Holding Time

Holding time may refer to:

  • Holding (aviation), used to delay aircraft already in flight
  • Holding time (attachment therapy), where a child is laid upon to produce a cathartic response
  • Call duration

Famous quotes containing the words holding and/or time:

    “I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fastened to a shed near the lighthouse a long new sign with the words “ANGLO SAXON” on it in large gilt letters, as if it were a useless part which the ship could afford to lose, or which the sailors had discharged at the same time with the pilot. But it interested somewhat as if it had been a part of the Argo, clipped off in passing through the Symplegades.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)