英和和英

動詞

hold down (third-person singular simple present holds down, present participle holding down, simple past and past participle held down)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To restrain; to check.

   Please hold the noise down.

   You hold him down while I search him.

2. (idiomatic, transitive) To continue, to hold and to manage well; to keep, maintain; support.

   I held down that job for years.

   Thank you to everyone who's been holding us down while we've been going through this difficult time.

関連する語

• hold it down

語源

Deverbal from hold down.

名詞

holddown (plural holddowns)

1. That which holds something down.
2. (engineering) A clamping device that holds another structural element in place.

   Coordinate terms: holdback, tiedown

3. (computing) A period during which a network router ignores messages about a currently unreachable route, giving it time to become reachable again.

参照

• “holddown”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.