hold
IPA: hˈoʊɫd
noun
- A grasp or grip.
- An act or instance of holding.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- Something reserved or kept.
- Power over someone or something.
- The ability to persist.
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
- (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- (video games, dated) A pause facility.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- (aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
- (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
verb
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- (transitive) To contain or store.
- (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
- (transitive) To have and keep possession of something.
- (transitive) To reserve.
- (transitive) To cause to wait or delay.
- (transitive) To detain.
- (intransitive, copulative) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- (intransitive, copulative) To keep oneself in a particular state.
- (transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
- (transitive) To bear, carry, or manage.
- (intransitive, chiefly imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
- (transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- (transitive) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- (archaic) To restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back.
- (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
- To take place, to occur.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- (archaic) To derive right or title.
- (imperative) In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- (slang, intransitive) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
adjective
- (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
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Examples of "hold" in Sentences
- A secret languor was taking hold of my body.
- The purchaser who holds the receipt owns the merchandise.
- The purchaser, who holds the receipt, owns the merchandise.
- He is able to hold his own in conversation with the wily Smaug.
- Infection then takes hold of the site and becomes a chronic abscess.
- That is where the wonder of realization begins to take hold of the listener.
- The land is owned by Peel Holdings and the proposal is in its embryonic stage.
- Pox is a brilliant tactician, a canny businessman, and holds his own in chess.
- Because of this an altruistic behavior can take hold by the following reasoning.
- Because of this, an altruistic behavior can take hold by the following reasoning.
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