hold meaning
EN
[həʊld] [hɔʊld] [hoʊld] [-əʊld] 
US WHold
- Hold may refer to:
- Hold (aviation), a place for an aircraft to loop around near its destination
- Baggage hold, cargo space on an airplane
- Climbing hold, on climbing walls
- Hold (banking/commerce), a now common practice by bankers and retailers (esp. gas stations)
- Hold (baseball), a statistic that may be awarded to a relief pitcher
- The cards that are kept in a hand of poker, not those discarded and replaced
- Handhold (dance)
- Grappling hold, a specific grip applied to an opponent in wrestling or martial arts
- Legal hold, a legal ruling or official declaration
- NounPLholdsPREhol-SUF-old
- A grasp or grip.
- Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.
- Something reserved or kept.
- We have a hold here for you.
- Power over someone or something.
- The Judge accepts the payment, the law no longer has a hold on you, and therefore you are free to walk out of the court a free man or woman.
- The ability to persist.
- Despite their seemingly strong hold on life, as indicated by the persistence of movement in decapitation tests, rattlers are relatively frail creatures and are easily killed.
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- He got him in a tight hold and pinned him to the mat.
- (gambling) 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.
- (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- (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.
- (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).
- Put that in the hold.
- A grasp or grip.
- VerbSGholdsPRholdingPTheldPPheldPPholden
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- Hold the pencil like this.
- (transitive) To contain or store.
- This package holds six bottles.
- (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
- Hold my coat for me. The general ordered the colonel to hold his position at all costs.
- Hold a table for us at 7:00.
- Hold the elevator.
- Hold the suspect in this cell.
- to hold true; The proposition holds.
- to hold firm; to hold opinions
- We cannot hold mortality's strong hand.
- He holds himself proudly erect. Hold your head high.
- And damned be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!"
- Our force by land hath nobly held.
- to hold one's bladder; to hold one's breath
- (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
- He was held responsible for the actions of those under his command. I'll hold him to that promise.
- Hold not thy peace, and be not still.
- Stand fast and hold the traditions which ye have been taught.
- His dauntless heart would fain have held / From weeping, but his eyes rebelled.
- (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- Elections will be held on the first Sunday of next month.
- (archaic) To derive right or title.
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- AdjectiveCOMmore holdSUPmost hold
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The rehearsal dinner was held at a fancy restaurant.
- While settlement in New South Wales was initially confined, many moved outside the boundaries to become squatters, eventually consolidating their originally illegal hold on the land.
- I made a mistake. That's not a good reason to hold a grudge against me.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Hold on, I need to steal a phone from the office. I'll be back real quick.
- Holding hands and forming a human daisy chain of peace, love and understanding is about as high on the list of priorities of today's fest-goer as remembering to pack a cummerbund.
- Hold off the decision one more day so I can answer your question.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The child's constant wrigglings made her difficult to hold.
- The protesters kept vigil outside the conference centre in which the party congress was being held.
- Frozen at the age he was when vampiredom was thrust upon him (in the great influenza epidemic of 1918), Edward is now eternally a younger man, while Jake’s 16 and holding.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of hold in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Verbs by inflection type
- Irregular verbs
- Irregular verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Adjectives
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "hold" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb, a transitive verb and a verbs by inflection type.