| air hole | a hole that allows the passage of air |
| Black Hole of Calcutta | a dungeon ( feet square) in a fort in Calcutta where as many as English prisoners were held overnight by Siraj-ud-daula, the next morning only were still alive |
bore
bore-hole
drill hole | a hole or passage made by a drill, usually made for exploratory purposes |
bullpen
detention cell
detention centre | a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily |
buttonhole
button hole | a hole through which buttons are pushed |
call center
call centre | a center equipped to handle a large volume of telephone calls (especially for taking orders or serving customers) |
center
centre | a building dedicated to a particular activity, they were raising money to build a new center for research |
center bit
centre bit | a bit with a sharp center point for guidance and two side cutters |
| ear hole | a hole (as in a helmet) for sound to reach the ears |
| finger hole | a hole for inserting a finger |
| finger hole | one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument, pitch changes when a finger covers it |
foxhole
fox hole | a small dugout with a pit for individual shelter against enemy fire |
| funk hole | dugout as a place of safe retreat (when in a funk) |
glory hole
lazaretto | a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship |
| hole | an opening deliberately made in or through something |
| hole golf hole | one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course, he played holes |
| hole card | (poker) a playing card dealt face down and not revealed until the showdown |
| lubber's hole | hole in a platform on a mast through which a sailor can climb without going out on the shrouds |
| mouth hole | a hole (as in a ski mask) for the mouth |
| nail hole | a hole left after a nail is removed |
plaza mall center shopping mall
shopping center
shopping centre | mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers, usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area, a modern version of the traditional marketplace, a good plaza should have a movie house, they spent their weekends at the local malls |
posthole
post hole | a hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post |
posthole digger
post-hole digger | a shovel used to sink postholes |
| shot hole | drill hole for a charge of an explosive |
| smoke hole | a vent (as in a roof) for smoke to escape |
| sound hole | a hole in a soundboard (as of a violin) designed to resonate with the tones |
vent
venthole
vent-hole
blowhole | a hole for the escape of gas or air |
dead center
dead centre | the position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque |
center of curvature
centre of curvature | the center of the circle of curvature |
trap
cakehole
hole
maw
yap
gob | informal terms for the mouth |
center
centre
nerve center
nerve centre | a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process, in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere |
center centre center of attention
centre of attention | the object upon which interest and attention focuses, his stories made him the center of the party |
kernel
substance core
center
centre
essence
gist
heart heart and soul
inwardness marrow
meat
nub
pith
sum
nitty-gritty f a e a c | the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience, the gist of the prosecutor's argument, the heart and soul of the Republican Party, the nub of the story |
center spread
centre spread | the spread at the center of a magazine |
center
centre | the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering |
| toad-in-the-hole | sausage baked in batter |
United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Centre for International Crime Prevention | the United Nations office responsible for crime prevention and criminal justice and law reform |
| center centre | a place where some particular activity is concentrated, they received messages from several centers |
nerve center
nerve centre | a center that provides information and control, the nerve center of the diamond industry is in Amsterdam |
center
centre
midpoint | a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure |
center of buoyancy
centre of buoyancy
center of immersion
centre of immersion | (physics) the center of mass of the immersed part of ship or other floating object |
center of gravity
centre of gravity | the point within something at which gravity can be considered to act, in uniform gravity it is equal to the center of mass |
center of flotation
centre of flotation | the center of gravity of a floating object |
center of mass
centre of mass | point representing the mean position of the matter in a body |
center centre middle
heart
eye | an area that is approximately central within some larger region, it is in the center of town, they ran forward into the heart of the struggle, they were in the eye of the storm |
center stage
centre stage | the central area on a theater stage |
city center
city centre
central city | the central part of a city |
storm center
storm centre | the central area or place of lowest barometric pressure within a storm |
| hole-in-the-wall | a small unpretentious out-of-the-way place, his office was a hole-in-the-wall |
watering place
watering hole
spa | a health resort near a spring or at the seaside |