hold

1. A grasp or grip.

   Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.

2. An act or instance of holding.

   Can I have a hold of the baby?

3. A place where animals are held for safety
4. 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.

5. Something reserved or kept.

   We have a hold here for you.

6. Power over someone or something.
7. The ability to persist.
8. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
9. A position or grip used to control the opponent.

   He got him in a tight hold and pinned him to the mat.

10. (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
11. 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.

12. The wager amount, the total hold.

    As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015

13. An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
14. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
15. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
16. A pause facility.
17. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
18. 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.
19. A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.

1. To grasp or grip.

   Hold the pencil like this.

2. To contain or store.

   This package holds six bottles.

3. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
4. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
5. To win one's own service game.
6. To take place, to occur.
7. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).

   Elections will be held on the first Sunday of next month.

8. To derive right or title.
9. 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.

10. To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.

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

   Put that in the hold.

adjective

Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.