Synonyms of the word

eyelet

• n. An object that consists of a rim and small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments,…
• n. A shaped metal embellishment containing a hole, used in scrapbook. Eyelets are typically set by punching…
• n. Cotton fabric with small holes.

cringle

• n. (nautical) A short piece of rope, arranged as a grommet around a metal ring, used to attach tackle to…
• n. A withe for fastening a gate.
• v. (nautical, transitive) To fasten or attach with a cringle.

eyehole

• n. The hole to which the viewer places his or her eye in a device such as a telescope.
• n. The hole in a helmet, skull, etc. corresponding to the position of the eye.

fastener

• n. something or someone that fastens.
• n. mechanically, any device that fastens; especially, a collective term for items such as screws, nuts, washers,…

fastening

• v. present participle of fasten.
• n. a hook or similar restraint used to fasten things together.

fixing

• n. The act of subverting (fixing) a vote.
• n. (Britain, usually in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs,…
• n. See fixings.
• v. present participle of fix.
• v. (Southern US, slang, with infinitive) Going; preparing; ready. Only used in fixing to.

grommet

• n. A reinforced eyelet, or a small metal or plastic ring used to reinforce an eyelet.
• n. (surfing, snowboarding, skateboarding) A young or inexperienced surfer, skateboarder, or snowboarder.
• n. A circle formed of three-stranded rope.
• v. (transitive) To insert a grommet into.
• v. (transitive) To fasten using a grommet.
• v. (intransitive) To apply grommets.

grummet

• n. Alternative spelling of grommet.

holdfast

• n. Something to or by which an object can be securely fastened.
• n. (zoology) A root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms, such as seaweed, other sessile…
• n. (archaic, medicine) Actinomycosis.

hole

• n. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.;…
• n. (heading) In games.
• n. (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
• n. (figuratively) A weakness, a flaw.
• n. (informal) A container or receptacle.
• n. (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged…
• n. (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
• n. (slang anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus.
• n. (Ireland, idiomatic, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
• n. (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
• n. (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
• n. (figuratively) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
• n. (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
• v. (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
• v. (transitive, by extension) To destroy.
• v. (intransitive) To go into a hole.
• v. (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
• v. (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
• v. simple past tense of hele.
• adj. Obsolete form of whole.

loop

• n. A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
• n. The opening so formed.
• n. A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
• n. A ring road or beltway.
• n. An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
• n. A complete circuit for an electric current.
• n. (programming) A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition…
• n. (graph theory) An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
• n. (topology) A path that starts and ends at the same point.
• n. (transport) A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
• n. (algebra) A quasigroup with an identity element.
• n. A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
• n. An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
• n. A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
• n. Alternative form of loup (mass of iron).
• n. (biochemistry) A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
• v. (transitive) To form something into a loop.
• v. (transitive) To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
• v. (transitive) To fly an aircraft in a loop.
• v. (transitive) To move something in a loop.
• v. (transitive) To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
• v. (transitive) To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
• v. (transitive) To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer…
• v. (intransitive) To form a loop.
• v. (intransitive) To move in a loop.