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holding
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Word definitions for holding in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Holding \Hold"ing\, n. The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining. A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another. That which holds, binds, or influences. --Burke. The burden or chorus of a song. [Obs.] --Shak. Holding note (Mus.), a note ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., verbal noun of hold . As a football (soccer) penalty, from 1866. Meaning "property held," especially stock shares, is from 1570s.
Usage examples of holding.
Scott Velie commenced his prepared speech as he sat, holding in abeyance his moment for rising, which was timed to occur at the delivery of a key sentence halfway into his brief statement.
And since according to those same canonical institutions all such are to be condemned as heretics, but you holding to wiser counsel and returning to the bosom of our Holy Mother the Church have abjured, as we have said, all vile heresy, therefore we absolve you from the sentence of excommunication by which you were deservedly bound as one hateful to the Church of God.
The water boiled around Abo as the shark thrashed, but Abo stayed on and, holding the stick like handlebars, he pulled back to keep the shark from diving and steered him into the shallow water of the reef, where the other men waited with their knives drawn.
Yet during abreaction at one point she was acting out holding the knife and doing the slashing.
Each time he returned to the car, he half expected the girl to be gone, but she sat quietly holding the baby and absently stared toward infinity.
When I saw Nanette in my arms, beaming with love, and Marton near the bed, holding a candle, with her eyes reproaching us with ingratitude because we did not speak to her, who, by accepting my first caresses, had encouraged her sister to follow her example, I realized all my happiness.
Police SWAT teams in chic basic black accessorized with tear gas and semiautomatic weapons are charging in past the doorman holding the door in his gold braid.
The gusts grew stronger, throwing Acies up against the wall and holding him there.
Holding back as they reached a less-frequented street, Harry saw Alban enter the Acme Florists, which was near the middle of the block.
Lizzie who sat patiently on a stile, holding the bunch of green-veined snow-drops and yellow aconites she had gathered as they wandered.
NEW ORLEANSThe American Tonsil, Adenoid and Vas Deferens Society is holding their fifth annual convention this week in the Old Royal Maison New Orleans.
It was not a large affair: a reception desk, a bull pen for admin and communications, a hallway that led back to the holding cells, and an office for the sheriff himself.
I found a corner of the glass door before which there was no curtain, and on applying my eye to the place I saw my young adventurer holding his conquest in his arms on the bed.
Cut to Agar, inventor of the atomic napalm, holding Mara Corday on a hill above the burning city and the charring monster.
Pewt dident bring those close back in about 5 minits he wood go up and boot him down to our house and back agen and jest then Mister Purington came into the yard holding Pewt by the ear.