See hold true on Wiktionary
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{ "forms": [ { "form": "holds true", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "holding true", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "held true", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "held true", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "hold<,,held> true" }, "expansion": "hold true (third-person singular simple present holds true, present participle holding true, simple past and past participle held true)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "related": [ { "word": "hold water" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English intransitive verbs", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English terms with quotations", "English verbs", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned", "Terms with Dutch translations", "Terms with Finnish translations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:", "text": "However the case may be with societies under widely different conditions of development, the law of mass and individuality holds true of the social facts known to us.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To be or remain true, valid or applicable; to apply." ], "links": [ [ "be", "be" ], [ "remain", "remain" ], [ "true", "true" ], [ "valid", "valid" ], [ "applicable", "applicable" ], [ "apply", "apply" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(intransitive) To be or remain true, valid or applicable; to apply." ], "tags": [ "intransitive" ] } ], "translations": [ { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "to be true or valid", "word": "gelden" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to be true or valid", "word": "pitää paikkansa" } ], "word": "hold true" }
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