| hold | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip |
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| (noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: grip, handgrip, handle |
| (noun) a cell in a jail or prison | Synonyms: keep |
| (noun) the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo | Synonyms: cargo area, cargo deck, cargo hold, storage area |
| (noun) a stronghold | - |
| (noun) power by which something or someone is affected or dominated | - |
| (noun) understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something | Synonyms: appreciation, grasp |
| (noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: custody, detainment, detention |
| (noun) time during which some action is awaited | Synonyms: delay, postponement, time lag, wait |
| holdall | (noun) a capacious bag or basket | Synonyms: carryall, tote, tote bag |
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| holder | (noun) a holding device | - |
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| (noun) the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it | Synonyms: bearer |
| (noun) a person who holds something | - |
| holdfast | (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastener, fastening, fixing |
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| holding | (noun) the act of retaining something | Synonyms: keeping, retention |
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| (noun) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone | Synonyms: belongings, property |
| holdout | (noun) the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later | - |
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| (noun) a refusal by a negotiator to come to terms in the hope of obtaining a better deal | - |
| (noun) a negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms | - |
| holdover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: hangover |
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| (noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: hangover |
| holdup | (noun) robbery at gunpoint | Synonyms: armed robbery, heist, stickup |
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| (noun) the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time | Synonyms: delay |
| hole | (noun) an opening deliberately made in or through something | - |
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| (noun) one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course | Synonyms: golf hole |
| (noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: cakehole, gob, maw, trap, yap |
| (noun) an opening into or through something | - |
| (noun) a depression hollowed out of solid matter | Synonyms: hollow |
| (noun) an unoccupied space | - |
| (noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle |
| (noun) a fault | - |
| holibut | (noun) marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes | Synonyms: halibut |
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| holiday | (noun) leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure | Synonyms: vacation |
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| (noun) a day on which work is suspended by law or custom | - |
| holidaymaker | (noun) someone who travels for pleasure | Synonyms: tourer, tourist |
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| holiness | (noun) the quality of being holy | Synonyms: sanctitude, sanctity |
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| holism | (noun) the theory that the parts of any whole cannot exist and cannot be understood except in their relation to the whole | Synonyms: holistic theory |
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| holla | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| hollandaise | (noun) eggs and butter with lemon juice | - |
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| holler | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| (noun) a small valley between mountains | Synonyms: hollow |
| hollering | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| hollo | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| holloa | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| hollow | (noun) a depression hollowed out of solid matter | Synonyms: hole |
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| (noun) a small valley between mountains | Synonyms: holler |
| (noun) a cavity or space in something | - |
| holloware | (noun) silverware serving dishes | Synonyms: hollowware |
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| hollowness | (noun) the property of having a sunken area | - |
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| (noun) the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical | Synonyms: falseness, insincerity |
| (noun) the state of being hollow: having an empty space within | - |
| hollowware | (noun) silverware serving dishes | Synonyms: holloware |
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| holly | (noun) any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges | - |
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| hollygrape | (noun) ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries | Synonyms: holly-leaves barberry, Mahonia aquifolium, mountain grape, Oregon grape, Oregon holly grape |
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| hollyhock | (noun) any of various tall plants of the genus Alcea; native to the Middle East but widely naturalized and cultivated for its very large variously colored flowers | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea | Synonyms: althaea, althea |
| holmium | (noun) a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds | Synonyms: atomic number 67, Ho |
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| holocaust | (noun) an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire) | - |
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| holocephalan | (noun) fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail | Synonyms: holocephalian |
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| holocephalian | (noun) fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail | Synonyms: holocephalan |
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| hologram | (noun) the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography | Synonyms: holograph |
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| holograph | (noun) the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography | Synonyms: hologram |
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| (noun) handwritten book or document | Synonyms: manuscript |
| holography | (noun) the branch of optics that deals with the use of coherent light from a laser in order to make a hologram that can then be used to create a three-dimensional image | - |
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| holometabola | (noun) insects that undergo complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabola |
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| holometabolism | (noun) complete metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: holometaboly |
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| holometaboly | (noun) complete metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: holometabolism |
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| holonym | (noun) a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part | Synonyms: whole name |
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| holonymy | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between a whole and its parts | Synonyms: whole to part relation |
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| holophyte | (noun) an organism that produces its own food by photosynthesis | - |
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| holothurian | (noun) echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders | Synonyms: sea cucumber |
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| holotype | (noun) the original specimen from which the description of a new species is made | Synonyms: type specimen |
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| holster | (noun) a sheath (usually leather) for carrying a handgun | - |
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| (noun) a belt with loops or slots for carrying small hand tools | - |
| holy | (noun) a sacred place of pilgrimage | Synonyms: holy place, sanctum |
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| holystone | (noun) a soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship | - |
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