| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. Insincerely; deceitfully.[Websters]
2. In a void, blank or vain manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a vacant or devoid manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a false, spurious, supposititious, snide or inappropriate manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a profound or sunken manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a counterfeit or dud manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a bogus or artificial manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a bare or vacuous manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a clear, unoccupied or apparent manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Infrequently used adverbial inflection of the adjective hollow.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (hollow) | 1. Not solid; having a space or gap or cavity; "a hollow wall"; "a hollow tree"; "hollow cheeks"; "his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year".[Wordnet]. 2. As if echoing in a hollow space; "the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom".[Wordnet]. 3. Devoid of significance or point; "a hollow victory".[Wordnet]. 4. Deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses".[Wordnet]. 5. Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.[Websters]. 6. Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.[Websters]. 7. Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.[Websters]. 8. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.[Websters]. 9. Being empty, void, sunken, blank or vacant.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adjective base of the adverb hollowly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "HOLLOWLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1584. (references) |
Specialty Definition: HOLLOWLY
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adverb] Insincerely; deceitfully.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Adverb] In a hollow manner. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: hollow
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| All hollow | Entirely, completely; as, to beat any one all hollow. [Low]. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Barkhamsted Hollow | Barkhamsted Hollow was a village in northwestern Connecticut. It was part of the town of Barkhamsted, Connecticut in Litchfield County, Connecticut, incorporated as part of Barkhamsted in 1779. It was flooded by the creation of the Barkhamsted Resevior in 1940, splitting Barkhamsted and the nearby town of Hartland, Connecticut in half. (references) | ||
| Bean Hollow State Beach | Bean Hollow State Beach is a beach operated by the California Department of Parks and Recreation in San Mateo County near Pescadero, USA. (references) | ||
| Boston Hollow | Boston Hollow is a deep ravine in Ashford, Connecticut. It is a unique location in several ways. In geological terms it is an ancient fault in the Avalonian bedrock of the eastern highlands of Connecticut. Although there are many faults in this region, none is as deeply cleft, well pronounced, nor well preserved as this hollow. (references) | ||
| Chatfield Hollow State Park | Chatfield Hollow State Park is a state park of Connecticut located in Killingworth, Connecticut. There are trails in the park, a lake beach and a stream. There is trout fishing in the state park, as well as Indian Caves, hiking, birdwatching, historic sites, mountain biking, and picnicking areas. One of the park's attractions is a water wheel. The park is 356 acres (1.4 km²) big. (references) | ||
| Cow Hollow | Cow Hollow is an upper-class neighborhood in San Francisco, California, located between Russian Hill and The Presidio, and bordering the Marina District. The land was used for cow grazing (as its name would imply) and a settlement for fishermen (the coast line being much closer to the area back then than it is now). In 1915, part of Cow Hollow hosted the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. (references) | ||
| Dale Hollow Reservoir | The Dale Hollow Reservoir is an artificial lake situated middleways along the Kentucky/Tennessee border. The lake lies mainly in Tennessee, where it covers portions of Clay, Pickett, Overton and Fentress Counties. Small arms of the lake also extend north into the Kentucky counties of Cumberland and Clinton. The project consists of 27,700 acres (112 km²) of water and 24,842 acres (101 km²) of surrounding land. The lake is formed by the damming of the Obey River, 7.3 miles (12 km) above its juncture with the Cumberland River at river mile 380. (references) | ||
| Edison Hollow South | Edison Hollow South is a condo complex with 220 units that are only 3 blocks away from Edison Train Station. It has very strong community group on [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EdisonHollowSouth Edison Hollow South Yahoo Group] where prospective residents and new comers can join and request for any type of assistance including, rental, buying, moving, condo maintenance ...etc. (references) | ||
| Godric's Hollow | Godric's Hollow is a fictional village in the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling. (references) | ||
| Half Hollow Hills | The Half Hollow Hills Community is located in Dix Hills, New York. It has exactly nine schools in its district (5 which are elementary, 2 which are middle, and 2 which are high schools). The current superintendent is Dr. Sheldon Karnilow. The Half Hollow Hills community is known for its focus on research and expanding the general scientific community. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: hollow
