hold vs lift

hold

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. 

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. 

lift

verb
  • To arrest (a person). 

  • To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale. 

  • To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot. 

  • To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing. 

  • To steal. 

  • to cause to move upwards. 

  • To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up. 

  • To lift weights; to weight-lift. 

  • To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.). 

  • To collect, as moneys due; to raise. 

  • To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.) 

  • To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise. 

  • To raise or rise. 

  • To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context. 

noun
  • A rise; a degree of elevation. 

  • A thief. 

  • The amount or weight to be lifted. 

  • The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere. 

  • An act of lifting or raising. 

  • One of the steps of a cone pulley. 

  • Air. 

  • Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building. 

  • That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given. 

  • An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft. 

  • An improvement in mood. 

  • The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock. 

  • The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip. 

  • Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically. 

  • A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard. 

  • A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe. 

  • The space or distance through which anything is lifted. 

  • The lifting of a dance partner into the air. 

  • A liftgate. 

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