site visit | a visit in an official capacity to examine a site to determine its suitability for some enterprise |
wrong-site surgery | a surgical operation performed on the wrong part of the body |
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 |
buttonhole button hole | a hole through which buttons are pushed |
drill site | workplace that is the site of a drill hole |
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 |
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 |
trap cakehole hole maw yap gob | informal terms for the mouth |
web site website internet site site | a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web, the Israeli web site was damaged by hostile hackers |
portal site portal | a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet, a portal typically has search engines and free email and chat rooms etc. |
toad-in-the-hole | sausage baked in batter |
bomb site | an area in a town that has been devastated by bombs, they opened a parking lot on the bomb site |
campsite campground camping site camping ground bivouac encampment camping area | a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent |
cemetery graveyard burial site burial ground burying ground memorial park necropolis | a tract of land used for burials |
dig excavation archeological site | the site of an archeological exploration, they set up camp next to the dig |
toxic waste dump toxic waste site toxic dumpsite | a location where toxic wastes can be or have been disposed of (often illegally) |
hole-in-the-wall | a small unpretentious out-of-the-way place, his office was a hole-in-the-wall |
launching site | a place for launching pads |
site situation | physical position in relation to the surroundings, the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides |
active site | the part of an enzyme or antibody where the chemical reaction occurs |
restriction site | the specific sites at which a restriction enzyme will cleave DNA |
site land site | the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located), a good site for the school |
toxic site toxic waste area Superfund site | a site where toxic wastes have been dumped and the Environmental Protection Agency has designated them to be cleaned up |
orphan site | a toxic waste area where the polluter could not be identified or the polluter refused to take action or pay for the cleanup |
vacant lot building site | a lot on which there are no permanent buildings |
watering place watering hole spa | a health resort near a spring or at the seaside |
black hole | a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star, extremely high gravitational field |
bolt-hole | a hole through which an animal may bolt when pursued into its burrow or den |
bullet hole | a hole made by a bullet passing through it |
gopher hole | a hole in the ground made by gophers |
hole | an opening into or through something |
hole hollow | a depression hollowed out of solid matter |