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Hold Close

Definition: Hold Close

Hold Close

Verb

1. Hold firmly, usually with one's hands; "She clutched my arm when she got scared".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Hold Close

Synonyms: cling to (v), clutch (v), hold tight (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Hold Close

English words defined with "hold close": confine, cuddle ♦ hold ♦ jaw, jaws ♦ restrain, Retinaculum. (references)

Specialty definitions using "hold close": BED LASTER ♦ CEMENT-BOAT-AND-BARGE LOADER, COKE DRAWER, HAND ♦ FERRYBOAT CAPTAIN ♦ heater tender, hydraulic-press operator ♦ injection molder, outer sole ♦ lasting-machine operator, bed ♦ SCARF GLUER, SCIMETAR, SOFTBALL CORE MOLDER, STRING LASTER ♦ THERMAL MOLDER, toe and heel laster ♦ Window. (references)

Anagrams: Hold Close

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-h-l-l-o-o-s"
	-1 letter: schooled.
	-2 letters: holloed, holloes, shooled.
	-3 letters: cellos, cholos, choose, closed, cooled, coshed, dholes, hellos, hollos, locoed, locoes, loosed, oodles, school, shooed, soloed.
	-4 letters: cello, cells, cholo, chose, clods, close, codes, coeds, cohos, colds, coled, coles, cooed, cools, decos, dells, dhole, dolce, doles, dolls, echos, hello, hells, helos, holds, holed, holes, hollo, hoods, hosed, hosel.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-h-l-l-o-o-s"
	+2 letters: chloralosed.
	+4 letters: policyholders.
	+5 letters: schoolchildren.
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.

Alternative Orthography: Hold Close

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 6F 6C 64 43 6C 6F 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01101111 01101100 01100100 00100000 01000011 01101100 01101111 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#111 &#108 &#100 &#32 &#67 &#108 &#111 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 006F 006C 0064 0043 006C 006F 0073 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4281787023778818571

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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