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Definitions: Hold The Line |
Hold The LineVerb1. Hold the line on prices; keep the price of something constant. 2. Hold the phone line open; "Please hang on while I get your folder". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Hold The LineSynonyms: hang on (v), hold on (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hold The Line |
| English words defined with "hold the line": end ♦ Ground tier ♦ hang on, hold on ♦ On liking ♦ Wrist drop. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hold the line": buffer overflow ♦ direct mapped cache ♦ Hierarchical Data Format. (references) |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | In other words, the Federal Government will hold the line on real spending. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hold the line | 16 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hold the line"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لا يقطع الاتصال, إنتظر على خط الهاتف, بقي على الخط. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | älä sulje puhelinta (hold on). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | rester en ligne, attendre en ligne, attendre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Bleiben sie am Apparat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | περιμένω στην γραμμή. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tartja a vonalat (hold on to), megtartja az állást. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oldhay ethay inelay no se retire. (various references) не вішайте трубку. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-h-i-l-l-n-o-t" | |
-3 letters: deletion, entoiled, nielloed. | |
-4 letters: eloined, hellion, helloed, hilloed, hotline, lentoid, lithoed, neolith, theelin, theelol. | |
-5 letters: denote, dentil, endite, entoil, eolith, ethion, etoile, heiled, helled, hented, hilled, hilted, hinted, hoiden, holden, hondle, honied, indole, lentil, lilted, lintel, lintol, nellie, niello, nilled, oleine, theine, tholed, tilled, toiled, tolled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 6F 6C 64      54 68 65      4C 69 6E 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101111 01101100 01100100 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01001100 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H o l d   T h e   L i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 006F 006C 0064      0054 0068 0065      004C 0069 006E 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)428178702547471246758071 |
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