Word Finder - holds

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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.

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

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Put that in the hold.

Besides, this place holds terrible memories for me.

This system still holds good.

You have no idea what kind of magic it holds.

He shall ride to the place where he holds court, greeting the people on both sides.

Unfortunately (perhaps) Butler prefers to argue on admitted principles; holds much of his own moral belief in reserve; tries to reduce everything to a question of probable fact.

Your deal holds the power of the Dark One to enforce the debt, since you are his.

The PMF will be the only thing that holds this country together.

And that she holds the keys to the world's survival in her hands, Brady added silently.

He who holds the gem will control the Vamp.

His first college at Oxford, in perishing, gave birth to St John's College, which now holds its site.

The Supreme Court of Appeals, consisting of five judges, elected for terms of twelve years, holds three terms annually, one at Wheeling, one at Charleston and one at Charles Town.

The third player, who does any measuring that may be necessary to determine which bowl or bowls may be nearest the jack, holds almost as responsible a position as the captain, whose place, in fact, he takes whenever the skip is temporarily absent.

He holds that such philosophy is too shallow for theology.

Under the names of Yenking, which it received from the Khitan, and of Chung-tu, which it had from the Kin, it holds a conspicuous place in the wars of Jenghiz Khan against the latter dynasty.

Wachsmuth holds the former view and regards the Tholos as merely a dining-room for the Prytaneis in the old democratic period.

Higher education is represented by the provincial university, which teaches science and mathematics, holds examinations, distributes scholarships, and grants degrees in all subjects.

The open grate still holds favour in England, though in America and on the continent of Europe it has been superseded by the closed stove.

He holds his office ad vitam aut culpam; he cannot demit it or be deprived, of it without consent of the presbytery.

Modern reform in Judaism is parting to some extent from this conception, but it still holds good even among the liberals.

As firewood oak holds a high position, though in Germany it is considered inferior to beech for that purpose.

Bach's conception of the function of an instrument is that it holds a regular part in a polyphonic scheme; and his blending of tones is like the blending of colours in a purely decorative design.

The greater richness of tone of the modern pianoforte is a better compensation for any bareness that may be imputed to pure two-part or three-part writing than a filling out which deprives the listener of the power to follow the essential lines of the music. The same holds good, though in a lesser degree, of the resources of the harpsichord in respect of octavestrings.

The chief minerals are sulphur, in the production of which Italy holds one of the first places, iron, zinc, lead; these, and, to a smaller extent, copper of an inferior quality, manganese and antimony, are successfully mined.

Campania holds the first place in the south, most of the savings of that region being deposited in the provident institutions of Naples.

He holds supreme command by land and sea, appoints ministers and officials, promulgates the laws, coins money, bestows honors, has the right of pardoning, and summons and dissolves the parliament.

Sidgwick holds that intuition must justify the claims of the general happiness upon the individual, though everything subsequent is hedonistic calculus.

This reveals the empiricist temper, and points to an attempted empiricist solution of great problems. Butler holds that more ambitious philosophies are valid, but he shrinks from their use.

If Mill's theism holds, what is it?

He holds - on grounds of fact and science - to the mechanical orderliness of nature, but claims that the Weltanschauung thus suggested may be reinterpreted in view of those undying human aspirations which MacTaggart dismisses to instant execution (unless they can dress themselves in syllogism).

By this law a tenant-farmer is able to bequeath his farm, that is to say, he holds his lease in perpetuity.

The land he tills he holds, and acquires a closer connexion with a particular patch of ground than either the hunter or the herdsman.

The Apocry- Torah, the Law delivered to Moses, held among the Jews of the 4th century B.C. as it holds now, a pre eminent position.

Bacharach was a man of wide culture, and holds an honourable place among the pioneers of the Jewish Renaissance which was inaugurated towards the end of the 18th century.

To "heave the log," a man holds the log-reel over his head (at high speeds the man and portable reel are superseded by a fixed reel and a winch fitted with a brake), and the officer places the peg in the log-ship, which he then throws clear and to windward of the ship, allowing the line to run freely out.

The peer holds a great position, endowed with substantial powers and privileges, and those powers and privileges are handed on by hereditary succession.

Under a kingly government office bestowed by the sovereign holds the same place which office bestowed by the people holds in a popular government.

The rubber trade is controlled by the Liberian Rubber Corporation, which holds a special concession from the Liberian government for a number of years, and is charged with the preservation of the forests.

The compromise of Aquinas, though not unchallenged, holds the field and that even with Protestants.

In provincial matters each province is independent, holds its own synods, makes its own laws, and elects its own governing board; but the General Synod meets, on the average, every ten years at Herrnhut, and its regulations are binding in all the provinces.

Gifford holds that Dekker's hand is perpetually traceable in the first three acts of The Sun's Darling, and through the whole of its comic part, but that the last two acts are mainly Ford's.

The same holds good of the Meshcheryaks, both Moslem and Christian.

In railway mileage per io,000 inhabitants, however, Queensland, in the Australian group, reports a figure much greater than any other country; while at the other end of the list Persia holds the record for isolation.

How far this scheme of sacrifice holds good for other areas, and in particular for more primitive peoples, is an open question.

Turning southwards we come again to the Forbidden City, the central portion of which forms the imperial palace, where, in halls which for the magnificence of their proportions and barbaric splendour are probably not to be surpassed anywhere, the Son of Heaven holds his court.

Although the state of North Carolina owns 70.3% of the stock (besides this Craven county holds 7.7%; Lenoir, 2.8%; and Pamlico county, 1.13%), the state casts only 35 o votes to the 700 of the private stockholders.

The society holds annual shows, publishes annually the Shire Horse Stud Book and offers'_gold and silver medals for competition amongst Shire horses at agricultural shows in different parts of the country.

He holds that freedom is the inalienable prerogative of the finite spirit; and this is the second point that distinguishes his theology from the heretical Gnosticism.

Pauli, who has published all the known inscriptions of the Heneti, holds that the language is Illyrian, closely connected with Messapian.

To the web is attached a trap-line which when drawn taut holds the snare stretched and tight, and when relaxed loosens the whole structure so that the threads fall together.

The Distress for Rent Act 1737, however, enables a landlord to recover double rent from a tenant who holds over after having himself given notice to quit; while another statute in the reign of George II.