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{
"Holectypina":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a suborder of extinct sea urchins (order Exocycloida) having a central peristome, an excentric periproct, an Aristotle's lantern, and nonpetaloid ambulacra and found in Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Eocene strata":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Holectypus , genus of sea urchins (from hol- + Greek ektypos worked in relief) + -ina":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"h\u014d\u02cclekt\u0259\u02c8p\u012bn\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113505",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"Holgu\u00edn":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"city in the plateau region of eastern Cuba population 286,000":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"(h)\u022fl-\u02c8g\u0113n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111308",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Holi":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a Hindu spring festival characterized by boisterous and usually ribald revelry including especially the throwing of colored water and powder":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Hindi hol\u012b , from Sanskrit holik\u0101":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014dl\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-174116",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Holston":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"river 140 miles (225 kilometers) long in eastern Tennessee flowing southwest to unite with the French Broad River forming the Tennessee River":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014dl-st\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135053",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Holt":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a small woods : copse":[],
"Harold Edward 1908\u20131967 Australian politician; prime minister (1966\u201367)":[],
"Luther Emmett 1855\u20131924 American pediatrician":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German holz wood, Greek klados twig":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014dlt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-194419",
"type":[
"biographical name",
"noun"
]
},
"Holy Thursday":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": ascension day":[],
": maundy thursday":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104719",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Holy Trinity":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a group of three things or people regarded as having fundamental importance or prominence in a particular place or area of interest or activity":[
"By September, the region's famous foliage is emerging, the air is crisp, and it's prime time for the first two sports of the Woodstock Holy Trinity of fishing, biking, and skiing.",
"\u2014 National Geographic",
"I grew up in a town so white that our celebrity holy trinity consisted of Martha Stewart, Paul Newman, and Jason Robards.",
"\u2014 Robert Wilder",
"Vanilla, chocolate and strawberry, the holy trinity of young ice-cream purists \u2026",
"\u2014 Pierre Franey",
"\u2026 mocks the holy trinity of the art world\u2014sex, drugs and pretension.",
"\u2014 Maria Simson"
],
": the combination of onion, bell pepper, and celery as it is employed in Cajun and Creole cuisine":[
"Almost every traditional Cajun recipe calls for the merged flavors of the Holy Trinity to serve as its underpinning, rendering the three aromatic vegetables the most prized ingredients of all in New Orleans cookery.",
"\u2014 Lia Ryerson"
],
": trinity sense 1":[
"According to legend, St. Patrick used the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity to the Celts.",
"\u2014 Rosemary Ellen Guiley"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-085148",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Holy Week":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the week before Easter during which the last days of Christ's life are commemorated":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1710, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181753",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Holy Writ":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a writing or utterance having unquestionable authority":[
"its financial precepts were not necessarily Holy Writ",
"\u2014 Herbert Stein"
],
": bible sense 1":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"Bible",
"Book",
"Good Book",
"Scripture"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054937",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Holy Year":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a Roman Catholic jubilee year":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1699, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092059",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hol hamoed":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Hebrew \u1e25ol ha-moed , literally, the secular portion of the festival":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-185341",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"hold":{
"antonyms":[
"clasp",
"clench",
"grapple",
"grasp",
"grip",
"handgrip",
"handhold"
],
"definitions":{
": a delay in a countdown (as in launching a spacecraft)":[],
": a manner of grasping an opponent in wrestling":[
"applied an illegal hold"
],
": a nonphysical bond that attaches, restrains, or constrains or by which something is affected, controlled, or dominated":[
"trying to tighten her hold on the company's finances",
"has lost its hold on the broad public",
"\u2014 Oscar Cargill"
],
": a sudden motionless posture at the end of a dance":[],
": accommodate":[
"the restaurant holds 400 diners"
],
": advocate , defend":[
"\u2014 usually used in negative constructions I hold no brief for cartels and market allocations \u2014 J. D. Upham"
],
": an order or indication that something is to be reserved or delayed":[
"I asked the library to put a hold on the book for me."
],
": confinement , custody":[],
": fermata":[],
": full comprehension":[
"get hold of exactly what is happening",
"\u2014 J. P. Lyford"
],
": full or immediate control : possession":[
"get hold of yourself",
"wants to get hold of a road map"
],
": in a state of interruption during a telephone call when one party switches to another line without totally disconnecting the other party":[
"put me on hold while he talked to his supervisor"
],
": in a state or period of indefinite suspension":[
"put our plans on hold"
],
": prison":[],
": something that may be grasped as a support":[
"searched for holds in the rock"
],
": stronghold sense 1":[],
": such as":[
"hold the train"
],
": the act or the manner of grasping something (as in the hands or arms) : grip":[
"released his hold on the handle",
"took hold of the rope"
],
": the cargo compartment of a plane":[],
": the time between the onset and the release (see release entry 2 sense 3c ) of a vocal articulation (see articulation sense 3b )":[],
": to agree with or approve of":[
"don't hold with violence"
],
": to assemble for and carry on the activity of":[
"held a convention"
],
": to avoid emitting or letting out":[
"how long can you hold your breath"
],
": to be left empty-handed":[],
": to be or remain valid : apply":[
"the rule holds in most cases",
"\u2014 often used in the phrase hold true"
],
": to be the center of attention among friends or admirers":[],
": to bear alone a responsibility that should have been shared by others":[
"She was left holding the bag for their mistakes."
],
": to bear or carry oneself":[
"asked him to hold still"
],
": to bear the pressure of : support":[
"can the roof hold all of that weight"
],
": to cause to be carried on : conduct":[
"will hold a seminar"
],
": to continue in the same way or to the same degree : last entry 1":[
"hopes the weather will hold",
"\u2014 often used with up"
],
": to delay temporarily the handling of":[
"please hold all my calls"
],
": to derive right or title":[
"\u2014 often used with of or from lands held of the Crown"
],
": to enclose and keep in a container or within bounds : contain":[
"the jug holds one gallon",
"this corral will not hold all of the horses"
],
": to engage one's hand with another's especially as an expression of affection":[],
": to forbear an intended or threatened action : halt , pause":[
"\u2014 often used as a command"
],
": to give firm assent to : adhere to strongly":[
"holds to his promise"
],
": to go ahead as one has been going":[
"held south for several miles"
],
": to have a dominant influence : rule":[],
": to have as a mark of distinction":[
"holds the record for the 100-yard dash",
"holds a PhD"
],
": to have as a privilege or position of responsibility":[
"hold a professorship"
],
": to have illicit drug material in one's possession":[],
": to have in the mind or express as a judgment, opinion, or belief":[
"I hold the view that this is wrong",
"hold a grudge",
"holding that it is nobody's business but his",
"\u2014 Jack Olsen",
"\u2014 often used with against in America they hold everything you say against you \u2014 Paul McCartney"
],
": to have possession or ownership of or have at one's disposal":[
"holds property worth millions",
"the bank holds the title to the car"
],
": to hold responsible":[],
": to keep back from use":[
"ask them to hold a room for us",
"I'll have a hot dog, and hold the mustard"
],
": to keep silent : keep one's thoughts to oneself":[],
": to keep under restraint":[
"hold price increases to a minimum"
],
": to maintain (a certain condition, situation, or course of action) without change":[
"hold a course due east"
],
": to maintain a firm position":[],
": to maintain a grasp on something : remain fastened to something":[
"the anchor held in the rough sea"
],
": to maintain one's position : prove equal to opposition":[
"prove I can hold my own with the best of them"
],
": to maintain position : refuse to give ground":[
"the defensive line is holding"
],
": to maintain the current position or situation":[
"hold the line on prices"
],
": to make liable or accountable or bound to an obligation":[
"I'll hold you to your promise"
],
": to prevent free expression of":[
"hold your temper"
],
": to prevent from leaving or getting away":[
"hold the train"
],
": to prevent from some action":[
"ordered the troops to hold fire",
"the only restraining motive which may hold the hand of a tyrant",
"\u2014 Thomas Jefferson"
],
": to prevent oneself from breathing temporarily":[],
": to produce or sponsor especially as a public exhibition":[
"will hold an art show"
],
": to qualify for comparison with":[
"doesn't hold a candle to what she has suffered"
],
": to slow down or stop for a moment":[
"\u2014 usually used in the imperative"
],
": to speak at length : expatiate":[
"holding forth on the subject of politics"
],
": to stand up under criticism or analysis":[
"Their version of events doesn't hold water ."
],
": to stop counting during a countdown":[],
": to support in a particular position or keep from falling or moving":[
"hold me up so I can see",
"hold the ladder steady",
"a clamp holds the whole thing together",
"hold your head up"
],
": to take care of usual affairs":[
"is holding the fort until the manager returns"
],
": to think of in a particular way : regard":[
"were held in high esteem"
],
": to wait in anxious anticipation":[],
": touch sense 8":[
"\u2014 used with of tried to get hold of you, but you never answered your phone"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"Hold the rail so you won't fall.",
"He was holding a large package in his arms.",
"Would you hold this for me",
"She showed him the correct way to hold the racket.",
"Some people just don't like to be held .",
"He held her close and kissed her.",
"He held the pen in his mouth while he dialed the number.",
"Hold the pen upright when you write.",
"She picked up the trophy and held it over her head.",
"You have to hold the button down for several seconds."
