To grasp or grip.
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 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.
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.
To grasp or grip.
To accept (zero or more arguments).
To seize or capture.
To remove.
To go.
To become; to be affected in a specified way.
To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
To proceed to fill.
To participate in.
To let in (water).
To move into.
To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
To assume (a form).
To go into, through, or along.
To apply oneself to the study of.
To deal with.
To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
To have sex with.
To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
To obtain for use by payment or lease.
To experience or feel.
To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
To carry or lead (something or someone).
To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
An intensifier.
To require.
To fill, to use up (time or space).
To avail oneself of.
To escort or conduct (a person).
To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
To receive into some relationship.
To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
To catch; to engage.
To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
To exact.
To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
To remove or end by death; to kill.
To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
To believe, to accept the statements of.
To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
To subtract.
To bind oneself by.
To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
To perform (a role).
To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
To accept and follow (advice, etc).
To use as a means of transportation.
To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity.
To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
To select or choose; to pick.
To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
To have the intended effect.
To regard in a specified way.
To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
To adopt (select) as one's own.
To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
To adhere or be absorbed properly.
To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
To understand (especially in a specified way).
To have and use one's recourse to.
A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
The or an act of taking.
A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.