English Dictionary

hold

/həʊld/

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.

He tightened his hold on the rope.

意味（1）

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.

意味（2）

An act or instance of holding.

Can I have a hold of the baby?

意味（3）

A place where animals are held for safety

意味（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.

意味（5）

Something reserved or kept.

We have a hold here for you.

意味（6）

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.

意味（7）

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.

意味（8）

The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.

Sculpturing gels provide stiffer hold than styling gels, which provide better hold than mousses.

意味（9）

(wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.

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

意味（10）

(exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time

意味（11）

(gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.

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意味（12）

(gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.

2012, Sarah Fortnum, “Melbourne Cup 2012 From The Bookie’s Perspective”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), retrieved 2013-12-18:

意味（13）

(tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.

意味（14）

The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.

So I felt my way down the passage back to the vault, and recked not of the darkness, nor of Blackbeard and his crew, if only I could lay my lips to liquor. Thus I groped about the barrels till near the top of the stack my hand struck on the spile of a keg, and drawing it, I got my mouth to the hold.

意味（15）

A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.

意味（16）

(video games, dated) A pause facility.

A hold facility is available; H holds, and S restarts.

意味（17）

The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.

Given that there is an average on-hold time of more than five minutes while enquiries are being dealt with, the telephone hold system provided the best opportunity.

意味（18）

(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.

意味（19）

(aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.