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1591, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English holden , going back to Old English healdan , going back to Germanic *hald-a- , whence also Old High German haltan \"to protect, guard, hold,\" Old Saxon haldan , Old Norse halda , Gothic haldan \"to tend, graze (cattle)\"; perhaps, if -d- (going back to Indo-European *-d h - ) is a root extension with resultative meaning, a derivative from the Indo-European base *kel- \"drive, urge\" (whence Greek kel\u00e9sthai \"to urge, exhort\"), with sense shift from \"pasture\" to \"keep, protect\" to \"hold\" \u2014 more at accelerate":"Verb and Noun",
"alteration of hole":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014dld"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for hold Verb contain , hold , accommodate mean to have or be capable of having within. contain implies the actual presence of a specified substance or quantity within something. the can contains a quart of oil hold implies the capacity of containing or the usual or permanent function of containing or keeping. the bookcase will hold all my textbooks accommodate stresses holding without crowding or inconvenience. the hall can accommodate 500 people",
"synonyms":[
"clench",
"cling (to)",
"clutch",
"grip"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060027",
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
"hold (all/all of) the cards":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to be in control of a situation and have the power to make decisions":[
"It's your decision. You're holding all the cards ."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162635",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"hold (back)":{
"antonyms":[
"clog",
"cramp",
"embarrass",
"encumber",
"fetter",
"hamper",
"handcuff",
"handicap",
"hinder",
"hobble",
"hog-tie",
"hold up",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"obstruct",
"shackle",
"short-circuit",
"stymie",
"tie up",
"trammel"
],
"definitions":{
": something held back":[],
": something that retains or restrains":[],
": the act of holding back":[],
": to hinder the progress or achievement of : restrain":[],
": to keep from advancing to the next stage, grade, or level":[],
": to keep oneself in check":[],
": to refrain from revealing or parting with":[
"held back important information"
],
": to refrain from revealing or parting with something":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"there'll be a holdback on production until the new machinery is fully installed",
"the only holdback to starting the new job is my contractual commitment to my current position",
"Verb",
"the only thing holding Joe back from joining the swim team is lack of transportation",
"held back her tears until she was alone",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But for now, teachers should continue moving forward with everything required under the law as if the holdback provision will be in place at the end of next school year. \u2014 Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al , 8 June 2021",
"Now, third graders in the 2021-22 school year will remain subject to a holdback provision. \u2014 Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al , 27 May 2021",
"In Mississippi, whose third-grade reading law Alabama\u2019s was modeled after, the state board of education suspended the holdback provision for the current school year only according to a department of education spokesperson. \u2014 Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al , 20 May 2021",
"In the case of escrow, a holdback is created at closing, which means the seller does not receive all the funds. \u2014 Robin Gagnon, Forbes , 11 May 2021",
"Typical issues are: The amount and length of the escrow holdback for indemnification claims. \u2014 Gary Miller, The Denver Post , 27 Oct. 2019",
"The Connecticut Department of Education sent Canterbury town officials a letter saying that the additional holdback of $250,000 would incur a $500,000 Education Cost Sharing penalty. \u2014 Denise Coffey, Courant Community , 3 Apr. 2018",
"Legislation is being discussed to do away with the penalty associated with cuts made after holdbacks were announced. \u2014 Denise Coffey, Courant Community , 3 Apr. 2018",
"Negotiators from the House had agreed near the end of the regular session to lower the holdback to $100 million. \u2014 Lsu Manship School News Service, NOLA.com , 13 June 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The dam is used not merely to generate power and hold back water reservoirs, but also to power a very special server hub. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"The digital payments specialist has announced layoffs and declared two profit warnings in recent quarters as inflation grinds higher and consumers hold back . \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
"Less than 24 hours later, Fisher called an impromptu news conference Thursday and did not hold back with his displeasure with his former boss when the two were at LSU. \u2014 Ralph D. Russo, Chicago Tribune , 19 May 2022",
"Meanwhile, Teresa's ex-husband Joe Giudice paid tribute to Gia's momentous day on social media and didn't hold back when gushing over his eldest daughter. \u2014 Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com , 8 Jan. 2022",
"The Buckeyes emptied their bench early, but Williams did not hold back . \u2014 Nathan Baird, cleveland , 27 Dec. 2021",
"Britney Spears did not hold back when talking about her family following rumors that her brother, Bryan Spears, was set to attend her and Sam Asghari's wedding last week. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 15 June 2022",
"Producer Laurie Borg did not hold back on his thoughts on the rival period drama. \u2014 Janaya Wecker, Town & Country , 10 June 2022",
"The 4-year-old royal, who stood alongside his big brother Prince George, 8, and big sister Princess Charlotte, 7, didn't hold back at Trooping the Colour, the annual celebration of his great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth's birthday. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 2 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1535, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
"1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014dl(d)-\u02ccbak"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"delay",
"detainment",
"detention",
"holding pattern",
"holdup",
"wait"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035727",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hold (someone or something) in high regard":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to have great respect for (someone or something)":[
"His work is held in high regard ."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-185419",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"hold a quiet conversation":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to talk in an informal and especially private way":[
"a perfect spot to hold a quiet conversation"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015757",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"hold against":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to use (something) as a reason to have a bad opinion of (someone)":[
"He lied to her once, and she still holds it against him.",
"Nobody is going to hold it against you if you don't come."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-210124",
"type":[
"phrasal verb"
]
},
"hold all the aces":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to have a strong advantage over others in a contest, competition, etc.":[
"As the strike continues into its second week, it appears that the company holds all the aces in its negotiations with the strikers."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-112416",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"hold away":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to continue on one's way":[],
": to remain at a distance : hold off":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-215050",
"type":[
"intransitive verb"
]
},
"hold back":{
"antonyms":[
"clog",
"cramp",
"embarrass",
"encumber",
"fetter",
"hamper",
"handcuff",
"handicap",
"hinder",
"hobble",
"hog-tie",
"hold up",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"obstruct",
"shackle",
"short-circuit",
"stymie",
"tie up",
"trammel"
],
"definitions":{
": something held back":[],
": something that retains or restrains":[],
": the act of holding back":[],
": to hinder the progress or achievement of : restrain":[],
": to keep from advancing to the next stage, grade, or level":[],
": to keep oneself in check":[],
": to refrain from revealing or parting with":[
"held back important information"
],
": to refrain from revealing or parting with something":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"there'll be a holdback on production until the new machinery is fully installed",
"the only holdback to starting the new job is my contractual commitment to my current position",
"Verb",
"the only thing holding Joe back from joining the swim team is lack of transportation",
"held back her tears until she was alone",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But for now, teachers should continue moving forward with everything required under the law as if the holdback provision will be in place at the end of next school year. \u2014 Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al , 8 June 2021",
"Now, third graders in the 2021-22 school year will remain subject to a holdback provision. \u2014 Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al , 27 May 2021",
"In Mississippi, whose third-grade reading law Alabama\u2019s was modeled after, the state board of education suspended the holdback provision for the current school year only according to a department of education spokesperson. \u2014 Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al , 20 May 2021",
"In the case of escrow, a holdback is created at closing, which means the seller does not receive all the funds. \u2014 Robin Gagnon, Forbes , 11 May 2021",
"Typical issues are: The amount and length of the escrow holdback for indemnification claims. \u2014 Gary Miller, The Denver Post , 27 Oct. 2019",
"The Connecticut Department of Education sent Canterbury town officials a letter saying that the additional holdback of $250,000 would incur a $500,000 Education Cost Sharing penalty. \u2014 Denise Coffey, Courant Community , 3 Apr. 2018",
"Legislation is being discussed to do away with the penalty associated with cuts made after holdbacks were announced. \u2014 Denise Coffey, Courant Community , 3 Apr. 2018",
"Negotiators from the House had agreed near the end of the regular session to lower the holdback to $100 million. \u2014 Lsu Manship School News Service, NOLA.com , 13 June 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The dam is used not merely to generate power and hold back water reservoirs, but also to power a very special server hub. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"The digital payments specialist has announced layoffs and declared two profit warnings in recent quarters as inflation grinds higher and consumers hold back . \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
"Less than 24 hours later, Fisher called an impromptu news conference Thursday and did not hold back with his displeasure with his former boss when the two were at LSU. \u2014 Ralph D. Russo, Chicago Tribune , 19 May 2022",
"Meanwhile, Teresa's ex-husband Joe Giudice paid tribute to Gia's momentous day on social media and didn't hold back when gushing over his eldest daughter. \u2014 Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com , 8 Jan. 2022",
"The Buckeyes emptied their bench early, but Williams did not hold back . \u2014 Nathan Baird, cleveland , 27 Dec. 2021",
"Britney Spears did not hold back when talking about her family following rumors that her brother, Bryan Spears, was set to attend her and Sam Asghari's wedding last week. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 15 June 2022",
"Producer Laurie Borg did not hold back on his thoughts on the rival period drama. \u2014 Janaya Wecker, Town & Country , 10 June 2022",
"The 4-year-old royal, who stood alongside his big brother Prince George, 8, and big sister Princess Charlotte, 7, didn't hold back at Trooping the Colour, the annual celebration of his great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth's birthday. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 2 June 2022"
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"Announcing the ban, the government dismissed the demands of food, beverage and consumer goods companies to hold off the restriction to avoid disruptions. \u2014 Reuters, CNN , 1 July 2022",
"After taking a substantial lead after one lap on a hot Saturday afternoon at Mesa Community College, Phoenix South Mountain senior Brian Fair Jr., couldn't hold off Red Mountain's Tyler Mathews in the end. \u2014 Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic , 14 May 2022",
"The pick: O\u2019Ward won in Alabama earlier this month, and is ideally positioned to stay among the leaders and strike in the second half of the race to hold off Newgarden and VeeKay. \u2014 Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY , 27 May 2022",
"Is there a reason Democrats should hold off on the champagne",
"McElroy\u2019s squad battled through a tumultuous fifth inning to hold off a comeback by the Tigers (10-4). \u2014 Colin Bannen, BostonGlobe.com , 14 May 2022",
"Harvin was the 400-meter champion after running a 50.18 to hold off Glenville\u2019s Malik Davis. \u2014 cleveland , 11 May 2022",
"The National Weather Service expects a period of about 24 hours where rain will hold off through the region as a brief area of high pressure builds. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 May 2022",
"The Naperville City Council will hold off authorizing overnight street parking in some neighborhoods where parking on the residential property can be a challenge for residents. \u2014 Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune , 8 June 2022"
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"State high school associations and the N.C.A.A., though, set their own policies, and the N.C.A.A., whose softball rules are written by coaches, commissioners and others closely tied to the game, has become the holdout with the highest profile. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"Chen projects China, the world's last COVID-zero holdout , will mandate regular PCR tests until 2023. \u2014 Grady Mcgregor, Fortune , 31 May 2022",
"The steel mill has for weeks symbolized Ukraine's final holdout in Mariupol. \u2014 Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY , 17 May 2022",
"Hungary\u2019s Prime Minister Viktor Orban\u2014an EU bugbear and pal of Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2014had been the holdout . \u2014 Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ , 31 May 2022",
"But Kyiv said Wednesday that Russian forces have stepped up strikes on the facility, which is also a holdout for a small group of Ukrainian fighters who have refused to surrender. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Germany, in particular, had been a holdout due to its reliance on Russian gas and oil supplies. \u2014 Meredith Deliso, ABC News , 26 Feb. 2022",
"The last of the holdout fighters at the Azovstal steel plant have surrendered, the Russian Defense Ministry said, marking the end of the resistance against Russia\u2019s takeover of the southeastern port city. \u2014 Andrew Jeong, Washington Post , 21 May 2022",
"Sweden, another longtime holdout , is also expected to apply for membership soon. \u2014 Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ , 15 May 2022",
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"Thankfully, watchers can hold out some joy at the movie-like length of these last few episodes. \u2014 Uvie Bikomo, Rolling Stone , 21 June 2022",
"Military analysts have viewed the Ukrainian army\u2019s decision to hold out in the city as a risky maneuver. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"That plays into the owners\u2019 ability to hold out , as does the general fact that their wealth considerably outpaces that of the players. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 9 Mar. 2022",
"In Missouri, which is being hammered by Delta, CNN reported that some people are getting their shots in secret to avoid social and political pressure to hold out . \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 3 Aug. 2021",
"In recent months the Afghan forces have ceded a significant amount of territory to the Taliban, raising questions about their ability to hold out after the U.S. completes its withdrawal. \u2014 Robert Burns, Star Tribune , 22 July 2021",
"The 130-mile ring is designed to hold out a storm surge of about 30 feet around New Orleans and suburbs in three parishes. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 31 May 2022",
"The intensity of the latest fighting and the influx of Russian troops have surprised Ukrainians, who are trying to hold out until more weapons can arrive, Zhdanov said. \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 31 May 2022",
"The intensity of the latest fighting and the fact that Russia has poured troops in from their far east have come as a surprise to the Ukrainians, who are trying to hold out until more weapons can arrive, Zhdanov said. \u2014 Yuras Karmanau And Elena Becatoros, Anchorage Daily News , 30 May 2022"
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"The overwrought exposition, which feels like a structural holdover from the movie\u2019s developmental origins as a Quibi series, gums up the pacing. \u2014 Robert Daniels, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
"The availability of one key holdover from last year is in question. \u2014 Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle , 31 Mar. 2022",
"But that\u2019s nearly impossible: The swimsuit issue is a holdover from an earlier century. \u2014 Frankie De La Cretaz, CNN , 19 May 2022",
"This is a holdover from the island's colonial-era past, prior to the purchase by the U.S. and its transition of power in 1917. \u2014 Travel + Leisure , 12 May 2022",
"Ta\u2019Quan Roberson, the transfer from Penn State, has been taking a lot of the snaps at quarterback with Steven Krajewski, a holdover from last season. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 20 Apr. 2022",
"There will be a new offensive coordinator, however, in former Texas-San Antonio assistant Barry Lunney Jr., and the Illini still have to make a decision at quarterback between holdover Artur Sitkowski and Syracuse transfer Tommy DeVito. \u2014 Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY , 20 Apr. 2022",
"But one holdover executive seemed well positioned to thrive under new management. \u2014 Variety , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Eye View will serve as a follow-up to Cordae\u2019s 2021 holdover EP Just Until\u2026, as well as his first studio set since launching his own record label Hi Level back in June. \u2014 Glenn Rowley, Billboard , 11 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The negative power that all this used to hold over me was rooted in silence. \u2014 Drew Petersen, Outside Online , 30 June 2021",
"That was before his Friday tweet that the $44 billion deal was now on hold over how many of the platform's accounts were spam or fake. \u2014 David Zurawik, CNN , 16 May 2022",
"The mysterious Spacing Guild and its Navigator use the spice to control their monopoly on space travel, granting them an iron hold over the Imperium itself. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 23 Oct. 2021",
"Once again, diplomacy failed to hold over the long term, but with very different consequences. \u2014 Noah Millman, The Week , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Think: the sun\u2019s hold over distant planets, or the journey light from far-off stars makes across the universe. \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 7 Apr. 2022",
"His platform centered on two main points: ending the war in the east in a way palatable to Ukrainians and breaking up corrupt oligarchs\u2019 hold over the economy. \u2014 Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times , 14 Feb. 2022",
"The combination would consolidate the airlines\u2019 hold over some airports, which could put pressure on other carriers, such as JetBlue, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Allegiant Airlines, to join forces through partnerships or mergers. \u2014 Niraj Chokshi, New York Times , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Country singer Sara Evans' estranged husband Jay Barker shared his side of the story on social media Sunday after he was arrested and placed on a domestic violence hold over the weekend. \u2014 Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com , 17 Jan. 2022"
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"Kosovo's culture minister Hajrulla Ceku, said the holdup resulted from festival organizers seeking a 99-year lease. \u2014 Llazar Semini, ajc , 15 June 2022",
"The holdup largely stems from a Commerce Department investigation into alleged tariff-dodging by Chinese manufacturers. \u2014 Evan Halper, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"The armed holdup happened Saturday at the store in the 9600 block of Vaughn Road in Pike Road, according to Central Alabama Crime Stoppers. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 3 May 2022",
