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Definition: TO HOLD ON |
TO HOLD ON1. To hold in being, continuance or position; as, to hold a rider on. |
Crosswords: TO HOLD ON |
| Etymologies containing "TO HOLD ON": tenor. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We are advancing constantly and we're not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy! We're going to hold on to him by the nose, and we're gonna kick 'em in the ass! (Patton; writing credit: Ladislas Farago; Omar N. Bradley) | |
Lyrics | You might need something to hold on to (HUMAN TOUCH; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) I am trying to hold on to you (Emotional; performing artist: Carl Thomas) To hold on to these moments as they pass (A Long December; performing artist: Counting Crows) I just want some strong man to hold on to (Muscles; performing artist: Diana Ross) I knew I had to hold on (Waiting For Tonight; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez) | |
Song Titles | Trying to Hold On to My Woman (performing artist: Lamon Dozier) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Language | Translations for "TO HOLD ON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Arabic | تَشَبّثَ. (various references) | ||||
German | warten (am Telefon). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | kitart (hold on, insist, keep on, last out, persevere, to carry on, to hang in there, to hold out, to hold to, to last, to last out, to maintain one's point, to persist in, to stick by), helytáll (be correct, do well, to hold one's ground). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 逃'切る (to get away, to manage to hold on), 掴まる (to grasp, to hold on to), 捉まる (to grasp, to hold on to). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | つかまる (to be arrested, to be caught, to grasp, to hold on to), に'きる (to get away, to manage to hold on). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay oldhay onay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-h-l-n-o-o-o-t" | |
-3 letters: tondo. | |
-4 letters: dolt, doth, hold, holt, hood, hoot, loon, loot, loth, nolo, onto, told, tool, toon. | |
-5 letters: dol, don, dot, hod, hon, hot, loo, lot, nod, noh, noo, not, nth, oho, old, ooh, oot, tho, tod, ton, too. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-h-l-n-o-o-o-t" | |
+3 letters: notochordal. | |
+4 letters: unorthodoxly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 48 4F 4C 44 4F 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01001000 01001111 01001100 01000100 00100000 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   H O L D   O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0048 004F 004C 0044 004F 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)544924249463824948 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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