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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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| A powerful true story about coming of age and learning to define oneself, as surely as it is a no-holds-barred firsthand account of the terrors and challenges of the European Theater of World War II, Time at War is highly recommended. Co-written by recognized consumer culture historian Stuart Ewen, Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality is a plain-terms, no-holds-barred look at the long-running practice of science warped to serve prejudice. The magazine combines no-holds-barred sex advice with explicit sexual photos that would be labeled child porn in more "traditional" countries. |
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