(pluralholes-in-one) (in golf)an occasion when a player hits the ball from theteeinto the hole using only one shot to get a hole-in-one TopicsSports: ball and racket sportsc2 Join us Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University...
the number of people available for employmentetc.There's a shortage of manpower in the building industry.mano de obra ˈmanservant–pluralˈmenservants–noun a male servant (especiallyone employed as a valet).He has only one manservant.sirviente,criado ...
Golfing hole-in-one is from 1914; as a verbal phrase from 1913. To need (something) like a hole in the head, applied to something useless or detrimental, first recorded 1944 in entertainment publications, probably a translation of a Yiddish expression such as ich darf es vi a loch in ...
: a defect in a crystal (as of a semiconductor) that is due to an electron's having left its normal position in one of the crystal bonds and that is equivalent in many respects to a positively charged particle 2 : a hollowed-out place a hole in an apple : such as a : a ...
Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook poke a hole in (something) 1. Literally, to form a hole in something by piercing it (with something else).Tommy, stop poking holes in your bread and eat it!She began absentmindedly poking a hole in her paper with her ...
PURPOSE: To provide a hole-in-one detector which can detect the existence of a golf ball in a cup with a flag stick being inserted into the cup by plural photoemitters and photodetectors installed in the cup with such a detection range that reflected light can be securely sensed by any ...
includes: a storage that stores plural types of hole patterns; a selector that selects a desired hole pattern from the stored hole patterns; and a setting unit that automatically sets at least one of positions, diameters, depths, and angles of plural holes based on the selected hole pattern...
:a domino end marked with one spot 2 :a very small amount or degree:particle 3 :a point scored especially on a service (as in tennis or handball) that an opponent fails to touch 4 :a golf score of one stroke on a hole also:a hole made in one stroke ...
In one example, the method includes deploying the downhole tool at a first station in a borehole. The downhole tool... HAROLD PFUTZNER,PD Wraight 被引量: 1发表: 2011年 Casting assembly for use in drilling lateral boreholes A joint of tubular casing with a pre-formed window in its ...
The ball rolled into the hole and she had won. an eighteen-hole golf course He liked to play a few holes after work. She won the first hole. She won by one hole.Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsb1 fault/weakness[countable, usually plural] a fault or weakness in something suc...