"The last holdup was in Rhode Island, but a judge on Monday dismissed Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha\u2019s appeal in that state after the two sides reached a settlement. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 May 2022",
"The main holdup , according to Bahlil Lahadalia, Indonesia\u2019s Minister of Investment, is the lack of a level playing field. \u2014 Dan Reilly, Fortune , 23 May 2022",
"Originally scheduled for a Wednesday takeoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the mission was delayed due to a holdup with NASA's Artemis 1 Moon rocket. \u2014 Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The only holdup currently seems to be getting the supply chain back in place. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 3 Apr. 2022",
"The holdup isn\u2019t with the Park Service, says Jon Jarvis, NPS director during the Obama administration. \u2014 Frederick Reimers, Outside Online , 3 Oct. 2020",
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"That man also had a blue stain on his collarbone, which came from a brooch once used to hold up a cloak, reports the Guardian\u2019s Harriet Sherwood. \u2014 Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine , 21 June 2022",
"All offer some degree of UV protection (typically up to 95 percent) and are made to hold up to the elements. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 18 June 2022",
"Warriors point guard Steph Curry\u2019s foot seemed to hold up just fine in Game 4 of the NBA Finals. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
"With that said, some are positioned to hold up well during times of economic turmoil. \u2014 Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"These kinds also tend to be higher in protein and have a sturdier texture that tend to hold up better on the grill. \u2014 Marygrace Taylor, SELF , 7 June 2022",
"Each of these categories could continue to hold up relatively well in a continuing environment of high inflation and rising interest rates, said Papagiannis, who manages model and multi-asset portfolios for Northern Trust in Chicago. \u2014 Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic , 5 June 2022",
"While Apple\u2019s growth could hold up , shareholder returns should be magnified by Apple\u2019s massive stock buyback program. \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"Throughout the playoffs, different players have stepped up in different games as support beams to hold up the NBA Finals dreams of the core of Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Smart. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 24 May 2022"
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"Marina Raphael\u2019s mini iteration of its signature holdall is brought to life by precision cut geometric shapes inspired by cafe tables and garden tiles of idyllic summer destination, Sardinia. \u2014 Bianca Salonga, Forbes , 18 Apr. 2022",
"The holdall is a pleasure to use from the first day, but designed explicitly for the long haul\u2014and backed up by a quarter-century guarantee. \u2014 Alexander Freeling, Robb Report , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Few pieces inspire as much devotion (and hysteria) as the French brand\u2019s classic leather holdall . \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 14 Oct. 2020",
"The navy hue and clean lines of this ample holdall feel more urban adjacent than country retreat, not unlike Hampstead itself. \u2014 WSJ , 8 May 2018",
"Alfred Dunhill Ltd. manufactures and sells luxury goods, such as $1,090 Cadogan briefcases, $1,650 Boston backpacks, and $5,400 Duke holdalls . \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 28 July 2017",
"Greater Manchester Police found a gym bag (described as a holdall ) in a white Nissan Micra seized in the Rusholme area of Manchester, on June 2. \u2014 Emanuella Grinberg, CNN , 6 June 2017"
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"1851, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8h\u014dld-\u02cc\u022fl"
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"suitcase",
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"wallet"
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"noun"
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"handcuff",
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"hog-tie",
"hold up",
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"Noun",
"there'll be a holdback on production until the new machinery is fully installed",
"the only holdback to starting the new job is my contractual commitment to my current position",
"Verb",
"the only thing holding Joe back from joining the swim team is lack of transportation",
"held back her tears until she was alone",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But for now, teachers should continue moving forward with everything required under the law as if the holdback provision will be in place at the end of next school year. \u2014 Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al , 8 June 2021",
"Now, third graders in the 2021-22 school year will remain subject to a holdback provision. \u2014 Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al , 27 May 2021",
"In Mississippi, whose third-grade reading law Alabama\u2019s was modeled after, the state board of education suspended the holdback provision for the current school year only according to a department of education spokesperson. \u2014 Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al , 20 May 2021",
"In the case of escrow, a holdback is created at closing, which means the seller does not receive all the funds. \u2014 Robin Gagnon, Forbes , 11 May 2021",
"Typical issues are: The amount and length of the escrow holdback for indemnification claims. \u2014 Gary Miller, The Denver Post , 27 Oct. 2019",
"The Connecticut Department of Education sent Canterbury town officials a letter saying that the additional holdback of $250,000 would incur a $500,000 Education Cost Sharing penalty. \u2014 Denise Coffey, Courant Community , 3 Apr. 2018",
"Legislation is being discussed to do away with the penalty associated with cuts made after holdbacks were announced. \u2014 Denise Coffey, Courant Community , 3 Apr. 2018",
"Negotiators from the House had agreed near the end of the regular session to lower the holdback to $100 million. \u2014 Lsu Manship School News Service, NOLA.com , 13 June 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The dam is used not merely to generate power and hold back water reservoirs, but also to power a very special server hub. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"The digital payments specialist has announced layoffs and declared two profit warnings in recent quarters as inflation grinds higher and consumers hold back . \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
"Less than 24 hours later, Fisher called an impromptu news conference Thursday and did not hold back with his displeasure with his former boss when the two were at LSU. \u2014 Ralph D. Russo, Chicago Tribune , 19 May 2022",
"Meanwhile, Teresa's ex-husband Joe Giudice paid tribute to Gia's momentous day on social media and didn't hold back when gushing over his eldest daughter. \u2014 Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com , 8 Jan. 2022",
"The Buckeyes emptied their bench early, but Williams did not hold back . \u2014 Nathan Baird, cleveland , 27 Dec. 2021",
"Britney Spears did not hold back when talking about her family following rumors that her brother, Bryan Spears, was set to attend her and Sam Asghari's wedding last week. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 15 June 2022",
"Producer Laurie Borg did not hold back on his thoughts on the rival period drama. \u2014 Janaya Wecker, Town & Country , 10 June 2022",
"The 4-year-old royal, who stood alongside his big brother Prince George, 8, and big sister Princess Charlotte, 7, didn't hold back at Trooping the Colour, the annual celebration of his great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth's birthday. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 2 June 2022"
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"1535, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
"1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"\u02c8h\u014dl(d)-\u02ccbak"
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"delay",
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"wait"
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"She is the holder of an honorary degree.",
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"The new record holder , described Thursday in the journal Science, resembles thin, hair-like filaments. \u2014 Sumeet Kulkarni, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"Now, familiarize yourself with the new record- holder in the largest freshwater fish category: a giant stingray that measures about 13 feet long and weighs 660 pounds. \u2014 Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics , 22 June 2022",
"Courtney Frerichs is the American record- holder (8:57.77) who is coming off a silver-medal performance at last year\u2019s Olympics. \u2014 Brian Metzler, Outside Online , 22 June 2022",
"That bests the previous record- holder , season two of Bridgerton, which had 193 million hours of watch time over its opening weekend in March. \u2014 Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 June 2022",
"The 13-foot fish dethrones the former record- holder , a 646-pound catfish found in northern Thailand in 2005. \u2014 Andrew Jeong, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"That would make Cheve the deepest in the world, following the current title- holder , Veryovkyna in Abkhazia in Georgia, which is about a quarter mile shorter. \u2014 Angela Dawson, Forbes , 28 May 2022",
"Now Evans is coaching the most recent South Mountain state record holder , a mark that nobody until a month ago had a shot at getting. \u2014 Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic , 11 May 2022",
"Today, the holder of the position, Sarah Clarke, must recreate this moment by banging on the door of the House of Commons three times with her rod. \u2014 Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com , 10 May 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8h\u014dl-d\u0259r"
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"owner",
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"noun"
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": a part by which a plant clings to a flat surface":[],
": an organ by which a parasitic animal attaches itself to its host":[],
": something to which something else may be firmly secured":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Trilobites would scuttle across the ocean floor past primitive sea anemones gripping the bottom with their fleshy holdfasts . \u2014 Michael Greshko, National Geographic , 21 Mar. 2019",
"State rules required cutters to trim above the lowest branches and no closer than 40 centimeters from the holdfast \u2014the sturdy foot with which rockweed grips the shore\u2014to allow the plants to regrow after each haircut. \u2014 Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian , 31 May 2018",
"The vine also produces holdfasts , and is consequently an excellent tree climber, growing aggressively upward, eventually strangling its host. \u2014 Dave Taft, New York Times , 20 Jan. 2017"
],
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"1566, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8h\u014dl(d)-\u02ccfast"
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"\u2014 Sidney Offit"
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"Noun",
"penalized 10 yards for holding",
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"The troops were engaged in a holding action until reinforcements could arrive.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"We were put in the holding room in one of the Senate office buildings for hours, and hours, and hours. \u2014 NBC News , 1 May 2022",
"Over the years the canals were filled, and the house evolved to meet the needs of the city, also serving as a tool shed for park staff, a watchman\u2019s lodge, and a temporary holding cell for Park Police. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Once, Putin kept Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice waiting for almost three hours in a Red Square holding room, only to be told that the meeting had been moved to Putin\u2019s dacha 40 minutes away in Barvikha. \u2014 Philip Elliott, Time , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Creppy knows his client could be spending the night in a frigid holding cell. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
"In an extraordinary move on the night of Sept. 8, the Supreme Court stopped Ramirez\u2019s planned execution as the inmate waited in a holding room next to the death chamber. \u2014 Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News , 24 Mar. 2022",
"In the holding room, waiting like everyone else for the results, Cantrell began to feel better about the Pearl. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Officers removed the restraint system and left Lofton in a holding room at the JIAC, where a staff member came by to explain the assessment process and let him into the open foyer, the report said. \u2014 Christina Maxouris And Joe Sutton, CNN , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Interestingly, our machine learning engine expects the stock to observe a near-term rebound \u2013 indicating a strategy of selling after a short holding period. \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Like the non- holding call against TCU on the Frogs\u2019 first touchdown drive. \u2014 Kirk Bohls, USA TODAY , 4 Oct. 2020",
"It was established in 1997 to meet the needs of parents in the community, focusing on activities for parents of children birth to 3 years old and holding interactive sessions each month for families, according to the schools website. \u2014 Charlie Lapastora, Fox News , 20 Apr. 2018",
"Here\u2019s how holding office affects Florida lawmakers\u2019 incomes But surprisingly, Florida lawmakers did not boost their incomes while in office. \u2014 Kevin Fahey, Washington Post , 10 Aug. 2017",
"Please explain how holding secret meetings on the health care bill relates to consent of the governed. \u2014 Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com , 27 June 2017"
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"1568, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
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"\u02c8h\u014dl-di\u014b"
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"doom",
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},
"examples":[
"Our plane was in a holding pattern for almost an hour because of the fog.",
"repair work on the bridge was in a holding pattern for the duration of the winter",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"These are two central characters who are, for the most part, stuck in a holding pattern , subject to the whims of another. \u2014 Anna Pitoniak, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"The fate of the 155-acre Country Club of Woodbridge property and main building remains in a holding pattern \u2014 for now. \u2014 Pam Mcloughlin, Hartford Courant , 11 June 2022",
"Granger appealed his termination and until a final decision is made or a judge acts, Lancaster and the former superintendent are in a holding pattern on the severance payment. \u2014 Emily Donaldson, Dallas News , 24 Mar. 2021",
"The Trump-era rule went into effect with the arrival of COVID-19 and has shuttered the border for the past two years, keeping everyone in this room in a holding pattern . \u2014 Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor , 1 June 2022",
"While Kiev isn\u2019t Paris and Moscow isn\u2019t Madrid, the war in Europe has apparently put millions of potential travelers into a holding pattern . \u2014 Michael Goldstein, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
"However, Scott's office said in September that the city was in a holding pattern , awaiting the conclusion of HUD's investigation into Jarmon's complaint. \u2014 Tess Vrbin, Arkansas Online , 7 May 2022",
"When and for how long he\u2019ll be suspended remains unknown, leaving the Dodgers in somewhat of a holding pattern as teams rush to sign free agents before Wednesday night\u2019s impending lockout. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 29 Nov. 2021",
"Now the world is in a sort of information holding pattern . \u2014 Helen Regan, CNN , 29 Nov. 2021"
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"defer",
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"hold this up as perfection",
"\u2014 The Times Literary Supplement (London)"
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"music that holds up twenty years later"
],
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},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"There have been a series of holdups at local banks.",
"a holdup in construction due to the weather",
"Verb",
"held up mail delivery until we had a permanent address",
"traffic was held up for miles by the accident",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Kosovo's culture minister Hajrulla Ceku, said the holdup resulted from festival organizers seeking a 99-year lease. \u2014 Llazar Semini, ajc , 15 June 2022",
"The holdup largely stems from a Commerce Department investigation into alleged tariff-dodging by Chinese manufacturers. \u2014 Evan Halper, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"The armed holdup happened Saturday at the store in the 9600 block of Vaughn Road in Pike Road, according to Central Alabama Crime Stoppers. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 3 May 2022",
"The last holdup was in Rhode Island, but a judge on Monday dismissed Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha\u2019s appeal in that state after the two sides reached a settlement. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 May 2022",
"The main holdup , according to Bahlil Lahadalia, Indonesia\u2019s Minister of Investment, is the lack of a level playing field. \u2014 Dan Reilly, Fortune , 23 May 2022",
"Originally scheduled for a Wednesday takeoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the mission was delayed due to a holdup with NASA's Artemis 1 Moon rocket. \u2014 Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The only holdup currently seems to be getting the supply chain back in place. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 3 Apr. 2022",
"The holdup isn\u2019t with the Park Service, says Jon Jarvis, NPS director during the Obama administration. \u2014 Frederick Reimers, Outside Online , 3 Oct. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"That man also had a blue stain on his collarbone, which came from a brooch once used to hold up a cloak, reports the Guardian\u2019s Harriet Sherwood. \u2014 Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine , 21 June 2022",
"All offer some degree of UV protection (typically up to 95 percent) and are made to hold up to the elements. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 18 June 2022",
"Warriors point guard Steph Curry\u2019s foot seemed to hold up just fine in Game 4 of the NBA Finals. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
"With that said, some are positioned to hold up well during times of economic turmoil. \u2014 Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"These kinds also tend to be higher in protein and have a sturdier texture that tend to hold up better on the grill. \u2014 Marygrace Taylor, SELF , 7 June 2022",
"Each of these categories could continue to hold up relatively well in a continuing environment of high inflation and rising interest rates, said Papagiannis, who manages model and multi-asset portfolios for Northern Trust in Chicago. \u2014 Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic , 5 June 2022",
"While Apple\u2019s growth could hold up , shareholder returns should be magnified by Apple\u2019s massive stock buyback program. \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"Throughout the playoffs, different players have stepped up in different games as support beams to hold up the NBA Finals dreams of the core of Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Smart. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 24 May 2022"
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"1837, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1851, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
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"\u02c8h\u014dld-\u02cc\u0259p"
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"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
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"bore",
"drill",
"perforate",
"pierce",
"punch",
"puncture",
"riddle"
],
"definitions":{
": a cave, pit, or well in the ground":[
"dug a large hole with a steam shovel"
],
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": a hollowed-out place":[
"a hole in an apple"
],
": a position of owing or losing money":[
"$10 million in the hole",
"raising money to get out of the hole"
],
": a prison cell especially for solitary confinement":[
"threw him in the hole for two days"
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": a serious discrepancy : flaw , weakness":[
"some holes in your logic"
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": a shallow cylindrical hole or hollowed-out place in the putting green of a golf course into which the ball is played":[],
": a wretched or dreary place":[
"How could anyone live in such a hole "
],
": an area where something is missing":[
"His mother's death left a hole in his life."
