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Onhold vs Inhold - What's the difference?

onhold | inhold |

As verbs the difference between onhold and inhold

is that onhold is to hold on (to) while inhold is to contain, hold in.

onhold

English

Verb

  • (rare) To hold on (to).
  • *1882 , Keningale Robert Cook, The king of Kent :
    • She leaped and trembled; still onheld his gripe, And gnawed her waning life.
  • *2008 , An Apple A day:
    • Because of economic downturn, I onhold my dream first and use my lovely office's notebook IBM Thinkpad T60P as my best friend.
  • (rare) To hold on.
  • *1919 , Middlesbrough (England). Education Committee, Proceedings :
    • Resolved, That the Minutes of the Meeting of the Secondary Committee onheld 8 July, 1918, be and they are hereby confirmed.

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    inhold

    English

    Verb

  • to contain, hold in.
  • *2002 , Brian Massumi, A shock to thought: expression after Deleuze and Guattari :
    • Sound implicates these obscure tethers, which connect sound to noise, thereby giving sound its sense. The implicated difference inholds an obscure reserve of sense.
  • to possess inherently, contain in oneself
    • The light which the sun inholds and casts forth. ? Sit Walter Raleigh.

    Synonyms

    *(l)

    Related terms

    * inholding * inholder ----