() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contr. from holdeth.
(n.) A piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill.
(n.) A deep hole in a river where there is protection for fish; also, a cover, a hole, or hiding place.
Example Sentences:
(1) Electrocardiographic criteria employed to diagnose LV hypertrophy included the Sokolow and Lyon index, the Romhilt-Estes voltage criteria, the Romhilt-Estes point score, the ratio of RV6:RV5 greater than 1 proposed by Holt and Spodick, and a method utilizing the sum of the amplitudes of the QRS complexes of all 12 leads.
(2) He was perhaps casting an envious glance at his counterpart Dave Whelan's summer signings, particularly Holt, who nodded over early on from six yards.
(3) Using a Farmer chamber as a reference dosimeter, we have measured the Ngas (cavity-gas calibration factor) and Prepl (replacement correction factor) values for four parallel-plate chambers: a Holt chamber, a Capintec chamber, a Markus chamber, and an SHM chamber.
(4) Both the Holt and Luthy methods give equally reliable results, but the Holt technique is preferable for Qed measurements.
(5) The Holt-Oram syndrome is a hereditary disease which associated with upper limbs anomalies and cardiac defects such as secundum type atrial septal defect.
(6) Dennis Holt, the bank’s chairman, said it had now cut costs and sold troubled loans to begin to seek a buyer for the Manchester-based operation with 4 million customers and 105 branches.
(7) The RMT union, which received the document in a briefing with Holt, urged the government to nationalise East Coast permanently.
(8) A method for measuring the true coronary blood flow without catheterization of the coronary arteries and coronary sinus as well as a modified Holt's method for determining the end diastolic volume of the heart ventricles are suggested.
(9) The basement membrane changes are compatible with those seen in Meesmann, Stocker-Holt, and map-dot-fingerprint dystrophy, but the lack of intraepithelial cysts is not characteristic of these dystrophies.
(10) The fractions obtained from the 19A PSs Lab-A-PIM and CDC-PIM exhibited four sugar components, as observed for the PS Lab-A-1, while the separated fractions from the 19A PSs Lab-A-Holt and CDC-Holt displayed two sugar components, a pattern similar to that of PS Lab-A-2.
(11) The Rorschach (Holt's scoring system) and Alternate Uses Test (spontaneous flexibility score) were administered to 53 fifth-grade children.
(12) Phil Holt, local government advisory partner at Deloitte, the professional services firm, said most authorities had already made a range of efficiencies and cuts, but still faced "some of the greatest challenges in living memory".
(13) Jean Beausejour was then introduced to provide service yet Holt, Fortuné and Boyce could not find the target with headers from his centres.
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(15) Dennis Holt, the bank’s chairman, said: “Following the appointment of Liam Coleman as deputy chief executive on 3 May 2016, I am pleased to confirm that Liam will succeed Niall Booker as chief executive, subject to regulatory approval, when Niall’s contract with the bank expires on 31 December 2016 following a planned handover during the fourth quarter of 2016.” The number of current accounts held at the bank fell to 1.422m at the end of June, from 1.43m a year earlier.
(16) These patients, as well as the twins described in this report, are most likely a heterogeneous group and may represent other syndromes like Holt-Oram, VATER, VACTERL and IVIC, with genetic as well as nongenetic etiologies.
(17) Assistant chief constable Andy Holt, who is leading a team of 10 British officers deployed to Port Elizabeth, doesn't sound too concerned.
(18) Three serial ejection fractions (EFs) (EF1, 2, 3) and the mean were calculated, based on Holt's theory.
(19) This week, after an article in the Mail on Sunday detailed the prejudices he had expressed, Fury made what he calls flippant threats in a video interview against the journalist, Oliver Holt.
(20) We studied three families in which patients with the Holt-Oram syndrome (HOS) had various skeletal abnormalities and congenital heart defects.
Holy
Definition:
(superl.) Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed; sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels; a holy priesthood.
(superl.) Spiritually whole or sound; of unimpaired innocence and virtue; free from sinful affections; pure in heart; godly; pious; irreproachable; guiltless; acceptable to God.
Example Sentences:
(1) The next day on his blog he called the job "the Holy Grail of animation gigs".
(2) The Kalachakra Puja takes place in the eastern state of Bihar at the holy Bodhgaya site, where the Buddha gained enlightenment.
(3) Most of these troops are being sent to Helmand and neighbouring Kandahar where a big push against the Taliban is expected in September, after the holy month of Ramadan.
(4) There's apparently a 30-seat cinema in Paris that's played The Holy Grail for three decades.
(5) Islamist militants have attacked Iraq's largest oil refinery in the city of Baiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, as Iran raised the prospect of direct military intervention to protect Shia holy sites.
(6) The Holy Father has now decided that my resignation will take effect today, 25 February 2013, and that he will appoint an apostolic administrator to govern the archdiocese in my place until my successor as archbishop is appointed.
(7) Speaking in 2001 at the launch of Death in Holy Orders , her 11th Dalgliesh novel, James explained that her success was founded on the belief that plot could never make up for poor writing and that authors should always focus on the reader.
(8) The staggering figure – one of the worst bombings in 13 years of war in Iraq – has cast a pall on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan and which begins on Wednesday in Iraq .
(9) And not just the Muslim holy sites, he adds; Palestinians are more visible in the west of the city than previously.
(10) Boys from King Edward VI grammar school will lay oblations inside Holy Trinity church, while the Coventry Corps of Drums prepares to lead a "people's parade" towards Bancroft Gardens, where the River Avon widens, and where – if you're lucky – you might see a swan or two cruise by.
(11) O’Brien’s successor as archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, Leo Cushley, said: “I am confident that the decision of the Holy Father is fair, equitable and proportionate.
(12) Has Net-a-Porter found the holy grail of 21st-century fashion?
(13) Hitler chose to stage Nazi party rallies in the city due to its connections to the Holy Roman Empire and the Nuremberg laws, which stripped Jews of their German citizenship, were passed here.
(14) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(15) Quite a number of people brought up in the emotional straitjackets of the English upper classes found blessed relief in the permission the Holy Spirit gave them to weep or laugh and gibber and faint in public.
(16) In the mid-1990s, when the movement's influence on HTB was at its height, I visited a Chelsea church run by Nicky Lee, one of the men who converted Welby at Cambridge, and when the Holy Spirit started knocking people down, I'd hear the distinct rattle of pearls when the young women fainted to the floor.
(17) The narrative drivers are pretty slack – improbable dialogue ("I'm a very wealthy man, Miss Steele, and I have expensive and absorbing hobbies"); lame characterisation; irritating tics (a constant war between Steele's "subconscious", which is always fainting or putting on half-moon glasses, and her "inner goddess", who is forever pouting and stamping); and an internal monologue that goes like this … "Holy hell, he's hot!
(18) The fear that Israel was planning to alter the status of the holy place Arabs call Al-Haram Al-Sharif and the Jews the Temple Mount set off the violence.
(19) Recipes for " tomato burgers " (bestowing this fruit sandwich with the holy title of "burger" is an affront to cows everywhere), help on undergoing a " friendship divorce ", extortionate travel guides … Goop covers a lot of ground.
(20) The IAEA team is likely to visit an underground enrichment site near the holy city of Qom, 80 miles south of Tehran, which is carved into a mountain as protection from possible airstrikes.