],
": an awkward position or circumstance : fix":[
"got the rebels out of a hole at the battle",
"\u2014 Kenneth Roberts"
],
": an opening through something : perforation":[
"The coat has a hole in it.",
"a bullet hole"
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": at a disadvantage":[],
": burrow":[
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],
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"hole a putt",
"The dogs holed the fox."
],
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"The ship was holed along the waterline by enemy fire."
],
": to make an opening through or a hollowed-out place in something : to make a hole in something":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"I have a hole in my sock.",
"He fixed the hole in the roof.",
"a mouse hole in the wall",
"The dog dug a deep hole .",
"Her putt rolled right into the hole .",
"She made a birdie on the seventh hole .",
"The course has 18 holes .",
"Verb",
"She holed a long putt for a birdie.",
"holed the target with a round of shots",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But his shot caught up on the lip, and fell to the ground after 43 yards, still 82 yards from the hole . \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 26 June 2022",
"But Fitz, who\u2019d already drained a couple long and bloodless putts on the back 9, hit the approach from the sand to 18 feet from the hole . \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 20 June 2022",
"Hoskins\u2019 two-out hit off Anthony Bass (1-3) scored Matt Vierling and capped a Phillies rally from a 2-1 hole in the seventh. \u2014 Dan Gelston, Sun Sentinel , 14 June 2022",
"The 156 golfers will tee off in the first round on Thursday in groups of three, 26 groups from the first hole , the other 26 from No. 10. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2022",
"Woods made five straight bogeys from the ninth hole . \u2014 CBS News , 21 May 2022",
"In July 2020, Belmar police, lifeguards, rescuers and firefighters saved a boy from a collapsed sand hole . \u2014 Ken Serrano, USA TODAY , 18 May 2022",
"Then the next year, a 12-year-old boy was hospitalized after being pulled from a collapsed sand hole in Surf City, a city in Long Beach Island, N.J., according to local news reports. \u2014 Lindsey Bever, Washington Post , 18 May 2022",
"Nobody breaking from the three hole has won the Derby since Real Quiet in 1998. \u2014 Guy Martin, Forbes , 6 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"There's also drill- hole tabs at the base for permanent installation. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 13 May 2022",
"Apple is moving to hole -punch displays this year, but the notch replacement isn\u2019t quite as clean as on Android phones. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Add a few handfuls of worm castings to hole but no other amendments. \u2014 Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 Oct. 2021",
"With Cantlay in close, the Spaniard had to hole the chip to have any chance of a playoff. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 5 Sep. 2021",
"Proximity to hole leaders from 175-200 yards include: Collin Morikawa, Charley Hoffman, Xander Schauffele, Viktor Hovland, Abraham Ancer, Daniel Berger, Will Zalatoris and Tony Finau. \u2014 Jay Ginsbach, Forbes , 17 June 2021",
"Betsy Wentz, founder of Studio B Interior Design, has an office/command center at one of three kitchen islands (more on those later) while her husband, a doctor, can hole away in a study. \u2014 Hadley Keller, House Beautiful , 30 July 2020",
"Brady was the butt of the joke (quite literally when his pants split down the back) until the six-time Super Bowl winner holed -out from the fairway on the Par-5 7th hole in the greatest moment of the event. \u2014 Carolyn Manno, CNN , 25 May 2020",
"The two friends appear to have been holed together for the past week. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 19 Mar. 2020"
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
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"Middle English hole, holle, going back to Old English hol \"hollow place, cave, pit,\" noun derivative from neuter of hol \"hollow, deeply concave, sunken,\" going back to Germanic *hula- (whence also Old Saxon & Old High German hol \"hollow,\" Old Norse holr ), probably going back to Indo-European *\u1e31uH-l\u00f3- (with assumed shortening of pretonic vowel), zero-grade derivative of a base *\u1e31eu\u032fH- \"hollow,\" whence, with varying ablaut and suffixation, Greek ko\u00eelos, k\u00f3\u00eflos \"hollow, deep\" (from *\u1e31ou\u032fH-ilo- ), Latin cavus \"hollow, concave\" (from *\u1e31ou\u032fH-o- ), Middle Irish c\u00faa \"hollow space, cavity,\" Middle Welsh ceu \"hollow, empty\" (both from *\u1e31ou\u032fH-i\u032fo- ":"Noun",
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"\u02c8h\u014dl"
],
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"opening",
"orifice",
"perforation"
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"verb"
]
},
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"1908, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"backstairs",
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"covert",
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"hugger-mugger",
"hush-hush",
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"privy",
"secret",
"sneak",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
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"surreptitious",
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"underhanded"
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": having holes":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But the story is lumpy too, its mechanical interweaving of Shakespeare and Disney somehow both predictable and holey . \u2014 New York Times , 24 Oct. 2021",
"In a 2018 Frontiers in Psychiatry case study, a girl with trypophobia reported being triggered by seeds on bread, polka dot or animal prints, holey cheese, and honeycomb. \u2014 Natasha Lavender, SELF , 26 July 2019",
"This part happens fast, but the gist is that the holey boat founders next to a larger ship that\u2019s sinking and spilling oil into the water. \u2014 Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan , 17 July 2017",
"This weekend is your last chance to shop for holey sweaters ($350) and enamel heart logo pins ($95) at the MET x CDG Pocket Shop, which closes Monday with the Costume Institute exhibition. \u2014 Alison S. Cohn, New York Times , 30 Aug. 2017",
"Harry makes it out of the holey boat but lands right in the oil like one of those baby pelicans that has to get washed off with Dawn. \u2014 Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan , 17 July 2017",
"Remember when someone turned their fingernails into holey slices of Swiss cheese and the internet was devastated by the grossness"
],
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"13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"\u02c8h\u014d-l\u0113"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125034",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"origin unknown":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-045842",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"vacation"
],
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],
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],
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],
"Eleanora 1915\u20131959 Billie American jazz singer":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"July 4 is a national holiday in the U.S.",
"The stock market is closed tomorrow because it's a holiday .",
"She'll have four weeks' holiday next year.",
"We're planning on taking a holiday in the Caribbean.",
"Verb",
"She likes holidaying in the Caribbean.",
"saw kangaroos while holidaying in Australia",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Another week, another retail therapy holiday for scooping up deals on end-of-season inventory and summer-ready goods. \u2014 Danielle Directo-meston, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 June 2022",
"And there are rules about how to properly count the number of days when the deadline falls on a holiday (or even on a day when the Tax Court is closed due to inclement weather). \u2014 Amber Gray-fenner, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"The federal holiday commemorating what happened on June 19, 1865, was Monday, June 20. \u2014 Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al , 23 June 2022",
"Don\u2019t forget to wash down all of these adorable desserts with our Halloween cocktails for a creative, creepy holiday ! \u2014 Taylor Worden, Good Housekeeping , 21 June 2022",
"The Juneteenth holiday on Sunday, which caused some government offices and businesses to be closed on Monday, may have also affected Monday's new case numbers, Tumlison said. \u2014 Andy Davis, Arkansas Online , 21 June 2022",
"There isn\u2019t much a president can do to quickly lower the price of gas, but President Biden could call for a gas tax holiday , which could reduce the price at the pump by around 18 cents a gallon. \u2014 Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver , 21 June 2022",
"The holiday , which started in Texas, became a federal holiday last year. \u2014 Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun , 19 June 2022",
"The nation's youngest federal holiday , Juneteenth, is Sunday. \u2014 Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The surge came, worse than imagined, with Americans determined to holiday their way through the new year like the pandemic didn\u2019t exist. \u2014 Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY , 26 Jan. 2021",
"For the world\u2019s beleaguered airline industry, the measures give travelers yet another reason to think twice before taking to the skies and will probably end Britons\u2019 plans of holidaying abroad this summer. \u2014 James Ludden, Bloomberg.com , 12 May 2020",
"Morrison returned home early from holidaying in Hawaii ahead of Christmas following the death of two firefighters and amid criticism his government was doing too little to address climate change and a country-wide drought. \u2014 NBC News , 29 Dec. 2019",
"Macey Ellison, 18, and her family, who were holidaying in Mallacoota, in the southeastern state of Victoria, took cover in a friend\u2019s small boat for more than four hours as the fire threatened the town. \u2014 Rachel Pannett, WSJ , 1 Jan. 2020",
"Check out the video above to see what makes some of your faves\u2019 holidays the Blackest celebration of all time. \u2014 Danielle Young, Essence , 24 Dec. 2019",
"Ticking off yet another Caribbean island, Queen Elizabeth II visited Mustique (where William and Kate are currently rumoured to be holidaying ) with her sister Princess Margaret in 1977. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 26 July 2019",
"The stimulus measures include incentives for Thais to holiday in their country, as well as extra support for farmers, small businesses and the poor. \u2014 The Economist , 22 Aug. 2019",
"According to the Sun, the Derby County manager, who has been holidaying in France with his family, is set to meet Roman Abramovich on his yacht in St Tropez this week for contractual talks. \u2014 SI.com , 18 June 2019"
],
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"1869, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
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"Middle English, from Old English h\u0101ligd\u00e6g , from h\u0101lig holy + d\u00e6g day":"Noun and Verb"
},
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"\u02c8h\u00e4-l\u0259-\u02ccd\u0101",
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"break",
"hols",
"leave",
"recess",
"vacation"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114651",
"type":[
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},
"holler":{
"antonyms":[
"cry",
"hoot",
"howl",
"shout",
"whoop",
"yell",
"yowl"
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"definitions":{
": an African American work song freely improvised usually in terms of the particular occupation of the moment and often without words":[
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],
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],
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],
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"hollering her daughter's name"
],
": to cry out (as to attract attention or in pain) : shout":[
"hollering for help"
]
},
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"Verb",
"He was hollering across the fields to his workers.",
"They were screaming and hollering at each other all night.",
"She hollered across the street, \u201cDid you hear the news",
"Someone was hollering my name.",
"People always holler about tax increases.",
"Noun",
"heard a holler from somewhere in the woods and ran toward it",
"there didn't seem to be a thermostat setting that wouldn't bring a holler from somebody",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Kerrigan asks the audience, who hoot and holler in enthusiastic response. \u2014 Audra Heinrichs, ELLE , 19 Feb. 2022",
"Derrick\u2019s oft-absent mother comes out to holler , scattering the squid-throwing youth. \u2014 Bethy Squires, Vulture , 14 Dec. 2021",
"People would hoot and holler at her and sometimes throw things. \u2014 Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press , 5 Oct. 2021",
"People would hoot and holler at her and sometimes throw things. \u2014 Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press , 5 Oct. 2021",
"Dressed casually in sneakers and a blue pull-over with the Fordson logo, the current state representative from Dearborn speaks in a microphone heard on the stadium loudspeakers as people holler in support. \u2014 Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press , 8 Nov. 2021",
"People would hoot and holler at her and sometimes throw things. \u2014 Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press , 5 Oct. 2021",
"People would hoot and holler at her and sometimes throw things. \u2014 Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press , 5 Oct. 2021",
"People would hoot and holler at her and sometimes throw things. \u2014 Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press , 5 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Disney\u2019s Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue is back, presenting its hoot and a holler style of entertainment after an absence of more than two years at Fort Wilderness. \u2014 Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel , 24 June 2022",
"The parallels to America are clear, but Harris gives Sugarland its own ceremonies of remembrance and loss, including a semi-Pentecostal, funereal holler that made a holy terror announce itself in my body. \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2022",
"No Way Home hits its hoot-and- holler beats about as skillfully as Endgame did. \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 14 Dec. 2021",
"Wasn\u2019t a holler guy, didn\u2019t throw stools in the clubhouse. \u2014 Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times , 29 Nov. 2021",
"The spectacle of it all might be the initial draw, but infectious, holler -along hooks invite audiences to join in the fun. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Next person who sees Kenny Stabler, give us a holler . \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 14 Sep. 2021",
"Boone relented, Cole punched out Alvarez on three pitches and then the Yankees All-Star let out an enormous holler . \u2014 Kristie Rieken, ajc , 11 July 2021",
"Boone relented, Cole punched out Alvarez on three pitches and then the Yankees All-Star let out an enormous holler . \u2014 Kristie Rieken, ajc , 11 July 2021"
],
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"1592, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
"1825, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
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"\u02c8h\u00e4-l\u0259r"
],
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"bellyache",
"bitch",
"bleat",
"carp",
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"croak",
"fuss",
"gripe",
"grizzle",
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"mutter",
"nag",
"repine",
"scream",
"squawk",
"squeal",
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"whinge",
"yammer",
"yawp",
"yaup",
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],
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},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"far into the night searchers could be heard holloing for the lost child"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
"1588, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Interjection",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
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"origin unknown":"Interjection"
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"h\u00e4-\u02c8l\u014d",
"\u02c8h\u00e4-(\u02cc)l\u014d",
"h\u0259-"
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"bawl",
"bay",
"bellow",
"call",
"cry",
"holler",
"roar",
"shout",
"sound off",
"thunder",
"vociferate",
"yell"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-163316",
"type":[
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"noun",
"verb"
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},
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"antonyms":[
"cavity",
"concavity",
"dent",
"depression",
"dint",
"hole",
"indentation",
"indenture",
"pit",
"recess"
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"definitions":{
": an unfilled space : cavity , hole":[
"in the hollow of a tree"
],
": completely , thoroughly":[
"\u2014 often used with all \"\u2026 Edward is always real glad to get some of the old farmhouse goodies. He says they beat city cooking all hollow , and so they do.\" \u2014 Lucy Maud Montgomery"
],
": having an indentation or inward curve : concave , sunken":[
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],
": having an unfilled or hollowed-out space within":[
"a hollow tree"
],
": in a way that reflects a lack of real value, sincerity, or substance":[
"The sound echoed hollow in the cave.",
"Their threats rang hollow ."
