular syndesmosis require adequate stabilization of the ankle mortise to ensure satisfactory healing of the syndesmotic ligaments.
(10) Widening of the ankle mortise following fracture can be a subtle diagnosis requiring special radiographs to fully appreciate the extent of shortening and rotation of the fibula.
(11) The alignment of the knee relative to the mechanical axis of the leg (center of the femoral head to the midpoint of the ankle mortise) was determined by a standing three-foot roentgenogram.
(12) Radiographic and stereophotogrammetric analyses at 3 months showed no redislocation and only small movements in the ankle mortise.
(13) The deltoid ligament has crucial effects on the stability of the ankle mortise.
(14) It was found that when this ligament was divided along with division of the fibula, either above or below the syndesmosis, there was a degree of external rotation of the talus within the ankle mortise.
(15) The greatest movements were observed during plantar to dorsiflexion with an average widening of the ankle mortise of 1.0 mm and an average dorsal translation of the fibula of 0.9 mm.
(16) A review of the literature reveals an important dynamic function for the fibula in maintaining ankle mortise stability during weight bearing.
(17) Based on a 95% confidence interval, measurements obtained for the intact specimens would support the following criteria as consistent with a normal tibiofibular relationship: (1) a tibiofibular "clear space" on the anterior-posterior and mortise views of less than approximately 6 mm; (2) tibiofibular overlap on the anterior-posterior view of greater than approximately 6 mm or 42% of fibular width; (3) tibiofibular overlap on the mortise view of greater than approximately 1 mm.
(18) Surgical correction was based upon the derotation and dorsiflexion of the talus in the ankle mortise.
(19) Twenty-six had injuries in the medial corner of the ankle mortise (Mac-Farland).
(20) The pathogonomic findings are (a) an axial medially rotated and adducted distal third of the shaft of the tibia, (b) the plafond of the tibia with its mortise containing the "track-bound" talus, which is deflected strongly toward the tibial side, (c) an exaggerated midtarsal equinus, (d) ostensible restriction of dorsiflexion of the hindfoot against the tibia, (e) mild separation of the distal tibiofibular articulation, and (f) forward displacement of the gravitational axis to the naviculocunei-form joint.