An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
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 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 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.
A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
A contiguous portion of an array.
A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
That which is thin and broad.
One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
A thin, broad piece cut off.
A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
A salver, platter, or tray.
A broad, thin piece of plaster.
An amount of anything.
A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
Having the properties of a slice knot.
To cut into slices.
To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.