Hold vs Fill - What's the difference?
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(lb) To grasp or grip.
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*:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.
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(lb) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
#(lb) To have and keep possession of something.
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#(lb) To reserve.
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#(lb) To cause to wait or delay.
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#(lb) To detain.
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#(lb) To be or remain valid; to apply.
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#*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
#*:The rule holds in land as all other commodities.
#To keep oneself in a particular state.
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, chapter=2 #(lb) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:We cannot hold mortality's strong hand.
#*(Richard Crashaw) (1613-1649)
#*:Death! what do'st? O, hold thy blow.
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#*:He hath not sufficient judgment and self-command to hold his tongue.
#(lb) To bear, carry, or manage.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:Let him hold his fingers thus.
# Not to move; to halt; to stop.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:And damned be him that first cries, "Hold , enough!"
#(lb) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:Our force by land hath nobly held .
# To remain ; to control an excretory bodily function.
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(lb) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
#(lb) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
#*1776 , (Thomas Jefferson) et al.'', ''(United States Declaration of Independence) :
#*:We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
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#(lb) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
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#To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
#*Bible, (Psalms) lxxxiii.1:
#*:Hold not thy peace, and be not still.
#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
#*:Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, / Shall hold their course.
#To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
#*Bible, ii.15:
#*:Stand fast and hold the traditions which ye have been taught.
#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#*:But still he held his purpose to depart.
#(lb) To restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back.
#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#*:His dauntless heart would fain have held / From weeping, but his eyes rebelled.
To win one's own service game.
To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
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, title= (lb) To derive right or title.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:My crown is absolute, and holds of none.
*1817 , (William Hazlitt), ''
*:His imagination holds immediately from nature.
A grasp or grip.
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, title= Something reserved or kept.
The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
* 2004 , Zoe Diana Draelos, Hair Care: An Illustrated Dermatologic Handbook (page 221)
(wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
(gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
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(gambling) The wager amount, the total hold .
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(tennis) An instance of .
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A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
(video games, dated) A pause facility.
* 1983 , New Generation Software, Knot in 3D (video game instruction leaflet)
* 1987 ?, Imagine Software, Legend of Kage (video game instruction leaflet)
(nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold ).
(label) To occupy fully, to take up all of.
* (Tobias Smollett), translator, (Don Quixote) , part 2, book 5, chapter 4:
* (Charles Dickens), , chapter 38:
(label) To add contents to (a container, cavity or the like) so that it is full.
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, title= * 1950 , , The Bachelors of Broken Hill , chapter 11:
* 2005 , (Wendy Coakley-Thompson), , 2006 edition, ISBN 0758207484, page 10 [http://google.com/books?id=D8d9M2Lhe3IC&pg=PA10&dq=fill]:
* 2006 , (Gilbert Morris), Sante Fe Woman , , page 95 [http://google.com/books?id=LepY_wtPjvIC&pg=PA95&dq=%22filled+his+plate%22]:
To enter (something), making it full.
* 1910 May 13, John C. Sherwin, opinion, Delashmutt et al. ''v.'' et al.'', reprinted in volume 126, ''(North Western Reporter) , page 359, at 360:
* 2004 , Peter Westen, The Logic of Consent , , ISBN 0754624072, page 322 [http://google.com/books?id=17bAKRvHBkcC&pg=PA322&dq=%22as+the+crowd+filled%22]:
(label) To become full.
(label) To become pervaded with something.
(label) To satisfy or obey (an order, request or requirement).
(label) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
* 1866 , , The Negro , pages 18–19 [http://google.com/books?id=E0N-AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA19&dq=filled]:
* 1891 January 23, Allen Morse, opinion, Lawrence ''v.'' Hanley'', reprinted in volume 47, ''Northwestern Reporter , page 753, at 755:
(label) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
* "Intimate Diagnosis of Diseased Teeth", in Items of Interest: A Monthly Magazine of Dental Art, Science and Literature , volume 13, number 11, November 1891, page 657 [http://google.com/books?id=eS21AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA657&dq=%22filled+the+molar%22]:
(label) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
* Bible, Matthew xv. 33
* Francis Bacon
To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
(label) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
An amount that fills a container.
