hold vs issue

hold

noun
  • An act or instance of holding. 

  • 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 

  • 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. 

verb
  • 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. 

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

issue

noun
  • The action or an instance of sending something out 

  • Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves. 

  • A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court. 

  • The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities. 

  • Any financial instrument issued by a company. 

  • The production or distribution of something for general use. 

  • A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty. 

  • Offspring: one's natural child or children. 

  • The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts. 

  • The entire set of something; all of something. 

  • The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group. 

  • The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs. 

  • A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object. 

  • The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out 

  • Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided. 

  • A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication. 

  • Any question or situation to be resolved 

  • The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period. 

  • Progeny: all one's lineal descendants. 

verb
  • To rush out, to sally forth. 

  • To deliver for use. 

  • To deliver by authority. 

  • To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from. 

  • To extend into, to open onto. 

  • To send out; to put into circulation. 

  • To turn out in a certain way, to result in. 

  • To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue. 

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