Around vs Holding - What's the difference?
around | holding |
Defining a circle or closed curve containing a thing.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= Following the perimeter of a specified area and returning to the starting point.
Following a path which curves near an object, with the object on the inside of the curve.
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, passage=But Richmond
Near; in the vicinity of.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
, volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= At various places in.
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, title= Alive; existing.
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, title= Generally.
From place to place.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= From one state or condition to an opposite or very different one; with a metaphorical change in direction; bringing about awareness or agreement.
Partially or completely rotated, including to face in the opposite direction.
Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
* 2009 , The Economist,
A determination of law made by a court.
A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
* 1596 , , V. i. 3:
(obsolete) That which holds, binds, or influences.
(obsolete) Logic; consistency.
* 1598 , , IV. ii. 27:
(obsolete) The burden or chorus of a song.
* 1598 , , II. vii. 109:
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,
As a preposition around
is defining a circle or closed curve containing a thing.As an adjective around
is alive; existing.As an adverb around
is generally.As a proper noun holding is
.around
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(translation tables should match senses)Alternative forms
* arownd (obsolete)Preposition
(English prepositions)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.}}
Derived terms
* all around * aroundness * around the clock * around the bend * around the corner * around the world * bat around * beat around the bush * get around * go around * hang around * have been around * ring-around-the-rosy * round * run around/run-around/runaround * turn around/turnaround * wrap around/wraparoundAdjective
(-)Lee S. Langston
The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
Derived terms
* be aroundAdverb
(-)The climate of Tibet: Pole-land, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around , it changes everything.}}
- (see bring around, come around)
- (see bring around, come around)
Derived terms
(indicating repeated or continuous action) * boss around * fool around * fuck around * goof around * horse around * lie around * lounge around * mess around * monkey around * play around * shop around * sleep around (from place to place) * kick around * know one's way around * (soplink) * (soplink) * (soplink) * (soplink) * push around * (soplink)See also
* aboutholding
English
Noun
(wikipedia holding) (en noun)Law and order in Italy: Trouble with figures
- Italy's right-wing prime minister was about to cure his biggest headache by selling the state's holding in a troubled airline, Alitalia.
- Take again / From this my hand, as holding of the Pope / Your sovereign greatness and authority.
- (Burke)
- This has no holding , / To swear by him whom I protest to love / That I will work against him.
- Make battery to our ears with the loud music; / The while I'll place you; then the boy shall sing. / The holding every man shall beat as loud / As his strong sides can volley.