Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

hollow

(ˈholəu) adjective

1. having an empty space in it. a hollow tree; Bottles, pipes and tubes are hollow.

2. (of a sound) strangely deep, as if made in something hollow. a hollow voice.

noun

1. something hollow. hollows in her cheeks.

2. a small valley; a dip in the ground. You can't see the farm from here because it's in a hollow.

ˈhollowness noun

beat hollow

to beat thoroughly at a game etc. The local team were beaten hollow by eight goals to one on Saturday.

hollow out

to make hollow. They hollowed out a tree-trunk to make a boat.

References in periodicals archive ?

In 1976, Union Carbide filed for a patent on a new "web" molding process that injected gas to hollow out substantially all of a part and leave only a random pattern of supporting ribs between two skins.

34 Gas-assist molding

Cecil and Quinn had left nothing to chance, electing to send Beat Hollow out last from the paddock, even though he should have been third in the pre-race parade.

RACING: HE'S A REAL SINN-SATION; SINNDAR STORMS TO GLORY - AND OUR ALASTAIR DOWN IS SPOT-ON Murtagh magic as the weight pays for Johnny

Rather than allowing the gas to enter the melt and hollow out channels within the part, both these gas-assist methods apply the gas to localized areas of the part surface.