Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Land rented or leased from another.
- n. Legally owned property, such as land, capital, or stocks. Often used in the plural.
- n. The collection of books and other reading materials at a library.
- n. Law A court ruling, especially a ruling on a point of law raised in an official proceeding.
- n. Sports Illegal use of the arms, hands, body, or playing stick to obstruct the movements of an opponent.
- adj. Tending to impede or delay progress: a holding action.
- adj. Designed for usually short-term storage or retention: a holding tank; a holding cell.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of keeping or retaining.
- n. A tenure.
- n. That which is held. Specifically— Lands held by one person; especially, lands held under a superior.
- n. plural Property in general, especially stocks and bonds.
- n. The burden or chorus of a song.
- n. That which holds, binds, or influences; hold; influence; power.
- n. In archery, the short pause after drawing a bow to fix the aim and make ready for loosing the bowstring. See hold, intransitive verb, 6.
Wiktionary
- n. Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
- n. A determination of law made by a court.
- n. A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
- n. obsolete That which holds, binds, or influences.
- n. obsolete The burden or chorus of a song.
- v. present participle of hold.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining.
- n. A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
- n. That which holds, binds, or influences.
- n. obsolete The burden or chorus of a song.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of retaining something
- n. something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone
Examples
“He was holding court it was really the only time I've seen anyone do the thing we mean by the phrase "holding court" in what may or may not have been his real apartment, clearly loving the attention.”
“The design of the distribution system within the tertiary command is influenced by the size of holdings (the term holding is used in the sense of a contiguous area farmed as a unit), as well as by the type of crop being grown, particularly the extent of paddy.”
“The teabagger view of Massa's Town Hall Phillip Dampier: More importantly, Randy Kuhl ended his term holding town hall meetings in a back room, where ...”
“If they were car companies, their future would probably look something like that of Mercedes: a famous label holding its own in a high-end but small niche.”
“Friday, 478 U.S. 385 1986, which they characterize as holding that the clock on the statute of limitations begins running anew "with each disparate paycheck even if the disparity arose out of discriminatory pay decisions made years earlier.”
“The various protest groups are infuriated over what they call their holding pen, a fenced in area across the street from the Fleet Center.”
“The various protest groups are infuriated over what they call their holding pen, a fenced-in area across the street from the FleetCenter.”
“But in this case, they are doing what they call holding the vote open.”
“However, I do believe this is step 1 in holding the corporations accountable for "managing" themselves, versus bilking themselves to death.”
McConnell: There's a bailout fund in current Wall St. reform bill
“The Beachwood Volunteer Fire Company will begin holding its annual Christmas tree sale fundraiser on Tuesday, December 1st.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘holding’.
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FUN - gestures
There are thousands of sign languages and possibly millions of gestures in human communication but not all of them have a name. Some are understood everywhere, some are understood everywhere but di...
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Altered States Research Lab
Words and terms about (illicit) drugs and related subcultures.
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no little thing
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Sunbeam
Zoom'om'om; inspiration, vitality, solemness, and sunrays...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
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lucidityprevails's Words
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sailing
ballast, beam, boom, bow, bowsprit, bridge, buoy, chart, cockpit, current, davits, deck and 86 more...
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Unglish
English words or roots that take on a new life elsewhere
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bilby See noi siamo holding. Nov 10, 2008