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hold

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verb

  1. bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
  2. have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
  3. be pertinent or relevant or applicable
  4. hold the attention of
  5. be valid, applicable, or true
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noun

  1. the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo
  2. a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
  3. a cell in a jail or prison
  4. time during which some action is awaited
  5. the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
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When the new foods that came from the Americas - peppers, summer squash and especially tomatoes - took hold in the region, a number of closely related dishes were born, including what we call ratatouille - and a man from La Mancha calls pisto, an Ikarian Greek calls soufiko and a Turk calls turlu.

If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex.

On land, giant reservoirs holding saline water could be built to offset the rise in sea levels caused by the melting of the polar ice-caps.

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scratchpad

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noun

  1. (computer science) a high-speed internal memory used for temporary storage of preliminary information

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