hold

hold has 70 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• n.. The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
• v. t.. To cause to remain in a given situation, position, or relation, within certain limits, or the like; to prevent from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep in the grasp; to retain.
• v. t.. To retain in one's keeping; to maintain possession of, or authority over; not to give up or relinquish; to keep; to defend.
• v. t.. To have; to possess; to be in possession of; to occupy; to derive title to; as, to hold office.
• v. t.. To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
• v. t.. To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
• v. t.. To prosecute, have, take, or join in, as something which is the result of united action; as to, hold a meeting, a festival, a session, etc.; hence, to direct and bring about officially; to conduct or preside at; as, the general held a council of war; a judge holds a court; a clergyman holds a service.
• v. t.. To receive and retain; to contain as a vessel; as, this pail holds milk; hence, to be able to receive and retain; to have capacity or containing power for.
• v. t.. To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
• v. t.. To consider; to regard; to esteem; to account; to think; to judge.
• v. t.. To bear, carry, or manage; as he holds himself erect; he holds his head high.
• n. i.. In general, to keep one's self in a given position or condition; to remain fixed. Hence: