Holdback vs Deter - What's the difference?
holdback | deter |
restraint (act or result of holding back, device that restrains)
The projection or loop, on the thill of a vehicle, to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going downhill, or in backing.
The strap or part of the harness so used.
(Webster 1913)
To prevent something from happening.
To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 10.
As a noun holdback
is restraint (act or result of holding back, device that restrains).As a verb deter is
to prevent something from happening.holdback
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Noun
(en noun)deter
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Verb
(deterr)- we have in following enquiry, attempted to throw some light upon subjects, from which uncertainty has hitherto deterred the wise