],
": lacking in real value, sincerity, or substance : false , meaningless":[
"hollow promises",
"a victory over a weakling is hollow and without triumph",
"\u2014 Ernest Beaglehole"
],
": reverberating like a sound made in or by beating on a large empty enclosure : muffled":[
"heard a hollow sound when he knocked on the wall"
],
": so as to have a hollow (see hollow entry 1 sense 4 ) sound":[
"The sound echoed hollow in the cave.",
"Their threats rang hollow ."
],
": to become hollow":[
"his cheeks had hollowed"
],
": to form by removing the inside of something : to form by making something hollow":[
"\u2014 usually used with out rain barrels hollowed out from trees \u2014 Robert Shaplen hollowing out a tunnel"
],
": to remove the inside of : to make hollow (see hollow entry 1 )":[
"a hollowed tree",
"hollowing out pumpkins for Halloween"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"There was a hollow spot in the field.",
"there's a noticeably hollow spot in the mattress where he has been sleeping",
"Noun",
"The owls nested in the hollow of a tree.",
"made a little hollow in her mound of mashed potatoes and filled it with gravy",
"Verb",
"They hollowed the log to make a canoe.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Luiza Dorner, 25, of Kyiv, whose husband is fighting in the Donbas region, said that statements from Zelenskyy and other government officials have started to ring hollow . \u2014 Lauren Egan, NBC News , 23 June 2022",
"But without Scope 3 emissions in those plans, the entire effort can ring hollow . \u2014 Kristine Gill, Fortune , 15 June 2022",
"But Gilpin\u2019s identity crisis is a bit too raw to ring hollow . \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 15 June 2022",
"Those words might ring hollow with fans these days, who've endured a rebuild since 2017 on the heels of a team that was constantly in go-for-it mode but never got the World Series title to show for it. \u2014 Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press , 11 May 2022",
"In such a small spider, each leg is likely finer than a human hair, Bhamla says, yet also hollow and able to create a lot of force using only microfluidic action. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Specialized arrows are equipped with a float and tipped with a small, hollow and sterile cylinder with barbs on the inside grab a bit of skin. \u2014 Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Apr. 2022",
"AccessNow's Krapiva points out that the timing of the campaign in El Salvador underscores how hollow NSO Group's defense of its products has been. \u2014 Lily Hay Newman, Wired , 12 Jan. 2022",
"Like many other flying species during that time, this pterosaur had bones that were hollow to aid in flight, Brown said. \u2014 Megan Marples, CNN , 8 Dec. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"At 9:51 a shotgun report echoed through the hollow below my position. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 May 2022",
"Tucked in a picturesque Appalachian hollow near Burnsville in western North Carolina, Carolina Native Nursery is one of the largest growers of exclusively native plants. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Speed skates have long, solid blades without a hollow . \u2014 Allison Goldstein, Popular Mechanics , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Then on Friday morning, hours before President Biden was scheduled to visit the city to discuss the condition of the country\u2019s infrastructure, the bridge collapsed into the snowy hollow below. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Running headlong down a steep hill in a Kentucky hollow , exhilarated by the danger of falling and breaking his legs. \u2014 Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker , 17 Jan. 2022",
"Now, tuck your tailbone under so that the hollow between your low back and the doorframe disappears. \u2014 Jay Dicharry, Outside Online , 26 Apr. 2021",
"The other is done by an assistant, with each of his middle fingers pressing with persistent firmness into the hollow behind the ridge of the temporal bone, which forms the [side wall of the eye socket]. \u2014 Mark Fischetti, Scientific American , 16 Dec. 2021",
"This 36-foot-diameter spherical cavity, made of 132 individual elements, appears to emerge from a hollow in the earth. \u2014 Irene S. Levine, Forbes , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"While no single case is aimed at overturning Chevron, a string of victories would essentially hollow it out. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2022",
"Take the tea out of a tea bag, hollow it out and stand it up, and (carefully) take a match to it. \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 1 June 2022",
"The company originally used the water to hollow out five underground caverns, pumping it into the salt dome and then bringing it back up \u2014 full of dissolved salt \u2014 and storing it in the ponds. \u2014 Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
"When the institutions of government hollow out, what\u2019s left is the chase for these cheap gratifications, removing the last self-restraints from those in power. \u2014 George Packer, The Atlantic , 18 May 2022",
"But the past two years have been unusual as Atlanta, like many other major American cities, has seen its central business districts hollow out. \u2014 Alexander Thompson, The Christian Science Monitor , 2 May 2022",
"Beech trees, which are native to Ohio and can live up to 300 years, also tend to hollow out over time, creating important nesting cavities for various critters. \u2014 Peter Krouse, cleveland , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Both Philip and the Inquisitor live on, however hollow their souls. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2022",
"The rush to let anyone with a bank account big enough into the sport has made these kinds of actions hollow . \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 25 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"That notion rings hollow to Nick Cady, legal director for Cascadia Wildlands, one of the environmental organizations that originally petitioned to protect fishers in Oregon in 2000. \u2014 oregonlive , 19 May 2020",
"But the Iranian government's tendency to point the finger at Washington, or other malicious foreign actors, for unrest at home is ringing hollow now. \u2014 Eliza Mackintosh, CNN , 13 Jan. 2020",
"This argument rings hollow , since college sports already sit on an uneven playing field. \u2014 Sean Gregory, Time , 1 Oct. 2019",
"But the call for peace rings hollow today when the past and future so miss the mark. \u2014 Lucy Dacus, New York Times , 6 Aug. 2019",
"Despite all the runs and belting that Khalid can do, his voice rings hollow , an untethered reverberation against slick, genre-melding production. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Aug. 2019",
"The command rings hollow as a packaging slogan, but Smith lays it out there as a pointed provocation, part of the show's larger assertion that acts of nurture and nationhood, art and humanity are profoundly linked. \u2014 Leah Ollman, latimes.com , 3 July 2018",
"The idea that these laws are intended to make women and children safer rings hollow . \u2014 Willie Parker, Glamour , 5 Apr. 2018",
"And some say his compassion for those affected by Harvey rings hollow given his lack of support for addressing climate change, which many see as exacerbating such major disasters. \u2014 Linda Feldmann, The Christian Science Monitor , 30 Aug. 2017"
],
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
"1601, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adverb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English holgh, holough \"hole, burrow, hollow of the hand,\" going back to Old English holh \"cavity, hole,\" going back to *hulha-, probably extended form of Germanic *hula- \"hollow, sunken\" \u2014 more at hole entry 1":"Noun",
"Middle English holgh, holugh, holwe, formally identical with holgh hollow entry 2 , with adjectival meaning apparently after hol, holle \"hollow, sunken,\" going back to Old English hol \u2014 more at hole entry 1":"Adjective",
"Middle English holowghen, holowen, holwen, derivative of holgh, holwe hollow entry 1":"Verb",
"derivative of hollow entry 1":"Adverb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4l-(\u02cc)\u014d, -\u0259(-w)",
"\u02c8h\u00e4-l\u014d",
"\u02c8h\u00e4-(\u02cc)l\u014d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for hollow Adjective vain , nugatory , otiose , idle , empty , hollow mean being without worth or significance. vain implies either absolute or relative absence of value. vain promises nugatory suggests triviality or insignificance. a monarch with nugatory powers otiose suggests that something serves no purpose and is either an encumbrance or a superfluity. a film without a single otiose scene idle suggests being incapable of worthwhile use or effect. idle speculations empty and hollow suggest a deceiving lack of real substance or soundness or genuineness. an empty attempt at reconciliation a hollow victory",
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"dented",
"depressed",
"dished",
"indented",
"recessed",
"sunken"
],
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"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
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},
"holocaust":{
"antonyms":[],
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": a sacrifice (see sacrifice entry 1 sense 2 ) consumed by fire":[],
": a thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life especially through fire":[
"a nuclear holocaust"
],
": the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II":[
"Several members of her family died in the Holocaust .",
"a Holocaust survivor"
]
},
"examples":[
"The museum is devoted to the Holocaust .",
"There were fears of a nuclear holocaust .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After witnessing the nuclear holocaust on November 25, 1963, Five is transported by Hazel to November 15, giving him time to stop the world from ending again. \u2014 Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 June 2022",
"This isn\u2019t the first time Binance has accidentally alluded to the holocaust during one of its marketing campaigns. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 21 Apr. 2022",
"But, to most of the Western world, the symbol is more closely associated with Nazism and the holocaust . \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Nazi obliteration of Jews during World War II is our most common example of a holocaust , but Cameron felt strongly about using the word to describe the plight and injustices of his race, too. \u2014 Mary Bergin, chicagotribune.com , 16 Feb. 2022",
"Biden is not going to listen to Pat Robertson egging him on, but there\u2019s something really perverse about hoping for nuclear holocaust . \u2014 Alex Morris, Rolling Stone , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Davis says the founder was asked to drop holocaust from the museum name, or move the museum to a different city, but Cameron refused. \u2014 Mary Bergin, chicagotribune.com , 16 Feb. 2022",
"It was followed by a secret and emotional ramble from Khrushchev about the spectre of nuclear holocaust . \u2014 Robin Wright, The New Yorker , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Our family has been in the holocaust , pograms, the pontic genocide, and further back, The Spanish Inquisition. \u2014 Fox News , 7 Feb. 2022"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Middle English, from Late Latin holocaustum , from Greek holokauston , from neuter of holokaustos burnt whole, from hol- + kaustos burnt, from kaiein to burn \u2014 more at caustic":""
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"\u02c8h\u00e4-",
"\u02c8h\u00e4-l\u0259-\u02cck\u022fst",
"or \u02c8h\u022f-l\u0259-k\u022fst",
"also -\u02cck\u00e4st",
"\u02c8h\u014d-l\u0259-\u02cck\u022fst",
"\u02c8h\u014d-l\u0259-"
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"conflagration",
"fire",
"inferno"
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"noun"
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": having all the faces required by complete symmetry \u2014 compare hemihedral , tetartohedral":[]
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"1837, in the meaning defined above":""
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u014d-l\u0259-\u02c8h\u0113-dr\u0259l",
"\u02cch\u00e4-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120751",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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": a holohedral crystal form":[]
},
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"New Latin, from hol- + -hedron":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": vacation sense 2":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1905, in the meaning defined above":""
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"history_and_etymology":{
"short for holidays":""
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"\u02c8h\u00e4lz"
],
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"synonyms":[
"break",
"holiday",
"leave",
"recess",
"vacation"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-024541",
"type":[
"plural noun"
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"antonyms":[],
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": all at once":[
"she \u2026 put it back, holus-bolus , in her pocket",
"\u2014 Wilkie Collins"
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},
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"first_known_use":{
"1857, in the meaning defined above":""
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"probably reduplication of bolus":""
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"\u02cch\u014d-l\u0259s-\u02c8b\u014d-l\u0259s"
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"adverb"
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"antireligious",
"faithless",
"godless",
"impious",
"irreligious",
"ungodly",
"unholy"
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": devoted entirely to the deity or the work of the deity":[
"a holy temple",
"holy prophets"
],
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"for the Lord our God is holy",
"\u2014 Psalms 99:9 (King James Version)"
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"holy love"
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"holy scripture",
"a holy relic"
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},
"examples":[
"a holy relic worn by one of the saints",
"the holy monk spent many hours on his knees in prayer",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Haram al-Sharif, known to Jews as the Temple Mount\u2014a holy site for both faiths that has become a defining symbol of the Palestinian national cause. \u2014 Shlomo Ben-ami, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
"Zelenskyy posted video of the burning holy site on social media Saturday. \u2014 Fox News , 4 June 2022",
"Also on Sunday, Israel allowed hundreds of mostly nationalist and religious Jews to visit the holy site that Jews refer to as the Temple Mount and Muslims know as the Al-Aqsa mosque compound. \u2014 Joseph Krauss, ajc , 30 May 2022",
"The Temple Mount is the holy site in Jerusalem\u2019s Old City known in Arabic as the Haram al-Sharif or Noble Sanctuary, containing the Al Aqsa mosque. \u2014 Cnn's Rob Picheta, CNN , 19 May 2022",
"The conflicting claims to east Jerusalem often spill over into violence, helping fuel an 11-day war between Israel and Gaza militants last year and more recently sparking weeks of unrest at the city\u2019s most sensitive holy site. \u2014 Josef Federman, Chicago Tribune , 13 May 2022",
"The Palestinian militant group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, praised the attack and linked it to violence at the Jerusalem holy site. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 7 May 2022",
"Israel and Hamas fought an 11-day war a year ago, fed largely by disputes surrounding the same holy site. \u2014 Ronen Bergman, BostonGlobe.com , 6 May 2022",
"The Palestinian militant group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, praised the attack and linked it to violence at the Jerusalem holy site. \u2014 Joseph Krauss, Anchorage Daily News , 6 May 2022"
