"plot hole" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plot holes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "plot hole (plural plot holes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Narratology",
          "orig": "en:Narratology",
          "parents": [
            "Drama",
            "Literature",
            "Theater",
            "Culture",
            "Entertainment",
            "Writing",
            "Art",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
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            "Human",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Allan Brown, Inside the Wicker Man, Birlinn",
          "text": "Invited to collaborate with Hitch, Shaffer watched several of the director's previous films and noticed in North by Northwest a glaring plot hole; Cary Grant hides aboard a train that he has selected randomly yet, somehow, his pursuers lie in wait aboard the same train.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot."
      ],
      "id": "en-plot_hole-en-noun-9cWBpVGT",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(authorship) A gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "fridge logic"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "plothole"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "authorship",
        "broadcasting",
        "communications",
        "film",
        "journalism",
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "television",
        "writing"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "an inconsistence within a storyline",
          "word": "juonellinen virhe"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "an inconsistence within a storyline",
          "word": "juonellinen aukko"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "an inconsistence within a storyline",
          "word": "juonellinen epäloogisuus"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "an inconsistence within a storyline",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "intriguérence"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "an inconsistence within a storyline",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Ungereimtheit"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "sense": "an inconsistence within a storyline",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "חור בעלילה"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "an inconsistence within a storyline",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "buco di trama"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "an inconsistence within a storyline",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "laguna argumental"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "plot hole"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "plot hole"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plot holes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "plot hole (plural plot holes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "fridge logic"
    }
  ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Allan Brown, Inside the Wicker Man, Birlinn",
          "text": "Invited to collaborate with Hitch, Shaffer watched several of the director's previous films and noticed in North by Northwest a glaring plot hole; Cary Grant hides aboard a train that he has selected randomly yet, somehow, his pursuers lie in wait aboard the same train.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(authorship) A gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "authorship",
        "broadcasting",
        "communications",
        "film",
        "journalism",
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "television",
        "writing"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "plot hole"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "plothole"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "an inconsistence within a storyline",
      "word": "juonellinen virhe"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "an inconsistence within a storyline",
      "word": "juonellinen aukko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "an inconsistence within a storyline",
      "word": "juonellinen epäloogisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "an inconsistence within a storyline",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "intriguérence"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "an inconsistence within a storyline",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Ungereimtheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "an inconsistence within a storyline",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "חור בעלילה"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "an inconsistence within a storyline",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "buco di trama"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an inconsistence within a storyline",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "laguna argumental"
    }
  ],
  "word": "plot hole"
}