Hole and Shot

Hole

Hole noun - A place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thing.

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Shot and hole are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shot" instead a noun "Hole".

Nearby Words: holed, holey, holer, holing

Shot noun - A directed propelling of a missile by a firearm or artillery piece.

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Hole and shot are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hole" instead a noun "Shot".

full	full hole	full shot
nice	nice hole	nice shot
clear	clear hole	clear shot
clean	clean hole	clean shot
Other adjectives: long, particular, perfect, top, single, actual, real, big, great, new, final, random, next, last, wide.

There's a shot of a hole right through a wide skyscraper, as if something dived through it — similar to a hole Zilla made in Godzilla (1998).

Source: Film / Godzilla (2014)
Interestingly, the shot uses only one hole instead of the typical two-hole matte to emulate the binocular vision.

Source: Film / The Bridge on the River Kwai
The MacGyver episode "The Heist" has a non-gory gory discretion shot in which the death of an embezzling accountant is represented by a shot of his glasses falling to the ground with a bullet hole through one lens (but no bloodstains).

Source: Gory Discretion Shot

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