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English h\u0101lig ; akin to Old English h\u0101l whole \u2014 more at whole":""
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"\u02c8h\u014d-l\u0113"
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"devout",
"godly",
"pious",
"religious",
"sainted",
"saintly"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-163636",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
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"holy ark":{
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": ark sense 3":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-113725",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a basil ( Ocimum sanctum ) found in the tropics of the Old World that is extensively naturalized in tropical America and that in India is held sacred to Vishnu":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030000",
"type":[
"noun"
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": antidoron":[],
": bread consecrated in the Eucharist":[],
": bread provided for the Communion service":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English holy brede":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-105638",
"type":[
"noun"
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"holy cats":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-111759",
"type":[
"interjection"
]
},
"holy tree":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": chinaberry sense 2":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-085629",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"holy unction":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a ceremonial in Eastern Orthodox and various Catholic non-Roman churches of anointing with oil the dead or those in imminent danger of dying":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English hooly unctioun":""
},
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"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104216",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"holy well":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a well or spring venerated often from pagan times for reputed healing properties":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033437",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"holy writ":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a writing or utterance having unquestionable authority":[
"its financial precepts were not necessarily Holy Writ",
"\u2014 Herbert Stein"
],
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},
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"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"synonyms":[
"Bible",
"Book",
"Good Book",
"Scripture"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201836",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"holy-water sprinkler":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": morning star sense 2":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054207",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"holytide":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a time devoted to religion":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English halitide , from hali holy + tide":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103415",
"type":[
"noun"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": something used to fasten an object in place":[],
": an act of holding down":[],
": limit":[
"agreed to wage-rate hold-downs"
],
": to keep within limits":[
"hold the noise down"
],
": to assume or have responsibility for":[
"holding down two jobs"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014dl(d)-\u02ccdau\u0307n"
],
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"cap",
"circumscribe",
"confine",
"limit",
"restrict"
],
"antonyms":[
"exceed"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Verb",
"efforts to hold down taxes keep running up against the legislature's ingrained unwillingness to cut spending"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1888, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1533, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153100"
},
"holohemihedral":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": belonging to, presenting, or being hemihedral crystal forms":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6h\u00e4l\u014d",
"\u00a6h\u014dl\u014d+"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"hol- + hemihedral":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-154435"
},
"hold (someone) up to (public) ridicule":{
"type":[
"idiom"
],
"definitions":{
": to make fun of (someone) publicly":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-155832"
},
"holes":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": an opening through something : perforation":[
"The coat has a hole in it.",
"a bullet hole"
],
": an area where something is missing":[
"His mother's death left a hole in his life."
],
": gap : such as":[
"His mother's death left a hole in his life."
],
": a serious discrepancy : flaw , weakness":[
"some holes in your logic"
],
": a defect in a crystal (as of a semiconductor ) that is due to an electron's having left its normal position in one of the crystal bonds and that is equivalent in many respects to a positively charged particle":[],
": a hollowed-out place":[
"a hole in an apple"
],
": such as":[
"a hole in an apple"
],
": a cave, pit, or well in the ground":[
"dug a large hole with a steam shovel"
],
": burrow":[
"a rabbit hole"
],
": an unusually deep place in a body of water (such as a river)":[],
": a wretched or dreary place":[
"How could anyone live in such a hole "
],
": a prison cell especially for solitary confinement":[
"threw him in the hole for two days"
],
": a shallow cylindrical hole or hollowed-out place in the putting green of a golf course into which the ball is played":[],
": an awkward position or circumstance : fix":[
"got the rebels out of a hole at the battle",
"\u2014 Kenneth Roberts"
],
": a position of owing or losing money":[
"$10 million in the hole",
"raising money to get out of the hole"
],
": having a score below zero":[],
": at a disadvantage":[],
": to make an opening through or a hollowed-out place in (as by cutting, digging, boring, or shooting at) : to make a hole (see hole entry 1 ) in":[
"The ship was holed along the waterline by enemy fire."
],
": to drive or hit into a hole":[
"hole a putt",
"The dogs holed the fox."
],
": to make an opening through or a hollowed-out place in something : to make a hole in something":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014dl"
],
"synonyms":[
"aperture",
"opening",
"orifice",
"perforation"
],
"antonyms":[
"bore",
"drill",
"perforate",
"pierce",
"punch",
"puncture",
"riddle"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Noun",
"I have a hole in my sock.",
"He fixed the hole in the roof.",
"a mouse hole in the wall",
"The dog dug a deep hole .",
"Her putt rolled right into the hole .",
"She made a birdie on the seventh hole .",
"The course has 18 holes .",
"Verb",
"She holed a long putt for a birdie.",
"holed the target with a round of shots",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But his shot caught up on the lip, and fell to the ground after 43 yards, still 82 yards from the hole . \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 26 June 2022",
"But Fitz, who\u2019d already drained a couple long and bloodless putts on the back 9, hit the approach from the sand to 18 feet from the hole . \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 20 June 2022",
"Hoskins\u2019 two-out hit off Anthony Bass (1-3) scored Matt Vierling and capped a Phillies rally from a 2-1 hole in the seventh. \u2014 Dan Gelston, Sun Sentinel , 14 June 2022",
"The 156 golfers will tee off in the first round on Thursday in groups of three, 26 groups from the first hole , the other 26 from No. 10. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2022",
"Woods made five straight bogeys from the ninth hole . \u2014 CBS News , 21 May 2022",
"In July 2020, Belmar police, lifeguards, rescuers and firefighters saved a boy from a collapsed sand hole . \u2014 Ken Serrano, USA TODAY , 18 May 2022",
"Then the next year, a 12-year-old boy was hospitalized after being pulled from a collapsed sand hole in Surf City, a city in Long Beach Island, N.J., according to local news reports. \u2014 Lindsey Bever, Washington Post , 18 May 2022",
"Nobody breaking from the three hole has won the Derby since Real Quiet in 1998. \u2014 Guy Martin, Forbes , 6 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"There's also drill- hole tabs at the base for permanent installation. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 13 May 2022",
"Apple is moving to hole -punch displays this year, but the notch replacement isn\u2019t quite as clean as on Android phones. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Add a few handfuls of worm castings to hole but no other amendments. \u2014 Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 Oct. 2021",
"With Cantlay in close, the Spaniard had to hole the chip to have any chance of a playoff. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 5 Sep. 2021",
"Proximity to hole leaders from 175-200 yards include: Collin Morikawa, Charley Hoffman, Xander Schauffele, Viktor Hovland, Abraham Ancer, Daniel Berger, Will Zalatoris and Tony Finau. \u2014 Jay Ginsbach, Forbes , 17 June 2021",
"Betsy Wentz, founder of Studio B Interior Design, has an office/command center at one of three kitchen islands (more on those later) while her husband, a doctor, can hole away in a study. \u2014 Hadley Keller, House Beautiful , 30 July 2020",
"Brady was the butt of the joke (quite literally when his pants split down the back) until the six-time Super Bowl winner holed -out from the fairway on the Par-5 7th hole in the greatest moment of the event. \u2014 Carolyn Manno, CNN , 25 May 2020",
"The two friends appear to have been holed together for the past week. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 19 Mar. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English hole, holle, going back to Old English hol \"hollow place, cave, pit,\" noun derivative from neuter of hol \"hollow, deeply concave, sunken,\" going back to Germanic *hula- (whence also Old Saxon & Old High German hol \"hollow,\" Old Norse holr ), probably going back to Indo-European *\u1e31uH-l\u00f3- (with assumed shortening of pretonic vowel), zero-grade derivative of a base *\u1e31eu\u032fH- \"hollow,\" whence, with varying ablaut and suffixation, Greek ko\u00eelos, k\u00f3\u00eflos \"hollow, deep\" (from *\u1e31ou\u032fH-ilo- ), Latin cavus \"hollow, concave\" (from *\u1e31ou\u032fH-o- ), Middle Irish c\u00faa \"hollow space, cavity,\" Middle Welsh ceu \"hollow, empty\" (both from *\u1e31ou\u032fH-i\u032fo- ":"Noun",
"Middle English holen, going back to Old English holian, derivative of hol hole entry 1":"Verb"
},
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-155840"
},
"hole-in-the-wall":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a small and often unpretentious out-of-the-way place (such as a restaurant)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u014dl-in-\u1e6fh\u0331\u0259-\u02c8w\u022fl"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1856, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-163643"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": wholly glassy":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
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"hol- + hyaline":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-170911"
},
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"type":[
"intransitive verb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
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": one that is held over":[],
": to continue (as in office) for a prolonged period":[],
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": to retain in a condition or position from an earlier period":[],
": to prolong the engagement of":[
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]
},
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"\u02c8h\u014dld-\u02cc\u014d-v\u0259r"
],
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"defer",
"delay",
"hold off (on)",
"hold up",
"lay over",
"postpone",
"put off",
"put over",
"remit",
"shelve"
],
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"He is the only holdover from their last championship team.",
"This policy is a holdover from the previous administration.",
"Verb",
"the golf tournament had to be held over until the line of thunderstorms had passed through",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"And leave it to her to do so with a hauteur that belies her giddiness \u2014 a holdover , maybe, from her early career as a model, starting in high school. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The pact was a holdover from New Regency\u2019s deal with 20th Century Fox, which was signed in 2011 and extended for a decade. \u2014 Brent Lang, Variety , 13 Dec. 2021",
"The clients had asked that the space not be too girlie, and the wallcovering, a holdover from the suite\u2019s life as guest quarters, worked as a neutral background. \u2014 Alison Van Houten, WSJ , 21 July 2021",
"The overwrought exposition, which feels like a structural holdover from the movie\u2019s developmental origins as a Quibi series, gums up the pacing. \u2014 Robert Daniels, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
"The availability of one key holdover from last year is in question. \u2014 Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle , 31 Mar. 2022",
"But that\u2019s nearly impossible: The swimsuit issue is a holdover from an earlier century. \u2014 Frankie De La Cretaz, CNN , 19 May 2022",
"This is a holdover from the island's colonial-era past, prior to the purchase by the U.S. and its transition of power in 1917. \u2014 Travel + Leisure , 12 May 2022",
"Ta\u2019Quan Roberson, the transfer from Penn State, has been taking a lot of the snaps at quarterback with Steven Krajewski, a holdover from last season. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Refusing to fade into antiquity, the 1960s grudgingly maintain an irrepressible hold over the nation\u2019s imagination. \u2014 Michael Bobelian, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
"That a show about the man who killed Gandhi would open today in an international city speaks to the transformation of a figure once reviled, if even remembered, into an ascendant avatar of Hindu nationalism and its hold over present-day India. \u2014 Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic , 2 June 2022",
"Former President Donald Trump's hold over the Republican Party again will be tested in Pennsylvania's GOP primary for an open U.S. Senate seat. \u2014 Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY , 17 May 2022",
"The latest developments in the January 6 investigation were not the weekend's only indicators of Trump's hold over his party and the influence his tumultuous time in the Oval Office still holds over the country. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 1 Nov. 2021",
"The negative power that all this used to hold over me was rooted in silence. \u2014 Drew Petersen, Outside Online , 30 June 2021",
"That was before his Friday tweet that the $44 billion deal was now on hold over how many of the platform's accounts were spam or fake. \u2014 David Zurawik, CNN , 16 May 2022",
"The mysterious Spacing Guild and its Navigator use the spice to control their monopoly on space travel, granting them an iron hold over the Imperium itself. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 23 Oct. 2021",
"Once again, diplomacy failed to hold over the long term, but with very different consequences. \u2014 Noah Millman, The Week , 11 Feb. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1893, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1647, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172109"
},
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"type":[
"idiom"
],
"definitions":{
": to blame":[
"If the plan fails I will hold you responsible .",
"\u2014 often + for He holds me responsible for the project's failure."
