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Terms vs Offhold - What's the difference?

terms | offhold |

As a noun terms

is .

As a verb offhold is

(archaic) to retain.

terms

English

Noun

(head)

    • Statistics

    * ----

    offhold

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • (archaic) To retain.
  • To hold off; prevent; refrain; avoid; shun.
  • *1950 , Washington Institute of Medicine, General practice clinics :
    • A scleral rim should be maintained in contact lenses to off-hold and balance the corneal portion from the cornea, preventing exertion of any pressure.
  • *1968 , Titus Maccius Plautus, Paul Nixon, Plautus :
    • No, Love, you must be shunned by every means, offheld and offstood afar, for the man that has fallen headlong into love comes o greater grief than if he cast himself off a cliff.
  • *2009 , A.J.J. Mekking, Eric Roose, The global built environment as a representation of realities :
    • The mighty foundation of massive natural stone, in the Mediterranean realm, in India as well as in Middle- and South America, almost always represents the world of the toiling earthlings who have to off-hold the demons of depth as well as to support their god-miming oppressors.