Catching vs Holding - What's the difference?
catching | holding |
The action of the verb catch.
* 1819 , Bartholomew Parr, The London Medical Dictionary
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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As verbs the difference between catching and holding
is that catching is present participle of lang=en while holding is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between catching and holding
is that catching is the action of the verb catch while holding is something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.As an adjective catching
is contagious.As a proper noun Holding is
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Verb
(head)Noun
- Though catchings of the breath and occasional syncope appear in the more early stages, yet they only become considerable and dangerous in the later
holding
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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.