Definitions from Wiktionary (hold)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To grasp or grip.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To contain or store.
▸ verb:  (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To have and keep possession of something.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To reserve.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to wait or delay.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To detain.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
▸ verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To keep oneself in a particular state.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To bear, carry, or manage.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, chiefly imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
▸ verb:  To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
▸ verb:  (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
▸ verb:  To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
▸ verb:  To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
▸ verb:  (archaic) To restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back.
▸ verb:  (tennis, ambitransitive) To win one's own service game.
▸ verb:  To take place, to occur.
▸ verb:  To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
▸ verb:  (archaic) To derive right or title.
▸ verb:  (imperative) In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
▸ verb:  (slang, intransitive) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
▸ noun:  A grasp or grip.
▸ noun:  An act or instance of holding.
▸ noun:  A place where animals are held for safety
▸ noun:  An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
▸ noun:  Something reserved or kept.
▸ noun:  Power over someone or something.
▸ noun:  The ability to persist.
▸ noun:  The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
▸ noun:  (wrestling, self-defense) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
▸ noun:  (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
▸ noun:  (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
▸ noun:  (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
▸ noun:  (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
▸ noun:  The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
▸ noun:  A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
▸ noun:  (video games, dated) A pause facility.
▸ noun:  The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
▸ noun:  (baseball) 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.
▸ noun:  (aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
▸ noun:  (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
▸ Also see hold

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