clear vs hold

clear

verb
  • To approve or authorise for a particular purpose or action; to give clearance to. 

  • To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from. 

  • To style (an element within a document) so that it is not permitted to float at a given position. 

  • To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime. 

  • To pass without interference; to miss. 

  • To finish or complete (a stage, challenge, or game). 

  • To leave abruptly; to clear off or clear out. 

  • To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free. 

  • To exceed a stated mark. 

  • To obtain approval or authorisation in respect of. 

  • To hit, kick, head, punch etc. (a ball, puck) away in order to defend one's goal. 

  • To remove (items or material) so as to leave something unobstructed or open. 

  • To obtain a clearance. 

  • To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from (a matter); to clarify or resolve; to clear up. 

  • To earn a profit of; to net. 

  • To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track. 

  • To become free from obstruction or obscurement; to become transparent. 

  • To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero. 

  • Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred. 

adv
  • Not near something or touching it. 

  • All the way; entirely. 

  • Free (or separate) from others. 

  • In a clear manner; plainly. 

noun
  • A person who is free from the influence of engrams. 

  • The completion of a stage or challenge, or of the whole game. 

  • Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls. 

adj
  • Free of obstacles. 

  • Good, the best. 

  • Free of ambiguity or doubt; easily understood. 

  • Without clouds. 

  • Without defects or blemishes, such as freckles or knots. 

  • Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds. 

  • Distinct, sharp, well-marked. 

  • Transparent in colour. 

  • Possessing little or no perceptible stimulus. 

  • Unmixed; entirely pure. 

  • Without diminution; in full; net. 

  • Showing a green aspect, allowing a train to proceed past it. 

  • Better than, superior to. 

  • Easily or distinctly heard; audible. 

  • Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating. 

  • Free from the influence of engrams; see Clear (Scientology). 

  • Without a thickening ingredient. 

  • Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful. 

  • Free of guilt, or suspicion. 

  • Bright; luminous; not dark or obscured. 

hold

verb
  • To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions. 

  • To detain. 

  • To take place, to occur. 

  • In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted. 

  • To have and keep possession of something. 

  • Not to move; to halt; to stop. 

  • To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person). 

  • To contain or store. 

  • To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale. 

  • To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice). 

  • To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain. 

  • To win one's own service game. 

  • To cause to wait or delay. 

  • To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain. 

  • To maintain, to consider, to opine. 

  • To grasp or grip. 

  • To reserve. 

  • To bear, carry, or manage. 

  • To keep oneself in a particular state. 

  • To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function. 

  • Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued. 

  • To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain. 

noun
  • The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair. 

  • The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet. 

  • Power over someone or something. 

  • A place where animals are held for safety 

  • An act or instance of holding. 

  • Keep a firm hold on the handlebars. 

  • A position or grip used to control the opponent. 

  • The wager amount, the total hold. 

  • A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin. 

  • The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold). 

  • The ability to persist. 

  • An exercise involving holding a position for a set time 

  • An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with. 

  • Something reserved or kept. 

  • A grasp or grip. 

  • The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold. 

  • As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015 

  • The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume. 

  • The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy. 

  • A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team. 

  • An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken. 

  • A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern. 

How often have the words clear and hold occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )