hollow vs kettle hole

kettle hole vs hollow

hollow and kettle hole both are nouns.

hollow is an adjective but kettle hole is not an adjective.

hollow is a verb but kettle hole is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hollow	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
kettle hole	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, kettle hole is a hyponym of hollow; that is, kettle hole is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than hollow:

hollow: a depression hollowed out of solid matter
kettle hole: (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits

Other hyponyms of hollow include burrow, tunnel, gopher hole, kettle, cavity, pit, chuckhole, pothole, rabbit burrow, rabbit hole, wormhole.

hollow (noun)	kettle hole (noun)
a depression hollowed out of solid matter	(geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits
a small valley between mountains
a cavity or space in something

hollow (adjective)	kettle hole (adjective)
not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
lacking in substance or character
devoid of significance or force
as if echoing in a hollow space

hollow (verb)	kettle hole (verb)
remove the interior of
remove the inner part or the core of

Difference between hollow and kettle hole

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