hold

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/həʊld/|[hɒʊɫd]|/hɔwld/|[hɔw(ɫ)d]|/hɔld/    /hoʊld/|[hoəɫd]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
    — We watched our luggage being loaded into the hold of the plane.
  2. A grasp or grip.
    — Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.
  3. An act or instance of holding.
    — Can I have a hold of the baby?
  4. A place where animals are held for safety
  5. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
    — Senator X placed a hold on the bill, then went to the library and placed a hold on a book.
  6. Something reserved or kept.
    — We have a hold here for you.
  7. Power over someone or something.
    — The Judge accepts the payment, the law no longer has a hold on you, and therefore you are free to walk out of the court a free man or woman.
  8. The ability to persist.
    — This year I slept and woke with pain, ⁠I almost wish’d no more to wake, ⁠And that my hold on life would break Before I heard those bells again: […]
  9. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
    — Sculpturing gels provide stiffer hold than styling gels, which provide better hold than mousses.
  10. A position or grip used to control the opponent.
    — He got him in a tight hold and pinned him to the mat.
  11. An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
  12. The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
    — The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
  13. The wager amount, the total hold.
    — As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
  14. An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
  15. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
    — So I felt my way down the passage back to the vault, and recked not of the darkness, nor of Blackbeard and his crew, if only I could lay my lips to liquor. Thus I groped about the barrels till near the top of the stack my hand struck on the spile of a keg, and drawing it, I got my mouth to the hold.
  16. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
  17. A pause facility. dated
    — A hold facility is available; H holds, and S restarts.
  18. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
    — Given that there is an average on-hold time of more than five minutes while enquiries are being dealt with, the telephone hold system provided the best opportunity.
  19. 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.
  20. A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
动词 v.
  1. To grasp or grip. transitive
    — Hold the pencil like this.
  2. To contain or store. transitive
    — This package holds six bottles.
  3. To maintain or keep to a position or state.; To have and keep possession of something. transitive
    — Hold my coat for me.
  4. To maintain or keep to a position or state.; To reserve. transitive
    — Hold a table for us at 7:00.
  5. To maintain or keep to a position or state.; To cause to wait or delay. transitive
    — Hold the elevator.
  6. To maintain or keep to a position or state.; To halt or delay (medication) temporarily. transitive
    — Patients who test positive for COVID-19 infection should be advised to hold their biologic dose until their infection clears.
  7. To maintain or keep to a position or state.; To detain. transitive
    — Hold the suspect in this cell.
  8. To maintain or keep to a position or state.; To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person). copulative,intransitive
    — to hold true
  9. To maintain or keep to a position or state.; To keep oneself in a particular state. copulative,intransitive
    — to hold firm
  10. To maintain or keep to a position or state.; To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain. transitive
    — We cannot hold mortality's strong hand.
  11. To maintain or keep to a position or state.; To bear, carry, or manage. transitive
    — He holds himself proudly erect.
  12. To maintain or keep to a position or state.; Not to move; to halt; to stop. imperative,intransitive
    — Lay on, Macduff, and damned him that first cries hold, enough!
  13. To maintain or keep to a position or state.; Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued. intransitive
    — Our force by land hath nobly held.
  14. To maintain or keep to a position or state.; To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
    — to hold one's bladder
  15. To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.; To maintain, to consider, to opine. transitive
    — She holds that passive index funds beat actively managed ones: she says that "set it and forget it," when done right, beats playing the market as a gambler.
  16. To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.; To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions. transitive
    — He was held responsible for the actions of those under his command.
  17. To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.; To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
    — Hold not thy peace, and be not still.
  18. To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.; To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
    — Stand fast and hold the traditions which ye have been taught.
  19. To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.; To restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back. archaic
    — His dauntless heart would fain have held / From weeping, but his eyes rebelled.
  20. To win one's own service game. ambitransitive
  21. To take place, to occur.
    — He came into the hall where the wedding-festival had held […].
  22. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
    — Elections will be held on the first Sunday of next month.
  23. To derive right or title. archaic
    — My Crovvn is abſolute, and holds of none.
  24. In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted. imperative
    — One ham-and-cheese sandwich; hold the mustard.
  25. To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale. intransitive,slang
    — […] first thing clients would say to me would be 'Are you holding?' I'd say yes if we had our supply and no if it was dangerous.
形容词 adj.
  1. Gracious; friendly; faithful; true. obsolete
    — at the proper moment, I stepped forward with a gay heart and a hold one

