legal |
1. adj. Relating to the law or to lawyers. | |
legal profession | |
2. adj. Having its basis in the law. | |
legal precedent | |
3. adj. Being allowed or prescribed by law. | |
legal motion | |
4. adj. (informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age. | |
5. n. (informal) The legal department of a company. | |
Legal wants this in writing. | |
6. n. (US, Canada) Paper in sheets 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 mm × 355.6 mm). | |
7. n. A spy who is attached to, and ostensibly employed by, an embassy, military outpost, etc. | |
holding |
1. n. Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds. | |
2. n. A determination of law made by a court. | |
3. n. A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another. | |
4. n. (obsolete) That which holds, binds, or influences. | |
5. n. (obsolete) Logic; consistency. | |
6. n. (obsolete) The burden or chorus of a song. | |
7. n. (in texts about Russia, nonstandard) A holding company, or other kind of company (by back-translation from Russian (m, ru, холдинг)). | |
8. v. present participle of hold | |
They were caught holding hands in the dark. | |
hold |
1. v. To grasp or grip. | |
Hold the pencil like this. | |
2. v. To contain or store. | |
This package holds six bottles. | |
3. v. To maintain or keep to a position or state.: | |
4. v. To have and keep possession of something. | |
Hold my coat for me. The general ordered the colonel to hold his position at all costs. | |
5. v. To reserve. | |
Hold a table for us at 7:00. | |
6. v. To cause to wait or delay. | |
Hold the elevator. | |
7. v. To detain. | |
Hold the suspect in this cell. | |
8. v. (intransitive) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person). | |
to hold true; The proposition holds. | |
9. v. To keep oneself in a particular state. | |
to hold firm; to hold opinions | |
10. v. To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain. | |
11. v. To bear, carry, or manage. | |
He holds himself proudly erect. Hold your head high. | |
12. v. (intransitive, mostly, imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop. | |
13. v. (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued. | |
14. v. To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function. | |
to hold one's bladder; to hold one's breath | |
15. v. To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.: | |
16. v. To maintain, to consider, to opine. | |
17. v. To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions. | |
He was held responsible for the actions of those under his command. I'll hold him to that promise. | |
18. v. To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain. | |
19. v. To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain. | |
20. v. (archaic) To restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back. | |
21. v. (tennis, ambitransitive) To win one's own service game. | |
22. v. To take place, to occur. | |
23. v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice). | |
Elections will be held on the first Sunday of next month. | |
24. v. (archaic) To derive right or title. | |
25. n. A grasp or grip. | |
Keep a firm hold on the handlebars. | |
26. n. A place where animals are held for safety | |
27. n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with. | |
Senator X placed a hold on the bill, then went to the library and placed a hold on a book. | |
28. n. Something reserved or kept. | |
We have a hold here for you. | |
29. n. Power over someone or something. | |
30. n. The ability to persist. | |
31. n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair. | |
32. n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent. | |
He got him in a tight hold and pinned him to the mat. | |
33. n. (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time | |
34. n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold. | |
The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume. | |
35. n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold. | |
As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015 | |
36. n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken. | |
37. n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet. | |
38. n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin. | |
39. n. (video games, dated) A pause facility. | |
40. n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy. | |
41. n. (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team. | |
42. adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true. | |
43. n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold). | |
Put that in the hold. | |
a |
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
4. art. The same; one. | |
We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
Stand a tiptoe. | |
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
Torn a pieces. | |
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
A God’s name. | |
13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
To set the people a worke. | |
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
The times, they are a-changin'. | |
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
Jacob, when he was a dying | |
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
The name of John a Gaunt. | |
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
particular |
1. adj. (also non-comparable) | |
2. adj. (obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial. | |
3. adj. Specific; discrete; concrete. | |
I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do. | |
We knew it was named after John Smith, but nobody knows which particular John Smith. | |
4. adj. Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing. | |
I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism. | |
5. adj. (obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential. | |
6. adj. Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions). | |
My five favorite places are, in no particular order, New York, Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and London. | |
I didn't have any particular interest in the book. | |
He brought no particular news. | |
She was the particular belle of the party. | |
7. adj. (comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious. | |
He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back. | |
Women are more particular about their appearance. | |
8. adj. Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise. | |
a full and particular account of an accident | |
9. adj. (legal) Containing a part only; limited. | |
a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder | |
10. adj. (legal) Holding a particular estate. | |
a particular tenant | |
11. adj. (logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject. | |
a particular proposition, opposed to "universal", e.g. (particular affirmative) "Some men are wise"; (particular negative) "Some men are not wise". | |
12. n. A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point. | |
13. n. (obsolete) A person's own individual case. | |
14. n. (now philosophy, chiefly in plural) A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.) | |
estate |
1. n. The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person. | |
2. n. (now rare, archaic) State; condition. | |
3. n. (archaic) Status, rank. | |
4. n. (archaic) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions. | |
5. n. (obsolete) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman. | |
6. n. (historical) A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights (Estates of the realm). | |
7. n. (legal) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land. | |
8. n. An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership. | |
9. n. The landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government. | |
10. n. (sometimes pejorative) A housing estate. | |
11. n. (automotive) A station wagon; a car with a tailgate (or liftgate) and storage space to the rear of the seating which is coterminous with the passenger compartment (and often extensible into that compa | |
12. n. (obsolete) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs. | |
13. adj. (jewelry, euphemism) Previously owned; secondhand. | |
an estate diamond; estate jewelry | |
14. v. (obsolete, transitive) To give an estate to. | |
15. v. (obsolete, transitive) To bestow upon. | |