Hold and Splits

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Hold verb - To have or keep in one's hands.

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Splits is an antonym for hold.

Nearby Words: holding, holder, holdback

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Hold is an antonym for splits in divide into parts topic.

The tip of Goemon's sword falls off and then the screen splits in three pieces that slide apart, corresponding to the three pieces of Flinch's head that he tries and fails to hold together.

Source: Anime / The Mystery of Mamo
Funnily enough, Laambo is still alive enough to hold his two halves together and keep shouting insults, and appears ready to continue the fight... until his sword splits in half too, at which point he finally explodes.

Source: Half the Man He Used to Be
From this, he splits down animation principles into five different things; Constant (or "Even") Motion, Accelerating Motion, Decelerating Motion, Zero Motion (which an animator would usually call a still "Hold" of a drawing) and Irregular Motion Change.

Source: Creator / Norman Mclaren

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