词形变化

holds present,singular,third-person holding participle,present held past held participle,past holden archaic,participle,past holds plural holds plural more hold comparative most hold superlative

词汇关系

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behold be left holding the baby buy and hold catch hold don't hold your breath forhold grab hold holdable hold a candle hold a candle for hold accountable hold against hold a grudge hold a gun to someone's head hold a light hold-all holdall hold all of the aces hold all of the cards hold all the aces hold all the cards hold a mirror to hold a mirror up to holdase hold a torch for hold back holdback hold back on hold by the button hold cheap hold come what may hold court hold dear hold down hold-down hold down the fort holder holdfast hold fast hold fire hold firm hold for ransom hold forth hold good hold hands hold hard hold harmless hold hostage hold in hold in contempt hold in derision holding hold in hand hold it hold it down hold it in hold it together hold my beer hold my milk hold off hold on hold one's alcohol hold one's breath hold one's drink hold oneself together hold one's fire hold one's ground hold one's head above water hold one's head high hold one's horses hold one's jaw hold one's liquor hold one's mouth right hold one's nerve hold one's nose hold one's nose up hold one's own hold one's peace hold one's pee hold one's piece hold one's piss hold one's tongue hold one's water hold on for hold on to hold onto hold onto your hat hold out hold over hold over someone's head hold ransom hold serve hold short hold someone's feet to the fire hold someone's hand hold space hold still hold sway hold tack hold that thought hold the aces hold the book hold the cards hold the floor hold the fort hold the line hold the phone hold the purse strings hold the reins hold the ring hold the road hold the stage hold tight hold to hold to account hold together hold to ransom hold true hold-up hold up hold up a mirror to hold up as hold up one's end hold-upper hold-up play hold-ups hold up to hold water hold with hold with the hare and run with the hounds hold yew hard hot hold inhold let someone hold offhold Omaha hold 'em one can't hold two watermelons in one hand one hand can't hold two watermelons onhold outhold overhold speak now or forever hold your peace Texas hold 'em to have and to hold too hot to hold underhold uphold withhold held and holding forehold mishold a-hold ahold anchorhold apron-string hold baggage hold basket hold breathhold choke-hold chokehold choke hold climbing hold commonhold copyhold fiefhold fingerhold first-order hold foothold gangsta hold get a hold of get hold of handhold hand-hold hold baggage hold-departure order holdless hold luggage holdman hold time household jug hold landhold lay hold of lay hold on lay hold upon leasehold legal hold leghold lifehold love hold luggage hold military hold mini-hold no holds barred octopus hold on hold personal hold pinhold resthold roothold shorthold sleeper hold stokehold stranglehold stronghold take hold threshhold throttlehold toe-hold toehold toe hold weapons hold wind hold wind-hold windhold winghold zero-order hold
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词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *haldaną
Proto-West Germanic *haldan
Old English healdan
Middle English holden
English hold
Derived from Middle English holden, derived from Old English healdan, derived from Proto-West Germanic *haldan, derived from Proto-Germanic *haldaną (“to tend, herd”), maybe derived from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to drive”). Doublet of halt.
Cognates
*West Frisian hâlde
*Low German holden, holen
*Dutch houden
*German halten
*Danish
*Norwegian Bokmål holde
*Norwegian Nynorsk halda.
Compare Latin celer (“quick”), Tocharian B käl- (“to goad, drive”), Ancient Greek κέλλω (kéllō, “to drive”), Sanskrit कलयति (kalayati, “to impel”).
词源 2
Alteration (due to hold) of hole. Cognate with Dutch hol (“hole, cave, den, cavity, cargo hold”), Dutch holte (“cavity, hollow, den”).
词源 3
From Middle English hold, holde, from Old English hold (“gracious, friendly, kind”), from Proto-West Germanic *holþ, from Proto-Germanic *hulþaz (“favourable, gracious, loyal”), from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to tend, incline, bend, tip”).
Cognate with German hold (“gracious, friendly, sympathetic, grateful”), Danish and Swedish huld (“fair, kindly, gracious”), Icelandic hollur (“faithful, dedicated, loyal”), German Huld (“grace, favour”).
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