What is the meaning of Hold?

To grasp or grip.

To contain or store.

To maintain or keep to a position or state.

  1. To have and keep possession of something.

    To have and keep possession of something.

    To reserve.

    To cause to wait or delay.

    To detain.

    To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).

    To keep oneself in a particular state.

    To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.

    To bear, carry, or manage.

    Not to move; to halt; to stop.

    Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.

    To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.

    To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.

    1. To maintain, to consider, to opine.
    2. To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.

      To maintain, to consider, to opine.

      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.

      To restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back.

      To win one's own service game.

      To take place, to occur.

      To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).

      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.

      To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.

      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.

      A position or grip used to control the opponent.

      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 wager amount, the total hold.

      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.

      The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).

      Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.

      to put something on hold; to cause delay

      to possess

      to reserve

      homage, tribute

      team

      class

      distance, side

      truth

      pain

      hold

      imperative of holde

      affectionate, devoted, loyal [with dative ‘to someone/something’]

      gracious, graceful, comely, dainty

      moon, natural satellite

      lunar

      unit of surface area, originally the same as acre, but currently usually indicating katasztrális hold, though its different types range from 3500 m² to 8400 m²

      flesh

      friendly, faithful

      carcass, flesh

      imperative of holde

      superficial flesh (including fat)

      dead body; carcass

      gracious, loyal, kind

      friendly

      friendly, loyal

      hold

      Source: wiktionary.org