Holding vs Grapple - What's the difference?
holding | grapple |
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,
To seize something and hold it firmly.
(figuratively) to ponder and intensely evaluate a problem; normally used with "with".
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To use a grapple.
To wrestle or tussle.
To fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join indissolubly.
* Hakluyt
* Shakespeare
(nautical) A device consisting of iron claws, attached to the end of a rope, used for grasping and holding an enemy ship prior to boarding; a grapnel or grappling iron.
(uncountable) The act of grappling.
A close hand-to-hand struggle.
As nouns the difference between holding and grapple
is that holding is something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds while grapple is a device consisting of iron claws, attached to the end of a rope, used for grasping and holding an enemy ship prior to boarding; a grapnel or grappling iron.As verbs the difference between holding and grapple
is that holding is present participle of lang=en while grapple is to seize something and hold it firmly.As a proper noun Holding
is {{surname|lang=de}.holding
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.
Coordinate terms
* (determination) findingVerb
(head)Derived terms
* holding the ball * holding the cards * holding the man * inholdinggrapple
English
(wikipedia grapple)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (see below). More at (l).Verb
(grappl)- The gallies were grappled to the Centurion.
- Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.