Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context idiomatic transitive English) To restrain; to check. 2 (context idiomatic transitive English) To continue, to hold and to manage well.
WordNet
v. keep; "She manages to hold down two jobs"
restrain; "please hold down the noise so that the neighbors can sleep"
Wikipedia
Holdown (hold-down, hold down) or tie-down in structural engineering refers to the steel device or hardware that is installed at the end of a plywood shear wall. The holdowns provide uplift resistance against the overturning moment imposed on the wall due to "in-plane" lateral load applied at the top of the wall. A hold-down may also refer to clamping device used to anchor a pipe to a structural steel element or concrete floor or allow movement of the pipe in an axial direction.
At the bottom, the holdown is connected to the concrete foundation or structural slab by an embedded or epoxied anchor bolt. At the top, the holdown is connected to a wood post with screws, nails or bolts.
Hold down may refer to:
- pinning hold, in grappling.
- hold down, a steel device in structural engineering.
- ''' Hold fast, a type of clamp on a woodworking workbench.
Usage examples of "hold down".
But if I hold down the Alt key and then hit the F2 function button at the top of my keyboard, I am presented with a fresh, blank, black screen with a login prompt at the top of it.
Then you line up five more Candidate Members, and that makes you a Senior Member and you're eligible to hold down Party offices, even up to the National Executive Committee, to which you'll undoubtedly belong as head of the Women's Auxiliary.
They'll just be the best people in the country to hold down national office.
Scattered over the plain were assorted varieties of succulent spurges, some spiny, some glossy with wax to hold down water loss.
When Alexander conquered the East he set to work to obliterate the distinction of Greek and barbarian, no doubt because his Greek and Macedonian army was too small to hold down so vast an empire by force.
He's part of the domestic group that wants to hold down our own Fleet expenditures to keep from `provoking' Haven, and he genuinely believes we could avoid war with them if the military only stopped terrifying Parliament with scare stories about Havenite preparations.
Sometimes he'd stand across the street and hold down surveillance.
Lester Tourville would have done everything humanly possible to hold down the noncombatant death count.
If we're going to keep this volcano from blowing up again, we need more weight to hold down the lid.