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Ahold vs Behold - What's the difference?

ahold | behold |

As an adverb ahold

is (obsolete|nautical) to bring a ship to lie as near to the windward as it can to get out to sea.

As a noun ahold

is a hold, grip, grasp.

As a verb behold is

to see, or to look at.

ahold

English

Alternative forms

* a-hold (adverb)

Adverb

(-)
  • (obsolete, nautical) To bring a ship to lie as near to the windward as it can to get out to sea.
  • * 1611 , , by Shakespeare
    • Lay her ahold

    Noun

    (-)
  • A hold, grip, grasp.
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    , year=2009 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Tim Irwin , title=Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Thomas Nelson Inc. , isbn=9781595552747 , page=121 , passage=GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF! }}

    Usage notes

    * Mainly used in phrases such as catch'', ''lay'', ''take'' or ''get'' ahold ''of'', ''on'' or ''upon something.

    References

    (Webster 1913)

    behold

    English

    Verb

  • To see, or to look at.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

    Usage notes

    Rarely used in informal speech. The past participle beholden now has a meaning detached from the other forms of the word.

    Synonyms

    * get a load of

    Derived terms

    * beholder ** eye of the beholder

    References

    * * English irregular verbs ----