Air hole
() A hole to admit or discharge air |
Air hole
() A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air |
Black hole
() A dungeon or dark cell in a prison |
Cat-hole
(n.) One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed. |
Center
(n.) A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle |
Center
(n.) The middle or central portion of anything. |
Center
(n.) A principal or important point of concentration |
Center
(n.) The earth. |
Center
(n.) Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left. |
Center
(n.) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting. |
Center
(n.) One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves. |
Center
(n.) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe. |
Center
(v. i.) Alt. of Centre |
Centre
(v. i.) To be placed in a center |
Centre
(v. i.) To be collected to a point |
Center
(v. t.) Alt. of Centre |
Centre
(v. t.) To place or fix in the center or on a central point. |
Centre
(v. t.) To collect to a point |
Centre
(v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center. |
Centre
(n. & v.) See Center. |
Hand-hole
(n.) A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc. |
Hole
(a.) Whole. |
Hole
(n.) A hollow place or cavity |
Hole
(n.) An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal |
Hole
(n.) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in |
Hole
(n.) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball. |
Hole
(v. i.) To go or get into a hole. |
Peeping hole
() See Peephole. |
Pit-hole
(n.) A pit |
Record
(v. t.) To recall to mind |
Record
(v. t.) To repeat |
Record
(v. t.) To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like |
Record
(v. i.) To reflect |
Record
(v. i.) To sing or repeat a tune. |
Record
(v. t.) A writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts or events, is recorded |
Record
(v. t.) An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body, or public officer, are recorded |
Record
(v. t.) An authentic official copy of a document which has been entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of some officer designated by law. |
Record
(v. t.) An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice |
Record
(v. t.) The various legal papers used in a case, together with memoranda of the proceedings of the court |
Record
(v. t.) Testimony |
Record
(v. t.) That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events |
Record
(v. t.) That which has been, or might be, recorded |
Record
(v. t.) That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race. |
Sight-hole
(n.) A hole for looking through |
Teaze-hole
(n.) The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced. |
| record track record | the sum of recognized accomplishments, the lawyer has a good record, the track record shows that he will be a good president |
| record | an extreme attainment, the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport), he tied the Olympic record, coffee production last year broke all previous records, Chicago set the homicide record |
| track record | the fastest time ever recorded for a specific distance at a particular racetrack, the track record for the mile and a half at Belmont is minutes seconds held by Secretariat since |
| world record | the best record in the whole world |
center field
centerfield | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the central third of the outfield |
| center | a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game |
| center | (American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play, it is a center's responsibility to get the football to the quarterback |
| center | the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game |
| air hole | a hole that allows the passage of air |
Army High Performance Computing Research Center
AHPCRC | a United States defense laboratory to conduct research in high-performance computing for defense technology applications, a partnership of government and university and industry |
| 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 |
| burn center | a center where patients with severe burns can be treated |
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 |
center field
centerfield
center | the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher, he hit the ball to deep center |
| center punch | a tool with a conical point that is used to make indentations in metal (especially to mark points for drilling) |
community center
civic center | a center where the members of a community can gather for social or cultural activities |
conference center
conference house | a center where conferences can be conducted |
| control center | the operational center for a group of related activities, the general in command never left the control center |
day nursery
day care center | a nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work |
| ear hole | a hole (as in a helmet) for sound to reach the ears |
| entertainment center | a wall unit containing sound and television systems |
| 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 |
phonograph album
record album | an album for holding phonograph records |
phonograph record
phonograph recording
record
disk disc platter | sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove, used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove |
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 |
record changer
autohanger
changer | an automatic mechanical device on a record player that causes new records to be played without manual intervention |
| record jacket | the jacket for a phonograph record |
record player
phonograph | machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically |
record sleeve
record cover | a sleeve for storing a phonograph record |
research center
research facility | a center where research is done |
| 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 |