Anchor-hold
(n.) The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds. |
Anchor-hold
(n.) Hence: Firm hold: security. |
Control
(n.) A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register |
Control
(n.) That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder |
Control
(n.) Power or authority to check or restrain |
Control
(v. t.) To check by a counter register or duplicate account |
Control
(v. t.) To exercise restraining or governing influence over |
Hold
(n.) The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed. |
Hold
(v. t.) To cause to remain in a given situation, position, or relation, within certain limits, or the like |
Hold
(v. t.) To retain in one's keeping |
Hold
(v. t.) To have |
Hold
(v. t.) To impose restraint upon |
Hold
(v. t.) To maintain in being or action |
Hold
(v. t.) To prosecute, have, take, or join in, as something which is the result of united action |
Hold
(v. t.) To receive and retain |
Hold
(v. t.) To accept, as an opinion |
Hold
(v. t.) To consider |
Hold
(v. t.) To bear, carry, or manage |
Hold
(n. i.) In general, to keep one's self in a given position or condition |
Hold
(n. i.) Not to more |
Hold
(n. i.) Not to give way |
Hold
(n. i.) Not to fail or be found wanting |
Hold
(n. i.) Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant |
Hold
(n. i.) To restrain one's self |
Hold
(n. i.) To derive right or title |
Hold
(n.) The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms |
Hold
(n.) The authority or ground to take or keep |
Hold
(n.) Binding power and influence. |
Hold
(n.) Something that may be grasped |
Hold
(n.) A place of confinement |
Hold
(n.) A place of security |
Hold
(n.) A character [thus /] placed over or under a note or rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged |
Horizontal
(a.) Pertaining to, or near, the horizon. |
Horizontal
(a.) Parallel to the horizon |
Horizontal
(a.) Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon |
Plano-horizontal
(a.) Having a level horizontal surface or position. |
Self-control
(n.) Control of one's self |
capture
gaining control
seizure | the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property |
| fire control | preparation for the delivery of shellfire on a target |
chokehold
choke hold | a restraining hold, someone loops the arm around the neck of another person in a tight grip, usually from behind, he grabbed the woman in a chokehold, demanded her cash and jewelry, and then fled |
| inventory control | supervision of the supply and storage and accessibility of items in order to insure an adequate supply without excessive oversupply |
| control | the activity of managing or exerting control over something, the control of the mob by the police was admirable |
| crowd control | activity of controlling a crowd |
| damage control | an effort to minimize or curtail damage or loss |
| flight control | control from ground stations of airplanes in flight by means of messages transmitted to the pilot electronically |
| flood control | (engineering) the art or technique of trying to control rivers with dams etc in order to minimize the occurrence of floods |
| gun control | efforts to regulate or control sales of guns |
| internal control | an accounting procedure or system designed to promote efficiency or assure the implementation of a policy or safeguard assets or avoid fraud and error etc. |
| management control | an internal control performed by one or more managers |
| quality control | maintenance of standards of quality of manufactured goods |
| arms control | a limitation on the size and armament of the armed forces of a country |
| hold-down | a limitation or constraint, taxpayers want a hold-down on government spending |
riot control
riot control operation | the measures taken to control a riot |
grasping
taking hold
seizing
prehension | the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles) |
clasp
clench
clutch
clutches
grasp
grip
hold | the act of grasping, he released his clasp on my arm, he has a strong grip for an old man, she kept a firm hold on the railing |
| wrestling hold | a hold used in the sport of wrestling |
scissors
scissors hold
scissor hold
scissor grip
scissors grip | a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze |
| control | (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc, the timing and control of his movements were unimpaired, he had lost control of his sphincters |
| motor control | control of muscles |
birth control
birth prevention
family planning | limiting the number of children born |
rhythm method of birth control
rhythm method
rhythm
calendar method of birth control
calendar method | natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from daythrough day of her cycle) |
| traffic control | control of the flow of traffic in a building or a city |
| social control | control exerted (actively or passively) by group action |
| population control | control over the growth of population, a government program |
| occupation military control | the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power |
horizontal integration
horizontal combination | absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level |
airfoil
aerofoil
control surface
surface | a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air, can lift or control a plane in flight |
cargo area
cargo deck
cargo hold
hold storage area | the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo |
contraceptive
preventive preventative contraceptive device
prophylactic device
birth control device | an agent or device intended to prevent conception |
control
controller | a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine, the speed controller on his turntable was not working properly, I turned the controls over to her |
| control center | the operational center for a group of related activities, the general in command never left the control center |
control circuit
negative feedback circuit | a feedback circuit that subtracts from the input |
control key
command key | (computer science) the key on a computer keyboard that is used (in combination with some other key) to type control characters |
control panel
instrument panel
control board
board panel | electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices, he checked the instrument panel, suddenly the board lit up like a Christmas tree |
| control rod | a steel or aluminum rod that can be moved up or down to control the rate of the nuclear reaction |
| control room | a room housing control equipment (as in a recording studio) |
| control system | a system for controlling the operation of another system |
| control tower | a tower with an elevated workspace enclosed in glass for the visual observation of aircraft around an airport |
| cruise control | control mechanism for keeping an automobile at a set speed |
| fire control radar | naval radar that controls the delivery of fire on a military target |
| fire control system | naval weaponry consisting of a system for controlling the delivery of fire on a military target |
| grid control grid | an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube |
| ground control | a communication system for sending continuous radio messages to an airplane pilot who is making a groundontrolled approach to landing |
handle
grip handgrip
hold | the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it, he grabbed the hammer by the handle, it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip |
| hold keep | a cell in a jail or prison |
| hold | a stronghold |
horizontal bar
high bar | gymnastic apparatus consisting of a bar supported in a horizontal position by uprights at both ends |