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HELD
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Occupied or in the control of; often used in combination
Example:
enemy-held territory
Classified under:
Participle:
hold (take and maintain control over, often by violent means)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb hold
Context examples:
The World Athletics Championships are held every other year.
(Norway's Warholm wins gold in 400 m hurdles at World Championships in Doha, Wikinews)
I held that life was a ferment, a yeasty something which devoured life that it might live, and that living was merely successful piggishness.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But the king came up to her, and held out his hand and danced with her; and he thought in his heart, “I never saw any one half so beautiful.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
These relationships held across participant’s age, sex, diabetes status, and use of aspirin or cholesterol-lowering medications.
(Omega-3s linked with lower risk of fatal heart attacks, NIH)
Memories of recent events may be held by a small number of neurons distributed across the brain’s hippocampus, a new study suggests.
(Storing memories of recent events, NIH)
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Inoffensive ranchers in remote valleys were held up by armed men and compelled to identify themselves.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It can refer to the volume that can be held, such as lung capacity, or the number of people that can be contained in a room or building.
(Capacity, NCI Thesaurus)
A catheter is used to place the BCG solution into the bladder where it is held for about two hours.
(BCG solution, NCI Dictionary)
It is given through a catheter that is placed into the bladder where the solution is held for about two hours.
(bacillus Calmette-Guérin solution, NCI Dictionary)
