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hold over
Overview of noun hold-over
The noun holdover has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. holdover, hangover -- (an official who remains in office after his term)
2. hangover, holdover -- (something that has survived from the past; "a holdover from the sixties"; "hangovers from the 19th century")
Overview of verb hold-over
The verb hold over has 5 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (2) hold over -- (intimidate somebody (with a threat); "She was holding it over him")
2. (1) carry over, hold over -- (hold over goods to be sold for the next season)
3. hold over -- (keep in a position or state from an earlier period of time)
4. hold over -- (continue a term of office past the normal period of time)
5. postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off -- (hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hold-over
2 senses of holdover
Sense 1
holdover, hangover
=> official, functionary
=> skilled worker, trained worker, skilled workman
=> worker
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
hangover, holdover
=> survival
=> continuance, continuation
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun hold-over
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hold-over
2 senses of holdover
Sense 1
holdover, hangover
=> official, functionary
Sense 2
hangover, holdover
=> survival
Antonyms of noun hold-over
Member Holonyms of noun hold-over
Substance Holonyms of noun hold-over
Part Holonyms of noun hold-over
Member Meronyms of noun hold-over
Substance Meronyms of noun hold-over
Part Meronyms of noun hold-over
Meronyms of noun hold-over
Holonyms of noun hold-over
Attributes of noun hold-over
Derived Forms of noun hold-over
2 senses of holdover
Sense 1
holdover, hangover
RELATED TO>(verb) hold over#4
=> hold over
Sense 2
hangover, holdover
RELATED TO>(verb) hold over#3
=> hold over
Domain of noun hold-over
Domain Terms of noun hold-over
Familiarity of noun hold-over
holdover used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun hold-over
2 senses of holdover
Sense 1
holdover, hangover
> official, functionary
=> appointee
=> bailiff
=> beadle
=> bureaucrat, administrative official
=> caretaker
=> censor
=> census taker, enumerator
=> church officer
=> city father
=> civil servant
=> commissar, political commissar
=> Comptroller General
=> Comptroller of the Currency
=> diplomat, diplomatist
=> elected official
=> equerry
=> fire marshall
=> fire warden, forest fire fighter, ranger
=> hearing examiner, hearing officer
=> holdover, hangover
=> incumbent, officeholder
=> Inquisitor
=> invalidator, voider, nullifier
=> judge, justice, jurist, magistrate
=> licenser
=> macebearer, mace, macer
=> mandarin
=> notary, notary public
=> noticer
=> officeholder, officer
=> agent, federal agent
=> provincial
=> postmaster general
=> proconsul
=> prosecutor, public prosecutor, prosecuting officer, prosecuting attorney
=> quaestor
=> recruiter
=> registrar, record-keeper, recorder
=> regulator
=> returning officer
=> sealer
=> searcher
=> teller, vote counter
=> town clerk
=> usher, doorkeeper
=> vizier
=> weigher
Sense 2
hangover, holdover
> survival
=> custom, usage, usance
=> hangover, holdover
Meronyms of noun hold-over
2 senses of holdover
Sense 1
holdover, hangover
=> official, functionary
=> skilled worker, trained worker, skilled workman
=> worker
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Holonyms of noun hold-over
Antonyms of verb hold-over
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb hold-over
5 senses of hold over
Sense 1
hold over
=> intimidate
=> frighten, fright, scare, affright
=> stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
=> arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
=> make, create
Sense 2
carry over, hold over
=> keep, hold on
=> have, have got, hold
Sense 3
hold over
=> keep, maintain, hold
Sense 4
hold over
=> stay, stay on, continue, remain
=> be
Sense 5
postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off
=> delay
=> wait, hold off, hold back
=> act, move
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb hold-over
1 of 5 senses of hold over
Sense 5
postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off
=> call
=> hold
=> suspend
=> probate
=> reprieve, respite
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb hold-over
5 senses of hold over
Sense 1
hold over
=> intimidate
Sense 2
carry over, hold over
=> keep, hold on
Sense 3
hold over
=> keep, maintain, hold
Sense 4
hold over
=> stay, stay on, continue, remain
Sense 5
postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off
=> delay
'Cause To' of verb hold-over
Derived Forms of verb hold-over
2 of 5 senses of hold over
Sense 3
hold over
RELATED TO>(noun) holdover#2
=> hangover, holdover
Sense 4
hold over
RELATED TO>(noun) holdover#1
=> holdover, hangover
Domain of verb hold-over
Domain Terms of verb hold-over
Familiarity of verb hold-over
hold over used as a verb is common (polysemy count =5)
Sample Sentences of verb hold-over
5 senses of hold over
Sense 1
hold over
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
carry over, hold over
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
hold over
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
hold over
*> Somebody ----s
Sense 5
postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s something PP
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb hold-over
5 senses of hold over
Sense 1
hold over
> intimidate
=> hold over
=> strong-arm, bully, browbeat, bullyrag, ballyrag, boss around, hector, push around
Sense 2
carry over, hold over
> keep, hold on
=> carry over, hold over
=> deny, refuse
=> withhold, deduct, recoup
=> save, preserve
=> store, hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away
=> store
=> retain, hold, keep back, hold back
=> harbor, harbour
Sense 3
hold over
> keep, maintain, hold
=> pressurize, pressurise
=> continue, uphold, carry on, bear on, preserve
=> hold over
=> conserve
=> preserve
=> distance
=> housekeep
Sense 4
hold over
> stay, stay on, continue, remain
=> bide, abide, stay
=> hold over
Sense 5
postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off
> delay
=> hesitate, pause
=> procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally
=> procrastinate
=> postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb hold-over
Sense 1
hold over
=> intimidate
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Sense 2
carry over, hold over
=> keep, hold on
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Sense 3
hold over
=> keep, maintain, hold
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Sense 4
hold over
=> stay, stay on, continue, remain
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Sense 5
postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off
=> delay
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