different between holding vs gripping

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?ld?-?ng, IPA^(key): /?ho?ld??/
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [?h???d??]
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [?h???d??]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?ho??d??]
• Rhymes: -??ld??
• Hyphenation: hold?ing

Noun

holding (plural holdings)

1. Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
   • 1980, Joseph D. Dwyer, Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe (page 9)

     Although this survey lists only a small number of representative materials in the Hoover Library's Baltic Collection, a comprehensive view of the library's holdings can be gained from the Hoover Institution's card catalog or its printed equivalent

   • 2009, The Economist, Law and order in Italy: Trouble with figures

     Italy's right-wing prime minister was about to cure his biggest headache by selling the state's holding in a troubled airline, Alitalia.

   • 2014, D. K. Acharya, Standard Methods of Contract Bridge Complete (page 378)

     The defender at third position is supposed to keep the partner informed of his holdings in that suit.

2. A determination of law made by a court.
3. A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
   • 1596, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, V. i. 3:

     Take again / From this my hand, as holding of the Pope / Your sovereign greatness and authority.

4. (obsolete) That which holds, binds, or influences.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burke to this entry?)

5. (obsolete) Logic; consistency.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, IV. ii. 27:

     This has no holding, / To swear by him whom I protest to love / That I will work against him.

6. (obsolete) The burden or chorus of a song.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, II. vii. 109:

     Make battery to our ears with the loud music; / The while I'll place you; then the boy shall sing. / The holding every man shall beat as loud / As his strong sides can volley.

7. (in texts about Russia, nonstandard) A holding company, or other kind of company (by back-translation from Russian ??????? (xolding)).

Coordinate terms

• (determination): finding

Translations

Descendants

• ? Polish: holding

Verb

holding

1. present participle of hold

Derived terms

Anagrams

• hodling

French

Noun

holding m or f (plural holdings)

1. holding company

Polish

Etymology

From English holding.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?x?l.dink/

Noun

holding m inan

1. (business) holding company

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) holdingowy

Further reading

• holding in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• holding in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

holding m (plural holdings)

1. holding company

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????p??/
• Rhymes: -?p??

Adjective

gripping (comparative more gripping, superlative most gripping)

1. Which catches someone's attention; exciting

   a gripping action film

   Synonyms: interesting, absorbing, fascinating

Verb

gripping

1. present participle of grip

Noun

gripping (plural grippings)

1. Obsolete form of griping. (pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines)
   • 1727, Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies

     The same Night it began to operate by Grippings and Sweating, and he being bred a Surgeon, took some Medicines to correct the Grippings, which in some Measure the Medicine did, but he lost his Appetite […]