Answer
Answer verb - To speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction.
Hold
Hold verb - To have or keep in one's hands.
Answer and hold are semantically related in affirmation topic. Sometimes you can use "Answer" instead a verb "Hold".
How words are described
| best | best answer | best hold |
| long | long answer | long hold |
| better | better answer | better hold |
| typical | typical answer | typical hold |
| Other adjectives: short, complex, original, true, proper, single, simple, powerful, actual, big, final, last. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The boy has to check with his neighbour who lives many miles away, so he places Bart on hold and spends half the day visiting his neighbor and going back to answer the question.
Source: Ridiculously Long Phone Hold - Sara Pezzini has used her Witchblade, a cosmic artifact of nigh limitless power to move furniture while moving, make toys for her daughter and to hold up her towel while she answer the phone.
Source: Mundane Utility / Comic Books - Dae-su asks the warden who paid him to hold him, and when the warden doesn't answer he duct tapes him to his chair.
Source: Mutilation Interrogation
Cite this Source
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