"Hold" is a word in ENGLISH
Binding power and influence.
The authority or ground to take or keep; claim.
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 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 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 impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to
bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
In general, to keep one's self in a given position or
condition; to remain fixed. Hence:
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.
Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant; to remain
attached; to cleave;-often with with, to, or for.
A place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; --
often called a stronghold.
Not to fail or be found wanting; to continue; to last; to
endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist.
To retain in one's keeping; to maintain possession of, or
authority over; not to give up or relinquish; to keep; to defend.
A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody;
guard.
Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to
remain unbroken or unsubdued.
The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck,
in which the cargo is stowed.
A character [thus /] placed over or under a note or rest, and
indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called also pause, and
corona.
To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute,
as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; 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.
Something that may be grasped; means of support.
To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or
privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
To restrain one's self; to refrain.
Not to more; to halt; to stop;-mostly in the imperative.
To derive right or title; -- generally with of.
To have; to possess; to be in possession of; to occupy; to
derive title to; as, to hold office.
Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing.
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Fr. (L. Latin: habendum et tenendum.) To have and to hold
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Read the complete definitionA board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, …
Read the complete definitionábat v [A2S; b6] hold on to s.t. fixed to support oneself. Ang tigúwang miábat sa pasamánu paingun sa táas, …
Read the complete definitionThe feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.
Read the complete definitionabrasíti v [C2; c2] promenade arm in arm or side by side. Nakit-an kung ímung bánang may giabrasíting (giabrasitíhang) babáyi, …
Read the complete definitionTo hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; …
Read the complete definitionThe act of abstaining; a holding aloof.
Read the complete definitionOne holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.
Read the complete definitionAn institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, …
Read the complete definitionTo value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
Read the complete definitionTo take assises; to take or hold the assises. Bract, fol. 110a; 3 Bl. Comm. 185. Ad asstsam capiendam; to …
Read the complete definitionTo hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; …
Read the complete definitionTo regard or hold; to judge; to deem.
Read the complete definitionA writ directed to a coroner commanding him to hold a second inquest. See 45 Law J. Q-B. 711
Read the complete definitionIn old English law. To annul;, to make void; to reduce to noth* ing; to treat as nothiug; to hold …
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Read the complete definitionagám-agám - Dim. and Freq. of agám. Also: to take a firm hold of, do (handle, manage) well (carefully).
Read the complete definitionagóng - A trickster, sneak, cheat, thief in a small way; to trick, cheat, deceive, obtain under some plausible pretext. …
Read the complete definitionagúd - That, in order that, so that; agúd índì or agúd dílì—lest, in order that not. Magtoón kamó, agúd …
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