hold
/həʊld/
Dictionary
noun
- A grasp or grip.
"Keep a firm hold on the handlebars."
- An act or instance of holding.
"Can I have a hold of the baby?"
- 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.
"Senator X placed a hold on the bill, then went to the library and placed a hold on a book."
- Something reserved or kept.
"We have a hold here for you."
- Power over someone or something.
- The ability to persist.
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
"He got him in a tight hold and pinned him to the mat."
- (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
"The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume."
- The wager amount, the total hold.
"As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015"
- 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.
- A pause facility.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- 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.
- A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
verb
- To grasp or grip.
"Hold the pencil like this."
- To contain or store.
"This package holds six bottles."
- (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
- (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
- To win one's own service game.
- To take place, to occur.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
"Elections will be held on the first Sunday of next month."
- To derive right or title.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
"A martini, please, and hold the olive."
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
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