give vs hold

give

verb
  • To be going on, to be occurring; Only used in what gives? 

  • To lead (onto or into). 

  • To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something). 

  • To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate. 

  • To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.). 

  • To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow. 

  • To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede. 

  • To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in. 

  • To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to. 

  • To devote or apply (oneself). 

  • To cause; to make; used with the infinitive. 

  • To pledge. 

  • To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield. 

  • To exceed expectations. 

  • To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.). 

  • To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). 

  • To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford. 

  • To make a present or gift of. 

  • To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone). 

  • To attribute; to assign; to adjudge. 

  • To yield or collapse under pressure or force. 

  • To provide, as, a service or a broadcast. 

noun
  • The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilience. 

hold

verb
  • To take place, to occur. 

  • To detain. 

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

  • To have and keep possession of something. 

  • Not to move; to halt; to stop. 

  • To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person). 

  • To contain or store. 

  • To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale. 

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

  • To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain. 

  • To win one's own service game. 

  • To cause to wait or delay. 

  • To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain. 

  • To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions. 

  • To maintain, to consider, to opine. 

  • To grasp or grip. 

  • To reserve. 

  • To bear, carry, or manage. 

  • To keep oneself in a particular state. 

  • To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function. 

  • Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued. 

  • To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain. 

noun
  • The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair. 

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

  • Power over someone or something. 

  • A place where animals are held for safety 

  • An act or instance of holding. 

  • Keep a firm hold on the handlebars. 

  • A position or grip used to control the opponent. 

  • The wager amount, the total hold. 

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

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

  • The ability to persist. 

  • An exercise involving holding a position for a set time 

  • An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with. 

  • Something reserved or kept. 

  • A grasp or grip. 

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

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

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

  • 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. 

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

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

How often have the words give and hold occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )