Holding vs Touching - What's the difference?
holding | touching |
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,
The act by which something is touched.
* 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
As a proper noun holding
is .As a verb touching is
.As an adjective touching is
provoking sadness and pity.As a noun touching is
the act by which something is touched.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 * inholdingtouching
English
Verb
(head)Synonyms
* emotional, moving, sadNoun
(en noun)- But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings , and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.