Hold vs Wind - 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.
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#*: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.
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(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 ).
(countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
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, title= Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
(countable, uncountable) The ability to exert oneself without feeling short of breath.
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news of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip - used with catch often in past tense
(India, and, Japan) One of the five basic elements (see ).
(uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
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A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".
* Bible, (Ezekiel) xxxvii. 9
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A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
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A bird, the dotterel.
To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
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To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
(reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
(British) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
To perceive or follow by scent.
To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
(lb) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
(lb) To tighten the spring of the clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
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To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms.
(lb) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.
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*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:He therefore turned him to the steep and rocky path whichwinded through the thickets of wild boxwood and other low aromatic shrubs.
*(Thomas Gray) (1716-1771)
*:The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
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*1969 , (Paul McCartney)
*:The long and winding road / That leads to your door / Will never disappear.
To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:to turn and wind a fiery Pegasus
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*:Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please / And wind all other witnesses.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.
To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:You have contrivedto wind / Yourself into a power tyrannical.
*Government of Tongues
*:little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse
To cover or surround with something coiled about.
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The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
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In transitive terms the difference between hold and wind
is that hold is to bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions while wind is to tighten the spring of the clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.As an adjective hold
is gracious; friendly; faithful; true.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
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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 .
Statistics
*wind
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) ; ultimately probably cognate with (weather).Noun
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- If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent.
- Their instruments were various in their kind, / Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind .
- Come from the four winds , O breath, and breathe upon these slain.
- Nor think thou with wind / Of airy threats to awe.
Synonyms
* (movement of air) breeze, draft, gale; see also * (flatus) gas (US); see alsoDerived terms
* break wind * close to the wind * crosswind * downwind * fair wind * foul wind * get one's wind back * get the wind up * get wind of * headwind * like the wind * long-winded * pass wind * sail close to the wind * scattered to the four winds * second wind * see which way the wind is blowing * sow the wind and reap the whirlwind * tailwind * the winds * trade wind * take the wind out of someone's sails * three sheets to the wind * throw caution to the wind * throw to the wind * twist in the wind * upwind * whirlwind * willow in the wind * windbag * wind band * wind-blown * windboard * windbound * wind-break, windbreak * windbreaker * wind-breaker * windburn * wind chart * wind-cheater, windcheater * windchill * wind chimes * wind cone, windcone * wind egg * windfall * wind farm * windflaw * wind force * wind-gauge * wind gun * wind instrument * windily * windiness * windjammer * windless * windmill * window * windpipe * wind power * wind rose * wind scale * windscreen * wind shake * windshield * wind sleeve, windsleeve * wind sock, windsock * winds of change * windstorm * windsurf * windsurfer * windsurfing * wind-swept, windswept * wind tunnel * windward * windySee also
* blizzard * breeze * cyclone * gale * gust * hurricane * nor'easter, northeaster * northwester * sou'easter, southeaster * sou'wester, southwester * storm * tempest * tornado * twister * typhoon * zephyrVerb
(en verb)- The boxer was winded during round two.
- I can’t run another step — I’m winded .
- The hounds winded the game.