单词 | to catch, get, lay, lose, seize, hold |
释义 | > as lemmasto catch, get, lay, lose, seize, hold a. The action or an act of keeping in hand, or grasping by some physical means; grasp: esp. in to catch, get, lay, lose, seize, hold (see also these verbs). Also, an opportunity of holding, sometimes almost concrete, something to hold by. (The main current sense.) ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > [noun] holda1300 holding1545 handhold1655 a1300 Cursor Mundi 24451 To climb had i na hald. a1350 Childh. Jesus 652 He tolde, How Jesues picher with outen holde Hangude on þe sonne bem. a1400–50 Alexander 1440 And qua sa leddirs had nane..Wald gett þam hald with þair hend & on-loft clyme. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxiv. [cxvi.] 3 The paynes of hell gat holde vpon me. 1537 W. Tyndale Expos. Epist. John 80 The deuel can ketch no hold on them. 1568 E. Tilney Brief Disc. Mariage sig. Civv See I pray you..how soone this Ladie, hath gotten holde of that sentence. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. x. 86 Wrestlers..annointed with oyle.. to the intent to give or to take the lesse hold the one of the other. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 238 Let goe thy hold . View more context for this quotation 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 32 Like men drowning, that get hold on every twig. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler ii. 53 Leather-mouth'd fishes, of which a hook does scarce ever lose his hold . View more context for this quotation a1684 R. Leighton Pract. Comm. 1st Epist. Peter (1693) I. 222 As the stepping of Children when they begin to go by hold. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 167 The Officers..were laid hold on. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §239 (note) Every force exerted to drive the wad out..tends to make it take the stronger hold. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. xvi. 169 The..hand..suddenly quits hold. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe ii. 102 The hold was generally firm when the fissures were not filled with ice. < as lemmas |
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