Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. To grasp or grip firmly.
- v. idiomatic To keep; to store something for someone.
- v. idiomatic Wait a short while.
- v. idiomatic To remain loyal.
- v. idiomatic To persist
WordNet 3.0
- v. retain possession of
- v. be persistent, refuse to stop
- v. stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- v. hold the phone line open
- v. hold firmly
Examples
“As soon as Natalia Borisovna releases her hold on my shoulder, I rush across town to tell Nina the good news, and we celebrate in her kitchen with menthol cigarettes, pondering through the clouds of smoke how brilliantly we are going to lure our capitalist students into the world of Russian language and literature.”
“Over the sounding-board angels hold on high the St. Andrew's cross, and beneath the dove, representing the Holy”
“Probabiliorists; so that Probabiliorism had gained a strong hold on theologians when Medina arrived on the scene.”
“Pattie used her secondary limbs to maintain her own hold on the peg-pole.”
“As a result, they were wary of backing any policies that might weaken Gorbachevs hold on powerbe it greater autonomy let alone independence for individual Soviet republics or calls for more far-reaching political and economic reforms by Boris Yeltsin, who had been elected president of the Russian Republic.”
“Thus the first Karsid contacts—which, of course, were in the Karsid's usual form of 'traders from another land,' as they never disclosed the fact that they were alien until their hold on the economy was virtually unbreakable—was recorded as 'In the Year of the Gashkrith in the reign of Khorad son of N'gar in the five-hundredth cycle of Algol'—or Shem, as they sometimes called that star.”
“These last few have been days to hold on to: bright sunshine through fat-bottomed clouds; ringlet butterflies flickering over flowering grasses; yellow-and-black-banded cinnabar moth caterpillars twitching as they spun threads to tie themselves to ragwort; bright pink lip-gloss heads of pyramidal orchids – these things once observed becoming dearly held.”
“I wanted to be free of Uncle Jake: his remarks to Mother, his hold on Dad, his guns, his goons, his whiskey and cigars, even the sicklysweet smell of him that still haunted our living room.”
“In 1553 the House of Lorraine began to acquire a hold on the See of”
“Wittelsbach family, and Brandenburg was only able to acquire Cleve and a few adjacent districts (1614); even the hold on this inheritance was for a long time very insecure.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘hold on’.
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FUN - Beatles song titles
Typical words from Beatles song titles. Can you recreate the titles?
(Grammatical words have been omitted)another, three, place, work, eyes, new, said, give, face, day, going, like and 388 more...
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phrasal verbs: ON
hinge on, pass on, catch on, egg on, spur on, let on, dawn on, dream on, drag on, count on, ramble on, move on and 3 more...
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Stick Around
annotine, lasting, durable, everlasting, permanence, stable, abiding, immortal, hibernaculum, continual, dwelling-place, abiding-place and 57 more...
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MEC3 Lesson 138
palm reader, mystical, stay away, toothless, one-armed, fatten, Rolex, Waikiki, bury, nuptials, Ponderosa, frown and 34 more...
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Most Frequently Used English Idioms
about to, according to, account for, after all, all of a sudden, as far as, as for, as if, as long as, as soon as, as to, as well as and 70 more...
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vaca 22000_3
vaca 22000_3
call up, come over, hold on, hang up, drop in, drop by, call on, try on, sale, sell out, cashier, counter and 9 more...
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TT1 Lesson 5
drive thru, box, get, burger, quick, serve, all the way, pickles, medium, fries, make it, menu and 13 more...
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list for Christina
inspector, hold on, destiny, overturn, flake, pub, envelope, wine, glory, fiance, curious, fragile and 18 more...
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