]
},
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-173931"
},
"holy order":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": major order":[
"\u2014 usually used in plural"
],
": one of the orders of the ministry in the Anglican or Episcopal church":[],
": the rite or sacrament of ordination":[
"\u2014 usually used in plural"
]
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"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-180715"
},
"holly green":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a dark yellowish green that is greener, stronger, and very slightly darker than average palm green, greener, lighter, and stronger than deep chrome green or average hunter green, and greener and deeper than golf green":[],
": a moderate olive green that is yellower and paler than forest green and yellower, lighter, and stronger than cypress or Lincoln green":[]
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": ace entry 1 sense 4":[]
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"first_known_use":{
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"noun"
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"first_known_use":{
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"noun"
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": a glycoside that yields only glycoses on hydrolysis \u2014 compare heteroside":[]
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"\u02c8h\u00e4l\u0259\u02ccs\u012bd",
"\u02c8h\u014dl-"
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"type":[
"idiom"
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"It's better to hold such information close to the vest .",
"She tends to keep her opinions close to her chest ."
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"idiom"
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"We disagree about many things, but I don't hold it/that against you."
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-194054"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a tall widely cultivated biennial or perennial herb ( Alcea rosea synonym Althaea rosea ) of the mallow family that has large coarse rounded leaves and tall spikes of showy flowers and that is probably of Asian origin":[]
},
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"\u02c8h\u00e4-l\u0113-\u02cch\u00e4k",
"-\u02cch\u022fk"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Inspect new hollyhock plants for rust symptoms prior to purchase. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 Feb. 2022",
"To avoid problems with hollyhock rust in the future: Do not use seeds from infected plants. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 Feb. 2022",
"Flowers to start from seed now: Fibrous begonias, rhodochitons, hollyhock and lupine. \u2014 Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News , 3 Mar. 2022",
"New Mexico identified onion, cucumber, tomato, radish, peppergrass, alfalfa, corn, lettuce, hollyhock , and spearmint seeds. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 8 Oct. 2021",
"This group primarily includes hollyhock , delphinium, columbine and foxglove. \u2014 Dan Gill, NOLA.com , 25 Nov. 2020",
"Phlox, hollyhock , foxglove, lantana, and butterfly bush are all good choices. \u2014 Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens , 18 June 2020",
"Representations of Barnsdall's favorite flower, hollyhock , appear on furniture and windows throughout the home. \u2014 Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful , 6 Apr. 2020",
"Hosta, grasses and daylily can produce six or more, while hollyhock and coral bells may only yield three. \u2014 oregonlive , 24 Mar. 2020"
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"Middle English holihoc marshmallow, from holi holy + hoc mallow, from Old English":""
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"1548, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-202924"
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"intransitive verb"
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"stopped traveling and holed in at a motel"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-203417"
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"idiom"
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"You don't have to go if you don't want to. No one's holding a gun to your head ."
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-205626"
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"noun"
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": the supernatural beings of the sacred world who in the religion of the Navahos have great power to help or harm humans":[
"\u2014 contrasted with Earth People"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-205832"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"the Lord, the Holy One of Israel",
"\u2014 Isaiah 10:20 (Revised Standard Version)"
],
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"and behold, a watcher, a holy one , came down from heaven",
"\u2014 Daniel 4:13 (Revised Standard Version)"
],
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"the Holy One of God",
"\u2014 Mark 1:24 (Revised Standard Version)"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210019"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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": producing or being a secretion resulting from lysis of secretory cells":[
"holocrine sebaceous glands"
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"-\u02cckr\u0113n",
"\u02c8h\u00e4-",
"\u02c8h\u014d-l\u0259-kr\u0259n",
"-\u02cckr\u012bn",
"\u02c8h\u00e4l-\u0259-"
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"borrowed from French olocrine (later holocrine ), from olo- holo- + -crine, from the stem of Greek kr\u012b\u0301nein \"to separate, choose, decide\" \u2014 more at certain entry 1":""
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"circa 1905, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-212306"
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"type":[
"idiom"
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": to go no further : to stop":[
"Hold it right there. Where do you think you're going"
]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-215404"
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"adjective"
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"\u2014 used of an approach shot in golf"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-221702"
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"adjective",
"noun"
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": characterized by complete metamorphosis":[
"holometabolous insects"
],
"\u2014 compare hemimetabolous":[
"holometabolous insects"
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"\u02cch\u014d-l\u014d-m\u0259-\u02c8tab-\u0259-l\u0259s",
"\u02cch\u00e4l-\u014d-",
"\u02cch\u014d-l\u014d-m\u0259-\u02c8ta-b\u0259-l\u0259s",
"\u02cch\u00e4-"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The hemimetabolous species, as well as some of the holometabolous species such as the honey bees, have the same diet throughout their lives. \u2014 Popular Science , 20 Oct. 2020"
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"ultimately from Greek hol- + metabolos changeable, from metabol\u0113 change \u2014 more at metabolism":""
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"1870, in the meaning defined above":""
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"geographical name"
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"city in southwestern Massachusetts north of Springfield population 39,880":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-223927"
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"noun"
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"\u02c8h\u00e4-l\u0259-\u02ccd\u0101-",
"\u02c8h\u00e4-l\u0259-d\u0113-\u02ccm\u0101-k\u0259r"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The first German hotels are set to reopen in coming days in North and Baltic Sea resorts, and European destinations are ready to welcome holidaymakers , the CEO said. \u2014 Richard Weiss, Bloomberg.com , 12 May 2020",
"Airlines have struggled after a spike in new coronavirus cases were reported in Italy, South Korea and Iran, spooking holidaymakers and sparking the cancellation of business trips. \u2014 Time , 5 Mar. 2020",
"But as the globe shuts down because of covid-19 and holidaymakers stay at home, the land of smiles feels glum. \u2014 The Economist , 2 Apr. 2020",
"Others are holidaymakers taking advantage of the long annual break. \u2014 Nectar Gan, CNN , 1 Feb. 2020",
"Dam\u00fcls is popular with German and Dutch holidaymakers , who like its traditional wooden huts with kitsch interiors, though locals come here for the off-piste. \u2014 Sam Haddad, 1843 , 26 Feb. 2020",
"The $500 million cruise liner that became an incubator for the novel coronavirus will resume service again soon with its next group of holidaymakers , according to its operator, though only after a thorough cleaning. \u2014 Alastair Gale, WSJ , 20 Feb. 2020",
"Many of these holidaymakers were traveling abroad for the first time, according to local business people working in the tourism sector. \u2014 Julie Zaugg, CNN , 4 Oct. 2019",
"The number of younger package holidaymakers is growing particularly fast. \u2014 The Economist , 23 Sep. 2019"
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"first_known_use":{
"1836, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-224141"
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"adjective"
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": having no hole or aperture":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-225538"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a dock worker who works in a ship's hold in loading or unloading a ship":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-230227"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": oregon grape":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-000906"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":{
": covered with silky hair : entirely sericeous":[]
},
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"\"+"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-004800"
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"type":[
"combining form"
],
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"holo hedral"
],
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"hol andric"
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"Greek, from holos whole \u2014 more at safe":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-010859"
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"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
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"an important Muslim holiday"
],
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"\u2014 often used in the phrase on holiday going on holiday \u2014 often used in plural spent the summer holidays in Spain"
],
": a period of exemption or relief":[
"corporations enjoying a tax holiday"
],
"Eleanora 1915\u20131959 Billie American jazz singer":[],
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"will holiday this year at the shore"
]
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"\u02c8h\u00e4-l\u0259-\u02ccd\u0101",
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"hols",
"leave",
"recess",
"vacation"
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"vacation"
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"Noun",
"July 4 is a national holiday in the U.S.",
"The stock market is closed tomorrow because it's a holiday .",
"She'll have four weeks' holiday next year.",
"We're planning on taking a holiday in the Caribbean.",
"Verb",
"She likes holidaying in the Caribbean.",
"saw kangaroos while holidaying in Australia",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Another week, another retail therapy holiday for scooping up deals on end-of-season inventory and summer-ready goods. \u2014 Danielle Directo-meston, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 June 2022",
"And there are rules about how to properly count the number of days when the deadline falls on a holiday (or even on a day when the Tax Court is closed due to inclement weather). \u2014 Amber Gray-fenner, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"The federal holiday commemorating what happened on June 19, 1865, was Monday, June 20. \u2014 Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al , 23 June 2022",
"Don\u2019t forget to wash down all of these adorable desserts with our Halloween cocktails for a creative, creepy holiday ! \u2014 Taylor Worden, Good Housekeeping , 21 June 2022",
"The Juneteenth holiday on Sunday, which caused some government offices and businesses to be closed on Monday, may have also affected Monday's new case numbers, Tumlison said. \u2014 Andy Davis, Arkansas Online , 21 June 2022",
"There isn\u2019t much a president can do to quickly lower the price of gas, but President Biden could call for a gas tax holiday , which could reduce the price at the pump by around 18 cents a gallon. \u2014 Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver , 21 June 2022",
"The holiday , which started in Texas, became a federal holiday last year. \u2014 Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun , 19 June 2022",
"The nation's youngest federal holiday , Juneteenth, is Sunday. \u2014 Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The surge came, worse than imagined, with Americans determined to holiday their way through the new year like the pandemic didn\u2019t exist. \u2014 Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY , 26 Jan. 2021",
"For the world\u2019s beleaguered airline industry, the measures give travelers yet another reason to think twice before taking to the skies and will probably end Britons\u2019 plans of holidaying abroad this summer. \u2014 James Ludden, Bloomberg.com , 12 May 2020",
"Morrison returned home early from holidaying in Hawaii ahead of Christmas following the death of two firefighters and amid criticism his government was doing too little to address climate change and a country-wide drought. \u2014 NBC News , 29 Dec. 2019",
"Macey Ellison, 18, and her family, who were holidaying in Mallacoota, in the southeastern state of Victoria, took cover in a friend\u2019s small boat for more than four hours as the fire threatened the town. \u2014 Rachel Pannett, WSJ , 1 Jan. 2020",
"Check out the video above to see what makes some of your faves\u2019 holidays the Blackest celebration of all time. \u2014 Danielle Young, Essence , 24 Dec. 2019",
"Ticking off yet another Caribbean island, Queen Elizabeth II visited Mustique (where William and Kate are currently rumoured to be holidaying ) with her sister Princess Margaret in 1977. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 26 July 2019",
"The stimulus measures include incentives for Thais to holiday in their country, as well as extra support for farmers, small businesses and the poor. \u2014 The Economist , 22 Aug. 2019",
"According to the Sun, the Derby County manager, who has been holidaying in France with his family, is set to meet Roman Abramovich on his yacht in St Tropez this week for contractual talks. \u2014 SI.com , 18 June 2019"
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"Middle English, from Old English h\u0101ligd\u00e6g , from h\u0101lig holy + d\u00e6g day":"Noun and Verb"
},
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1869, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-012100"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": meteoric iron or a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter":[]
},
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"\u00a6h\u014dl\u014d+",
"\u00a6h\u00e4l\u014d"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-013433"
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"definitions":{
": water blessed by a priest and used as a purifying sacramental":[]
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"first_known_use":{
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"noun"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-031439"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
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"\u2014 used of a rock (as granite)"
]
},
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"\u00a6h\u00e4l\u014d"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary hol- + crystalline":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-040700"
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"holocoenotic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
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"\u2014 used of the impact of a complex environment on living organisms"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6h\u00e4l\u014ds\u0113\u00a6n\u00e4tik",
"\u00a6h\u014dl-"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"hol- + coen- + -otic":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-043516"
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"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to play one's ball into the hole in golf":[]
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1867, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-072126"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": having a completely tubular siphon":[
"\u2014 used of the Dibranchia"
]
},
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"\"+"
