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Snooze vs Onhold - What's the difference?

snooze | onhold |

As verbs the difference between snooze and onhold

is that snooze is to sleep, especially briefly; to nap while onhold is to hold on (to).

As a noun snooze

is a period of sleep; a nap.

snooze

English

Verb

(intransitive)
  • To sleep, especially briefly; to nap.
    • The boss caught him snoozing at his desk.
  • To pause; to postpone for a short while.
  • * 2003 , Ken Slovak, Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 (page 110)
    • It enables you to dismiss the reminder, dismiss all reminders, open the highlighted item in the Reminder dialog, and snooze the reminder. Snoozing a reminder is similar to hitting the snooze button on an alarm clock
  • * 2007 , Sue Mosher, Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming (page 359)
    • Let's say you want to see all your reminders, but you don't want it to be too easy to snooze the ones for important items.
  • * 2011 , Dan Gookin, Bill Loguidice, Motorola ATRIX For Dummies (page 40)
    • To snooze the phone, press and release the power button.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A period of sleep; a nap.
    • The cat enjoys taking a snooze on a sunny windowsill.
  • Something boring.
    • The whole movie was a snooze .

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * catnap * nap * shuteye * slumber

    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)