The filling of a container or area.
Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
(label) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
* 2008 , Martha E. Green, Pioneers in Pith Helmets
As proper nouns the difference between hold and fill
is that hold is moon while fill is .hold
English
(wikipedia hold)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , (etyl) (m), (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
citation, passage=She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.}}
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The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held , one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
Antonyms
* releaseDerived terms
* be left holding the baby * holdall * hold a candle * hold a grudge * hold accountable * hold back * hold court * hold down * holder * holdfast * hold forth * holding * hold it * hold off * hold on * hold on to * hold one's breath * hold one's fire * hold one's horses * hold one's liquor * hold one's own * hold one's peace * hold out * hold over * hold responsible * hold someone's feet to the fire * hold the cards * hold the fort * hold the line * hold to account * hold up * hold-ups * hold water * hold with the hare and run with the hounds * uphold * withhold * See also'' held''' ''and'' ' holdingNoun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}
- Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- We have a hold here for you.
- Sculpturing gels provide stiffer hold than styling gels, which provide better hold than mousses.
- He got him in a tight hold and pinned him to the mat.
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- So I felt my way down the passage back to the vault, and recked not of the darkness, nor of Blackbeard and his crew, if only I could lay my lips to liquor. Thus I groped about the barrels till near the top of the stack my hand struck on the spile of a keg, and drawing it, I got my mouth to the hold .
- A hold facility is available; H holds, and S restarts.
- SCREEN 5 — Perhaps the toughest — going like the clappers sometimes works but generally you'll have to be smarter than that. If things get a little too hectic and you don't even have time to reach the HOLD key, try taking a short rest below the top of the stairs.
Derived terms
* foothold * handhold * household * no holds barred * on hold * stronghold * threshhold * military hold * personal holdReferences
See also
* beholdEtymology 3
Alteration (due to (m)) of (m). Cognate with (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Put that in the hold .
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- And now that I have given the one chapter to the theme that so filled my heart, and so often made it ache and ache again, I pass on, unhindered, to the event that had impended over me longer yet.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
- She continued to frown as she filled Bony's cup and added brandy to her own.
- She forgave him the pain as he filled' the cavity in her back molar. Three weeks later, she let him ' fill a more intimate cavity.
- Grat Herendeen was the first man, a huge man with his bull whip coiled and over his shoulder seeming almost a part of him. He grinned at her as she filled his plate with the eggs and motioned toward the bacon. "Help yourself, Grat."
- In the evening of the 14th of July, there was a rainfall of 3 or 3½ inches in that locality. The water filled the ditch so full that it overflowed the levees on both sides in many places.
- As the crowd filled the aisles, S repeated loudly what he had announced upon entering the stadium: 'I don't want anyone to touch me, and I will call the police if anyone does.'
- It is impossible to resist the conclusion, which experience and history tend to prove, that, the continuous movement of such a vast body of mankind has been influenced by natural laws, that, the negro has filled the position for which he is fitted by nature, and, that, his services were brought into use when the emergency arose necessitating his employment.
- The board of supervisors called a specal(SIC) election to fill the office, and at such special election Henry C. Andrews was elected judge of probate to fill out the said term.
- Be that as it may, had the disturbance continued after our having filled the molar, and presuming that nothing had been done to the bicuspid, we might have been still as far as ever from knowing where the trouble lay.
- Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
- Things that are sweet and fat are more filling .
Synonyms
* pervadeAntonyms
* (add contents to a container or cavity) empty * (to become full) emptyDerived terms
{{der3, backfill , filler , fill in , filling , filling station , fill in the blank , fill one's face , fill one's hand , fill out , fill someone's shoes , fill the bill , fill up , refill}}Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill .
- ''The mixer returned to the plant for another fill .
- That machine can do 20 fills a minute.
- This paint program supports lines, circles, and textured fills .
- The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction.
Derived terms
{{der3, , fill soil , , flood fill , landfill , , seed fill}}Etymology 3
See (m).Noun
(en noun)- (Mortimer)
- It was a challenge to learn to harness him, guide him slowly back between the fills of the carriage, then to fasten the right buckles and snaps, making the harness and buggy all ready for travel to church or to town.