Definition of Hold

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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.

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Hold Quotations

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
Thomas Jefferson

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn Monroe

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark Twain

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Warren Buffett

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
Abraham Lincoln

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Winston Churchill

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
Napoleon Hill

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin

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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