{
  "id": "held.grip",
  "term": "held",
  "sense": "grip",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "held",
  "domain": "physical",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to be in contact with a thing and stay in that contact",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "touch.together",
      "persist.continue",
      "contact.physical"
    ],
    "interaction": "the physical contact between things is maintained over time, creating a sustained connection",
    "novel_properties": [
      "sustained physical contact",
      "resist separation",
      "continuous contact state"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Moon remains held by Earth's gravity in a stable orbit, completing one revolution every 27.3 days.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Fukushima Daiichi reactors lost the ability to hold cooling water after the 2011 tsunami disabled backup power.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A chameleon's tongue tip adheres to insects with mucus and rapid contact, holding prey during retraction.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "action.deed",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "balance.state",
    "blind.unobserved",
    "equilibrium.state",
    "integrity.state",
    "legacy.enduring",
    "reputation.social-model",
    "status.social"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "held"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing 'contact.physical' as constitutive; it is essential to grounding the 'held' relation in tangible interaction."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-held.grip"
}