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| All hollow | Slang in 1811 | ALL HOLLOW. He was beat all hollow, i.e. he had no chance of conquering: it was all hollow, or a hollow thing, it was a decided thing from the beginning. See HOLLOW. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| BENCH WORKER, HOLLOW HANDLE | Occupations | Performs any combination of following tasks involved in assembling knife handles and handles for hollowware, such as creamers and sugar bowls: Holds halves of handles against electrodes on spot-welding machine to tack-weld them together. Places handles on rack hooks and dips them in tank of flux. Places knife handle halves in assembly press to fit halves together onto metal holding frame preparatory to soldering. Inserts premeasured amount of solder in hollow handle. Loads handles on screen conveyor that carries them through furnace. Positions soldered handles in fixture of milling machine or belt grinder to face mouth of handles. Positions handle in fixture and depresses pedal that submerges handles into water tank and forces compressed air into fixture. Observes handles to detect air bubbles indicating faulty soldering. Brushes flux on inside of handles and sprinkles them with powdered solder, using reed scoop. (references) | |
| Colluvial Hollow | Administration | A bow-shaped concavity in bedrock that collects sediment between debris flows. (references) | |
| Frost hollow | Physics | A low-lying area into which cold air drains by katabatic flow(forming a frost pool)and in which frosts are more frequent and more intense than in than in the surrounding locality. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Hexagonal hollow set screw | Mechanical Engineering | A headless set screw which is a socket screw with hexagonal socket. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Hollow arm | Mechanical Engineering | The flyer has a solid arm and the slubbing or roving enters the top of the --. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Hollow back | Art | A type of binding in which the cover is not glued to the back of a book, leaving an open space that allows the binding to flex easily when the volume is opened, without cracking the spine. Most hardcover trade editions are bound with a hollow back. Synonymous with loose-back and open back. Compare with tight back. (references) | |
| Hollow box | Building & Civil Engineering | A hollow steel girder of rectangular cross section, made of riveted or welded plates and angles. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Hollow charge | Military | (DOD, NATO) A shaped charge producing a deep cylindrical hole of relatively small diameter in the direction of its axis of rotation. (references) | |
| Hollow core door | Business | A door constructed so that the space (core) between the two facing sheets is not completely filled. Various spacing and reinforcing materials are used to separate the facing sheets; some interior hollow core doors have nothing except perimeter stiles and rails separating the facing sheets. (references) | |
| Hollow dam | Building & Civil Engineering | A modification of buttress dam in which the buttresses are grouped or joined together leaving hollow spaces in between, such as Dixence dam (Switzerland). Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Hollow dam | Mining | A dam built of reinforced concrete, mass concrete, or masonry in which the water pressure is resisted by a sloping slab or vault carried by buttresses. (references) | |
| Hollow driver | Business | A top pin hollowed out on one end to receive the spring, typically used in cylinders with extremely limited clearance in the pin chambers. (references) | |
| Hollow gravity dam (cellular gravity dam) | Energy | A dam which has the outward appearance of a gravity dam but is of hollow construction. A dam constructed of concrete and/or masonry on the outside but having a hollow interior and relying on its weight for stability. (references) | |
| Hollow metal | Business | Hollow items such as doors, frames, partitions, and enclosures which are usually fabricated from cold formed metal sheet, often carbon steel. (references) | |
| Hollow pin | Metallurgy | Short pin fastened on the drag box; receives the bush of the cope box to keep it in place after the mould is closed. The tail of the closing pin is introduced in the hollow pin bore. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Hollow pot | Building & Civil Engineering | Hollow-tile, hollow pot, hollow block: concrete or burnt clay hollow blocks used for construction of hollow-tile floors or hollow-block floors or pot floors. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Hollow quoin | Mining | Recessed masonry that carries the heel post of a lock gate. (references) | |
| Hollow screw | Mechanical Engineering | Screw whose top (head, or headless end) is provided with a profiled hollow ("socket") to receive a socket screw key. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Hollow sea | Food & Agriculture | A condition usually occuring where there is shoaling water or a current setting against the waves. The line from crest to trough makes a sharp angle, and consequently the sea is very dangerous to smaller craft. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Hollow Stem Auger Drilling | Environment | Conventional drilling method that uses augurs to penetrate the soil. As the augers are rotated, soil cuttings are conveyed to the ground surface via augur spirals. DP tools can be used inside the hollow augers. (references) | |
| Red Spot Hollow | Aerospace | See Great Red Spot. (references) | |
| Sleepy Hollow | Literature | The name given, in Washington Irving's Sketch Book, to a quiet old-world village on the Hudson. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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