hold vs part

hold

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. 

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. 

part

noun
  • The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. 

  • A unit of relative proportion in a mixture. 

  • The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece. 

  • Share, especially of a profit. 

  • A section of a document. 

  • Duty; responsibility. 

  • Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand". 

  • A group inside a larger group. 

  • In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds. 

  • A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense. 

  • A fraction of a whole. 

  • Position or role (especially in a play). 

  • A distinct element of something larger. 

  • 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink. 

  • A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region. 

  • A room in a public building, especially a courtroom. 

adv
  • Partly; partially; fractionally. 

verb
  • To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion. 

  • To leave (an IRC channel). 

  • To cut hair with a parting; shed. 

  • To leave the company of. 

  • To divide in two. 

  • To be divided in two or separated; shed. 

  • To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder. 

adj
  • Fractional; partial. 

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