Anchor-hold
(n.) The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds. |
Anchor-hold
(n.) Hence: Firm hold: security. |
Break-circuit
(n.) A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit. |
Circuit
(n.) The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit |
Circuit
(n.) The circumference of, or distance round, any space |
Circuit
(n.) That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown. |
Circuit
(n.) The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits. |
Circuit
(n.) A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher. |
Circuit
(n.) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice. |
Circuit
(n.) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors. |
Circuit
(n.) Circumlocution. |
Circuit
(v. i.) To move in a circle |
Circuit
(v. t.) To travel around. |
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 |
Sample
(n.) Example |
Sample
(n.) A part of anything presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole |
Sample
(v. t.) To make or show something similar to |
Sample
(v. t.) To take or to test a sample or samples of |
Short circuit
() A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. |
Short-circuit
(v. t.) To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance. |
lap circle
circuit | movement once around a course, he drove an extra lap just for insurance |
tour
circuit | a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area, they took an extended tour of Europe, we took a quick circuit of the park, a ten-day coach circuit of the island |
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 |
| hold-down | a limitation or constraint, taxpayers want a hold-down on government spending |
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 |
AND circuit
AND gate | a circuit in a computer that fires only when all of its inputs fire |
| bridge bridge circuit | a circuit consisting of two branches ( arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected |
cargo area
cargo deck
cargo hold
hold storage area | the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo |
circuit
electrical circuit
electric circuit | an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow |
circuit board
circuit card
board card plug-in
add-in | a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities |
circuit breaker
breaker | a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded |
closed circuit
loop | a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates |
| computer circuit | a circuit that is part of a computer |
control circuit
negative feedback circuit | a feedback circuit that subtracts from the input |
feedback circuit
feedback loop | a circuit that feeds back some of the output to the input of a system |
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 |
integrated circuit
microcircuit | a microelectronic computer circuit incorporated into a chip or semiconductor, a whole system rather than a single component |
light circuit
lighting circuit | wiring that provides power to electric lights |
NAND circuit
NAND gate | a logic gate that produces an output that is the inverse of the output of an AND gate |
| open circuit | an incomplete electrical circuit in which no current flows |
OR circuit
OR gate | a gate circuit in a computer that fires when any of its inputs fire |
parallel circuit
shunt circuit | a closed circuit in which the current divides into two or more paths before recombining to complete the circuit |
| printed circuit | computer circuit consisting of an electronic sub-assembly, copper conductors are laminated on an insulating board or card and circuit components are inserted into holes and dip soldered |
| pulse timing circuit | a circuit that times pulses |
racing circuit
circuit | a racetrack for automobile races |
| resonator resonant circuit | an electrical circuit that combines capacitance and inductance in such a way that a periodic electric oscillation will reach maximum amplitude |
| series circuit | a circuit having its parts connected serially |
short circuit
short | accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference |
squelch circuit
squelch
squelcher | an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise |
| tank circuit | an oscillatory circuit |
telephone line
phone line
telephone circuit
subscriber line
line | a telephone connection |
X-OR circuit
XOR circuit
XOR gate | gate for exclusive OR, a circuit in a computer that fires only if only one of its inputs fire |
| hold | power by which something or someone is affected or dominated, he has a hold over them |
appreciation
grasp
hold | understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something, he has a good grasp of accounting practices |
| sample | a small part of something intended as representative of the whole |
| grab sample | a single sample or measurement taken at a specific time or over as short a period as feasible |
| random sample | a sample grabbed at random |
sample distribution
sample sampling | items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population |
| random sample | a sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected |
stratified sample
representative sample
proportional sample | the population is divided into strata and a random sample is taken from each stratum |
| circuit court of appeals | one of the twelve federal United States courts of appeals that cover a group of states known as a `circuit' |
| circuit | (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (soalled because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations), one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals |
circumference
circuit | the boundary line encompassing an area or object, he had walked the full circumference of his land, a danger to all races over the whole circumference of the globe |
| circuit | an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to, she's a familiar name on the club circuit, on the lecture circuit, the judge makes a circuit of the courts in his district, the international tennis circuit |
borscht circuit
borsht circuit
borscht belt
borsht belt | (informal) a resort area in the Catskill Mountains of New York that was patronized primarily by Jewish guests, many comedians learned their trade playing the borscht circuit |