Meaning

• A grasp or grip.

  "Keep a firm hold on the handlebars."

• An act or instance of holding.

  "Can I have a hold of the baby?"

• 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.

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

• Something reserved or kept.

  "We have a hold here for you."

• Power over someone or something.

• The ability to persist.

• The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.

• A position or grip used to control the opponent.

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

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

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

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

• The wager amount, the total hold.

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

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

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

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

• A pause facility.

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

• 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.

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

Meaning

• To grasp or grip.

  "Hold the pencil like this."

• To contain or store.

  "This package holds six bottles."

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

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

• To win one's own service game.

• To take place, to occur.

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

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

• To derive right or title.

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

  "A martini, please, and hold the olive."

• To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.