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Hold The Line

Definitions: Hold The Line

Hold The Line

Verb

1. 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 Line

Synonyms: hang on (v), hold on (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Hold The Line

English words defined with "hold the line": endGround tierhang on, hold onOn likingWrist drop. (references)
Specialty definitions using "hold the line": buffer overflowdirect mapped cacheHierarchical Data Format. (references)

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Speeches: Hold The Line

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989In other words, the Federal Government will hold the line on real spending.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hold The Line

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  hold the line

16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hold The Line

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

   

Spanish

  

no se retire. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

не вішайте трубку. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Hold The Line

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Hold The Line


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

48 6F 6C 64      54 68 65      4C 69 6E 65

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

        

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

01001000 01101111 01101100 01100100 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01001100 01101001 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#111 &#108 &#100 &#32 &#84 &#104 &#101 &#32 &#76 &#105 &#110 &#101

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Speeches
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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