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-074559"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":{
": being or belonging to ordinary sedimentary rocks as distinguished from tuffs or pyroclastic rocks":[]
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"\u00a6h\u00e4l\u014d\u00a6klastik"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary hol- + -clastic":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-083905"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": ant tree":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"probably alteration of holey pole ; from its hollow stems":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-095927"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": olive oil blessed by a bishop for use in a sacrament or sacramental":[]
},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-102558"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-111203"
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"interjection"
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"definitions":{},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Spanish":""
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-113835"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": blessed thistle sense 1":[],
": milk thistle sense 1":[]
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-114153"
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"holodactylic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": having all the feet dactyls except the last":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6h\u014dl-",
"\u00a6h\u00e4l\u014d(\u02cc)dak\u00a6tilik"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle Greek holodaktylos (from Greek hol- + daktylos dactyl) + English -ic":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-124957"
},
"holometaboly":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": holometabolism":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary hol- + metaboly":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-132355"
},
"hole up":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to hide out in or as if in a hole or cave":[],
": to place in or as if in a refuge or hiding place":[]
},
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"synonyms":[
"hide",
"lie",
"lurk",
"repose",
"skulk"
],
"antonyms":[
"appear"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"we'll hole up in the cellar and wait out the hurricane",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Unlike bare-bones tepees, this one comes with an ozan, an interior awning that catches any water that may fall in through the smoke hole up top. \u2014 Alison Van Houten, Outside Online , 1 Oct. 2020",
"The didn\u2019t simply hole up in the beautiful mansion. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 9 May 2022",
"There\u2019s no shortage of chic resorts to hole up in on St. Barth, but as of tomorrow, an even more exclusive accommodation will be available on the Caribbean paradise. \u2014 Alia Akkam, Robb Report , 28 Feb. 2022",
"The story focus on a forlorn band of prostitutes, forced to pick sides when the American military invades and the soldiers hole up in their seaside brothel. \u2014 Emiliano De Pablos, Variety , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Now some people will drink too much, drive too fast, or hole up and watch TV. \u2014 Florence Williams, The Atlantic , 1 Feb. 2022",
"After scoring 32 points in the pivotal Game Five, the new face of the NBA FaceTimed his brother, who was forced to hole up in a hotel room. \u2014 Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone , 18 Nov. 2021",
"And shortly after school started \u2014 around the same time Finau and her kids had to hole up in the quarantine and isolation hotel \u2014 the clinic saw a surge in cases. \u2014 Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 8 Nov. 2021",
"Luckily, Alex\u2019s family has a skyscraper in the middle of refurbishment, allowing the quintet to hole up in its half-finished penthouse suites and figure things out. \u2014 Richard Kuipers, Variety , 3 Nov. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1875, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-133105"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": holometabolous":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"hol- + metabolic":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-133216"
},
"holandric":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": transmitted by or being a gene in the nonhomologous portion of the Y chromosome":[
"a holandric trait"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"h\u00e4-",
"h\u014d-\u02c8lan-drik, h\u00e4-",
"h\u014d-\u02c8lan-drik"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary, from hol- + andr- + -ic":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1930, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-145741"
},
"holoblastic":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": characterized by complete cleavage that divides the whole egg into distinct and separate blastomeres \u2014 compare meroblastic":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u014d-l\u0259-\u02c8bla-stik",
"\u02cch\u00e4l-\u0259-",
"\u02cch\u014d-l\u0259-\u02c8blas-tik",
"\u02cch\u00e4-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1872, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-151920"
},
"holy of holies":{
"type":[
"noun phrase"
],
"definitions":{
": the innermost and most sacred chamber of the Jewish tabernacle and temple":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"translation of Late Latin sanctum sanctorum , translation of Hebrew q\u014ddhesh haq-q\u014fdh\u0101sh\u012bm":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1641, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-162014"
},
"holiday season":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the time from late November through January when several holidays (such as Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year's Eve) happen":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-163027"
},
"hollyhock delphinium":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of various cultivated larkspurs with narrow flower clusters forming spires":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-165405"
},
"hole through":{
"type":[
"intransitive verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to connect two underground tunnels by removing the rock that divides them":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-171259"
},
"holosaprophyte":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a totally saprophytic organism : an obligate saprophyte \u2014 compare hemisaprophyte":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary hol- + saprophyte ; originally formed in German":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-172923"
},
"holding-up hammer":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a riveter's dolly":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-180231"
},
"holy day":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a day set aside for special religious observance":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-181744"
},
"holobenthic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": inhabiting the deep sea during all stages of life":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"hol- + benthic":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-201704"
},
"holandry":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the quality or state of being holandric":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4\u02cclandr\u0113",
"\u02c8h\u014d\u02cc-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-203220"
},
"holy cow":{
"type":[
"idiom"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-220230"
},
"holography":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":{
": the art or process of making or using a hologram":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"h\u014d-\u02c8l\u00e4-gr\u0259-f\u0113",
"h\u014d-\u02c8l\u00e4g-r\u0259-f\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Users can sample Super X-Fi headphone holography on local music content inside their phones. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2022",
"The new Sound Blaster Katana V2 is Creative\u2019s latest flagship soundbar for gamers and includes Super X-Fi headphone holography . \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 22 Sep. 2021",
"The soundstage created by Super X-Fi headphone holography is positively eerie and the sound appears to float around you. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 22 Sep. 2021",
"This is an example of what physicists call holography : a lower-dimensional space giving rise to a higher-dimensional space, like a flat hologram producing a 3D image. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 7 Sep. 2021",
"The special Creative Super X-FI holography headphones connect with the soundbar using a Bluetooth dongle that plugs into a special USB port at the rear of the soundbar. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 6 May 2021",
"In the final years of his life, to better understand the wave function more generally, Hawking and his collaborators started applying holography \u2014 a blockbuster new approach that treats space-time as a hologram. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 6 June 2019",
"There\u2019s a lot of commentary about whether holography , the string landscape \u2014 all sorts of things \u2014 are tethered enough to experiment. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 10 Sep. 2019",
"Curved space-times emerge quite naturally from entanglement in tensor networks via holography . \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine , 28 Apr. 2015"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1964, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-224714"
},
"Holometabola":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a group comprising all insects that have complete metamorphosis":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from hol- + Metabola":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-230238"
},
"Holy Cross Day":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": holy-rood day":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-230443"
},
"hologonia":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an order of Nematoda comprising forms in which the germinal area extends the whole length of the gonad \u2014 compare telogonia":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u014dl-",
"\u02cch\u00e4l\u0259\u02c8g\u014dn\u0113\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from hol- + -gonia (from Greek gonos offspring, procreation, genitals)":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-231957"
},
"Holy Roller":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a member of one of the Protestant sects whose worship meetings are characterized by spontaneous expressions of emotional excitement":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1841, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-235430"
},
"Holy Roman Empire":{
"type":[
"geographical name",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an empire consisting primarily of a loose confederation of German and Italian territories under the suzerainty of an emperor and existing from the 9th or 10th century to 1806":[],
"realm of varying extent in central Europe in the medieval and modern periods that had what is now Germany as its chief component":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1698, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-000645"
},
"Holosomata":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a division of ascidians comprising compound ascidians with zooids of which the bodies are not divided into regions and sometimes including the simple ascidians":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u014dl-",
"\u02cch\u00e4l\u014d\u02c8s\u014dm\u0259t\u0259",
"-\u02c8s\u00e4m-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from hol- + Greek -somata":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001804"
},
"holographic":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or being a hologram":[
"holographic displays",
"Daryl Hall says the large, garish holographic photo of Martin and Lewis that he displays in his otherwise rustic farmhouse appeals to his \"perverse sense of humor.\"",
"\u2014 Steve Dougherty",
"\u2026 the latter includes a way-cool, digital-face wristwatch with a holographic image of Pinocchio \u2026",
"\u2014 Steve Daly"
],
": written entirely in the handwriting of its author":[
"Even when a holographic \"codicil\" appeared on the same page as the typewritten will, both were allowed \u2026",
"\u2014 William M. McGovern, Jr. et al.",
"The prose of the holograph letters \u2026 is reproduced faithfully with all its idiosyncrasies of spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure \u2026",
"\u2014 John P. Sisk"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u00e4-",
"\u02cch\u014d-l\u0259-\u02c8gra-fik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"holography + -ic entry 1 ; (in sense 2) holograph entry 2 + -ic entry 1":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1728, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-002509"
},
"Holodiscus":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a small genus of shrubs (family Rosaceae) of western North America that resemble spirea and have flowers in a pendant pyramidal panicle and achenes enclosed in the calyx":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u014dl-",
"\u02cch\u00e4l\u014d\u02c8disk\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from hol- + -discus":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-003655"
},
"hollyhock tree":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an Australian shrub ( Hibiscus splendens ) with showy rose-colored flowers":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-004917"
},
"hold/hang on a minute":{
"type":[
"idiom"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-012554"
},
"hologram":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4-",
"\u02c8h\u014d-l\u0259-\u02ccgram",
"\u02c8h\u00e4l-\u0259-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After the family arrived into the royal box, the show began with the Gold State Coach making its procession down The Mall, here featuring a hologram of Queen Elizabeth II on her coronation day in 1953. \u2014 Vogue , 5 June 2022",
"An online rendering of the TSX entrance showed a giant hologram of a sneaker beamed down from the ceiling. \u2014 New York Times , 28 May 2022",
"Instead, Aloy pulls out a hologram of Rost, her adopted father\u2014the one who died early in the first game. \u2014 Eric Ravenscraft, Wired , 17 Mar. 2022",
"While Leia reaching out in hologram form to Obi-Wan at the start of A New Hope now in many ways makes even more sense considering their current joint adventure, Leia's introductory line of the message does not exactly track. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
"During the experience, participants will find themselves in a room coveredwith Taylor's image where a hologram of her mother appears and speaks. \u2014 Thomas Birmingham, The Courier-Journal , 7 June 2022",
"The moment was especially poignant since the 96-year-old hadn't been at any of the weekend's events since Thursday, and her appearance here had been questionable, with a hologram of her waving from the Gold State Carriage at the start of the parade. \u2014 Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure , 6 June 2022",
"Chicago rapper Chief Keef famously appeared via hologram at a 2016 concert in Indiana -- an event that was subsequently shut down by police. \u2014 Deena Zaru, ABC News , 16 Feb. 2022",
"At one point, a Stormtrooper appeared as a hologram in the foreground of the screen. \u2014 Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"holo- + -gram":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1949, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-013320"
},
"hologonidium":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": soredium":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6h\u014dl\u014d+",
"\u00a6h\u00e4l\u014d"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from hol- + gonidium":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-015343"
},
"holomictic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": undergoing a complete circulation that extends to the deepest parts during overturn":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6h\u014dl-",
"\u00a6h\u00e4l\u014d\u00a6miktik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"hol- + -mictic (from Greek miktos mixed; akin to Greek misgein to mix)":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-024439"
},
"holeproof":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": designed to be proof against holes worn in by ordinary use":[
"holeproof stockings"
],
": having no flaws or weak points":[
"the evidence against the prisoner was holeproof"
],
": designed to prevent evasion or subversion":[
"\u2014 used of a law, statute, provision, or system asked them to formulate laws that were holeproof and would stop graft and corruption in the city"
]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-050706"
},
"hollow back":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-050823"
}
}
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