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Definition of Hold

Hold The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed. To cause to remain in a given situation, position, or relation, within certain limits, or the like; to prevent from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep in the grasp; to retain. To retain in one's keeping; to maintain possession of, or authority over; not to give up or relinquish; to keep; to defend. To have; to possess; to be in possession of; to occupy; to derive title to; as, to hold office. To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain. To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain. To prosecute, have, take, or join in, as something which is the result of united action; as to, hold a meeting, a festival, a session, etc.; hence, to direct and bring about officially; to conduct or preside at; as, the general held a council of war; a judge holds a court; a clergyman holds a service. To receive and retain; to contain as a vessel; as, this pail holds milk; hence, to be able to receive and retain; to have capacity or containing power for. To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain. To consider; to regard; to esteem; to account; to think; to judge. To bear, carry, or manage; as he holds himself erect; he holds his head high. In general, to keep one's self in a given position or condition; to remain fixed. Hence: Not to more; to halt; to stop;-mostly in the imperative. Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued. Not to fail or be found wanting; to continue; to last; to endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist. Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant; to remain attached; to cleave;-often with with, to, or for. To restrain one's self; to refrain. To derive right or title; -- generally with of. The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay. The authority or ground to take or keep; claim. Binding power and influence. Something that may be grasped; means of support. A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard. A place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; -- often called a stronghold. A character [thus /] placed over or under a note or rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called also pause, and corona. Related Definitions: Abide, Able, About, Accept, Account, Act, Action, Adherent, Also, An, And, Argument, Arms, As, At, Attached, Authority, Away, Be, Bear, Become, Being, Below, Bind, Binding, Bring, Called, Capacity, Cargo, Carry, Castle, Cause, Certain, Character, Claim, Clasp, Cleave, Clergyman, Condition, Conduct, Confine, Confinement, Consider, Contain, Containing, Continue, Corona, Council, Course, Court, Custody, Deck, Defend, Derive, Desert, Direct, Endure, Erect, Escaping, Esteem, Fail, Fall, Falling, Festival, Firm, Fixed, For, Fort, Fortified, Found, From, General, Generally, Give, Given, Grasp, Gripe, Ground, Guard, Halt, Have, He, Head, Held, Hence, High, Himself, His, Hold, Holding, Imperative, Impose, In, Indicating, Influence, Interior, Is, It, Join, Judge, Keep, Keeping, Last, Lay, Legally, Like, Limit, Loose, Lower, Maintain, Manage, Manner, May, Meeting, Milk, Morally, More, Motion, Not, Note, Occupy, Of, Office, Officially, Often, On, One, Openly, Opinion, Or, Over, Pail, Part, Pause, Persist, Place, Placed, Portion, Position, Possess, Possession, Power, Preside, Prevent, Prison, Privately, Prolonged, Prosecute, Prove, Purpose, Receive, Recreant, Refrain, Regard, Relation, Relinquish, Remain, Rest, Restrain, Restraint, Result, Retain, Right, Security, Seizure, Self, Separated, Service, Session, Situation, Something, Stop, Stowed, Stronghold, Support, Sustain, Take, Test, That, The, Think, This, Thus, Title, To, Trial, Unbroken, Under, United, Up, Upon, Used, Vessel, Wanting, War, Way, Whether, Which, Whole, With, Within

Hold Quotations Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. Josh Billings Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. William Blake You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory. Janet Jackson Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. Henry Ward Beecher

Hold Translations hold in Afrikaans is vashou, hou, behou hold in Danish is bevare, lastrum, holde hold in French is stopper, tiens, tiennent, tenons, tenir hold in German is halten, halte hold in Latin is potior, habeo habui habitum hold in Norwegian is tak, grep, inneholde, holde hold in Spanish is continuar, sujetar, retenido, contener

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