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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

inhold en · VERB

Etymology

From in- + hold. Compare Old English onhealdan (“to hold, keep, maintain”). More at in, hold.

Meanings

  1. To contain, hold in.
    • Sound implicates these obscure tethers, which connect sound to noise, thereby giving sound its sense. The implicated difference inholds an obscure reserve of sense. 2002, Brian Massumi, A shock to thought: expression after Deleuze and Guattari:
  2. To possess inherently, contain in oneself.
    • c. 1604-1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, Cynthia If to the living were my muse addressed, Or did my mind her own spirit still inhold

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
inholding Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
inholds Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
inheld Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
inheld Tense=Past lexicographic
inholden Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part obsolete lexicographic

Relateds

inholding · inholder

Synonyms

possess