hold vs ship

hold

verb
  • To have and keep possession of something. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

ship

verb
  • To put or secure in its place. 

  • To trade or send a player to another team. 

  • To engage to serve on board a vessel. 

  • To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel. 

  • To pass (from one person to another). 

  • To go all in. 

  • Leave, depart, scram. 

  • To send by water-borne transport. 

  • To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession. 

  • To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport). 

  • To embark on a ship. 

  • To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts. 

  • To release a product (not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch. 

noun
  • A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense. 

  • A spaceship (the type of pattern in a cellular automaton). 

  • A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship. 

  • A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, especially one explored in fan fiction. 

  • The third card of the Lenormand deck. 

  • A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat. 

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