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hold1 1. Wrestling a way of seizing one's opponent 2. Music a pause or fermata 3. a. a tenure or holding, esp of land b. (in combination): leasehold; freehold hold2 the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo hold [hōld] (aerospace engineering) A scheduled or unscheduled pause in a testing or launching sequence or countdown of a missile or space vehicle. (computer science) To retain information in a computer storage device for further use after it has been initially utilized. (electronics) To maintain storage elements at equilibrium voltages in a charge storage tube by electron bombardment. (engineering) The interior of a ship or plane, especially the cargo compartment. (industrial engineering) A therblig, or basic operation, in time-and-motion study in which the hand or other body member maintains an object in a fixed position and location. (mechanical engineering) A machine motion that is halted by an operator or interlock until it is restarted. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Who could hold anger against such a one as thou art? I knew that the island was not so large but that I could easily find the sea if I did but move in a straight line, but there came the difficulty as there was no way in which I could direct my course and hold it, the sun, of course, being always directly above my head, and the trees so thickly set that I could see no distant object which might serve to guide me in a straight line. Other birds, said Solomon, omitted to line their nests with mud, and as a result they did not hold water. |
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