Word Finder - hold

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A grasp or grip.

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Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.

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An act or instance of holding.

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Can I have a hold of the baby?

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A place where animals are held for safety

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An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.

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Senator X placed a hold on the bill, then went to the library and placed a hold on a book.

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Something reserved or kept.

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We have a hold here for you.

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Power over someone or something.

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The ability to persist.

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The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.

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A position or grip used to control the opponent.

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

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

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

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The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.

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The wager amount, the total hold.

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

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

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

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

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A pause facility.

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

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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.

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

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To grasp or grip.

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Hold the pencil like this.

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To contain or store.

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This package holds six bottles.

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(heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.

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(heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.

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To win one's own service game.

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To take place, to occur.

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

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

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To derive right or title.

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In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.

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A martini, please, and hold the olive.

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To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.

Can you hold things down for two weeks?

Can you hold lunch for a little bit?

I can't hold this!

Our job is to hold this group together, for the children.

There, that should hold you.

He could not hold out much longer.

Hold on a sec.

The thin pipes didn't look strong enough to hold him.

I see only the parts of them that hold depravity, weakness.

I don't hold our past against you at all.

I said hold on to me.

But English seems to have taken hold, thanks to the Internet.

She struggled, but he wrapped his arms around her in a hold she couldn't break.

Don't hold up dinner on my account.

Was she merely a female to hold for the evening - or was this what he had been trying to tell her for so long?

The magic took hold of her, and she danced away from his strikes as if they were in slow motion.

You cannot sell to someone the right to kill you or hold you prisoner.

Much that I hold sweetest, much that I hold most precious, I owe to her.

Those three got hold of a bear somewhere, put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses!

And in their name and my own I hold out a brotherly hand to you.

I attracted her attention by showing her my watch and letting her hold it in her hand.

They can't hold all that line.

He seized the door, making a final effort to hold it back--to lock it was no longer possible--but his efforts were weak and clumsy and the door, pushed from behind by that terror, opened and closed again.

If I am unsuccessful there are others who may hold the answers I demand and I now have plans to get them as well.

No; hold off on that.

She wrenched free of his hold and pushed him hard enough to slide out from between him and the wall.

Hold the rope in both hands.

May I hold you?

Autocrats can hold power indefinitely if they control the media, the military, business, the money, and information.

I let her hold a shell in her hand, and feel the chicken "chip, chip."

With a frown, she wondered why she'd never seen it before, why she wasted seven years trying to make things work with someone who couldn't hold a candle to the man she was meant to be with.

Panting and exhausted, Deidre couldn't have moved, had he not shifted to hold her against him.

It was amusing to see her hold it before her eyes and spell the sentences out on her fingers, just as I had done.

Having once got hold they never let go, but struggled and wrestled and rolled on the chips incessantly.

This people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico, though it cost them their existence as a people.

Go and take something, my poor Anna Mikhaylovna, or you will not hold out.

But Anna Mikhaylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the portfolio, and changed her grip.

He stretched out his hand to take hold of the purse.

Hold your tongue, Petya, what a goose you are!

Tell Denisov, 'at the first shot at daybreak,' said Dolokhov and was about to ride away, but Petya seized hold of him.

This Bryce guy was probably the one who got a hold of the contest letter from Julie and broke into her apartment.

There were twenty of them, far more than the small house could hold.

As I learned, my deals hold the same power of enforcement as his.

He would hold his duty over his fascination with the immortal world.

I hold men to blame.

You put your life on hold.

The Code recognizes complete private ownership in land, but apparently extends the right to hold land to votaries, merchants (and resident aliens?).

When the World War broke out his attitude was favourable to the absolute neutrality of Italy, believing that his country's interests lay in not siding with either group of belligerents, and on the eve of Italian intervention he made an attempt, by using his personal hold over the Parliamentary majority, to upset the Salandra Cabinet, but it was frustrated by an uprising of public opinion in favour of war.

We went out to the pump-house, and I made Helen hold her mug under the spout while I pumped.

The keeper of the bears made one big black fellow stand on his hind legs and hold out his great paw to us, which Helen shook politely.