dump vs hold

dump

verb
  • To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it 

  • To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping. 

  • To precipitate (especially snow) heavily. 

  • To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner. 

  • To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug. 

  • Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards. 

  • To end a romantic relationship with. 

  • To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it. 

  • To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants. 

noun
  • An act of defecation; a defecating. 

  • A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site. 

  • An act of dumping, or its result. 

  • That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess. 

  • An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place. 

  • Absence of mind; reverie. 

  • A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. 

  • A pile of ore or rock. 

  • A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold. 

  • A deep hole in a river bed; a pool. 

  • A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar). 

  • A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency. 

  • A storage place for supplies, especially military. 

  • A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program. 

hold

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

  • To detain. 

  • To take place, to occur. 

  • 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. 

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. 

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