In academic writing, it is common to refer to or prove properties about the main object of an article.
If I prove a property for (some object), I know I can use the phrase:
Property X holds for the object Y.
But, can an object hold a property?
Furthermore, object Y holds some additional properties.
It always sounded “natural” to me (I’m not a native speaker), but now that I’m trying to verify my sentence construction using Google, I just can’t seem to find anything useful.
Answer
Property X holds for the object Y.
This uses hold in the sense “to be valid or true”. We can also use “holds true for”.
Furthermore, object Y holds some additional properties.
This is using hold in the sense “to have, to possess”. So it’s valid, but that the same word is used for each is a coincidence.
The latter is a rare use though. I would favour has or maybe exhibits, over holds as more usual.
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Source : Link , Question Author : penelope , Answer Author : Jon Hanna
