swallow hole


  • WordNet 3.6
    • n swallow hole a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
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In literature:

He caused this assistant to swallow small metallic tubes pierced with holes.
"Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine" by George M. Gould
Only two black holes swallow the brilliance of the moon.
"Sword Blades and Poppy Seed" by Amy Lowell
But how is the swallow-hole sure to end in a cave?
"Madam How and Lady Why or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children" by Charles Kingsley
Rooks and swallows fly continually in and out of their holes.
"Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science" by Various
But he either come in here or a hole in the ground swallowed him.
"Mavericks" by William MacLeod Raine
Oh, you gulp, you succession of swallows, you human sink-hole!
"The Colossus" by Opie Read
What right has he to set up dams and tunnel out swallow-holes to deflect the current of your thoughts?
"Certain Personal Matters" by H. G. Wells
The hole torn in the ground at the root was big enough to swallow a horse and cart.
"S.O.S. Stand to!" by Reginald Grant
Do you suppose that this is part of its necessary economy, and that a swallow could not catch flies unless it lived in a hole?
"Love's Meinie" by John Ruskin
He's swallowed up in some hole or another, or else eat up by wild beasts.
"Fire Island" by G. Manville Fenn
"Farm drainage" by Henry Flagg French
The hole that had swallowed Jerry up yawned at their very feet.
"The Camp in the Snow" by William Murray Graydon
A fellow can't swallow the Blanco and feel like kickin' a hole in the sky right away.
"The Fighting Edge" by William MacLeod Raine
"Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen" by Hans Christian Andersen
If you were to swallow the least bit of lime, and then drink some water, it would burn a hole through you just as quick as anything.
"Harper's Young People, June 29, 1880" by Various
At sunset he went out to take a last look at the hole that had swallowed up his all.
"The Outspan" by Percy Fitzpatrick
The term "pot-hole" is also sometimes used synonymously with "swallow-hole" (q.v.).
"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8" by Various
We discovered two frogs in the hole; and near it we killed a rattlesnake, which had swallowed a small prairie-dog.
"Oregon and Eldorado" by Thomas Bulfinch

In news:

Hole swallows building, telephone poles.
The obvious question is, why was there a hole big enough to swallow a truck in the middle of this parking lot.
0I was swimming a jig the size of a housecat and the color of peppermint candy, but it disappeared in gin-clear water a foot off the gunnel like it had been swallowed by a black hole.
A black hole swallowing a star.
After complaining for almost a week about low water pressure in Fondren, it took a sink hole swallowing up a truck to get work crews to fix the problem.
A giant sink hole in downtown Milwaukee swallowed up a Cadillac Escalade.
Canadian Home Swallowed by Sink Hole, 2 Family Members Dead, Dog Alive.
Monstrous sink hole swallows road.
But Noel stresses they're very dangerous because, if swallowed , they put pressure on fragile intestinal tissue and can create holes in the intestine.
When swallowed , these magnets can attract one another internally, resulting in serious injuries, such as small holes in the stomach and intestines, intestinal blockage, blood poisoning and even death.
Black hole caught in act of swallowing a star.

In science:

Adams, Mbonye, and Laughlin conjecture that the cosmological constant is caused by a sea of virtual particles, and that black holes may swallow those virtual particles and thereby accrete energy.
Black Holes Must Die
Adams et al. attribute the unexpected increase in black hole mass in their model to swallowing of virtual particles.
Black Holes Must Die
In the ordinary (no Λ) Hawking process, the black hole cannot gain mass by such processes; the negative energy particle can’t propagate outside the horizon, and if the positive energy particle joins its partner and is swallowed, nothing has changed.
Black Holes Must Die
Of course, if the supernova forms a black hole with mass greater than ∼ 2 solar masses, it will swallow up its innermost material and, thus, most or all of the 44Ti (and 56Ni) it produced.
Are Ti44-Producing Supernovae Exceptional?
The relationship is consistent with the second law of thermodynamics and seems natural on the grounds of information swallowed by the hole.
Exotic Black Holes
The other part of the ﬂow (at small polar angles where l < l∗ ) is directly swallowed by the black hole with a low radiative eﬃciency.
Accretion Disk Models of Luminous Black Holes
At the high temperatures appropriate to RIAFs, electrons radiate energy much more efﬁciently than the ions (by virtue of their much smaller mass) and are, therefore, expected to contribute dominantly to the observed emission, while the thermal energy of the ions is swallowed by the black hole.
Astrophysical gyrokinetics: kinetic and fluid turbulent cascades in magnetized weakly collisional plasmas
Nevertheless, physical intuition tells us that the entropy of the hole should have gone up when it swallowed the box of gas.
What Exactly is the Information Paradox?
As we have already seen, it is possible for black holes to give up energy to the outside world both by swallowing material particles of negative energy and by accepting negative energy electromagnetic ﬁelds.
General Relativistic MHD Jets
Typical rates for a massive black hole like the one in the center of our Milky Way are such that one star is swallowed every 10.000 years.
Experimental tests of pseudo-complex General Relativity
In brief, the gas is swallowed by the black hole before it has time to radiate away its gravitationally acquired energy.
The Central Regions of the Galaxy and Galaxies: A Brief Summary
Gas is being swallowed by the black hole, which is fed by a continuous supply of fresh material through the accretion disk.
X-ray spectroscopy of NGC 5548
In effect, a MECO just swallows accreting particles about as effectively as a black hole.
Does Sgr A* Have an Intrinsic Magnetic Moment Instead of an Event Horizon?
In the optically thin limit, the photons or neutrinos emitted at some location near the black hole are transfered along the null geodesics and some of them are swallowed by the black hole.
Anisotropic radiation field and trapped photons around the Kerr black hole
Also, we do not need the particles to be emitted and judge which particles will be swallowed by the black hole, as in the calculations done in e.g.
Anisotropic radiation field and trapped photons around the Kerr black hole