hold

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Verb

1. To grasp or grip.
2. To contain or store.
3. To maintain or keep to a position or state.
4. To maintain or keep to a position or state.
5. To maintain or keep to a position or state.
6. To maintain or keep to a position or state.
7. To maintain or keep to a position or state.
8. To maintain or keep to a position or state.
9. To maintain or keep to a position or state.
10. To maintain or keep to a position or state.
11. To maintain or keep to a position or state.
12. To maintain or keep to a position or state.
13. To maintain or keep to a position or state.
14. To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
15. To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
16. To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
17. To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
18. To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
19. To win one's own service game.
20. To take place, to occur.
21. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
22. To derive right or title.
23. In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
24. (slang) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.

Noun

1. A grasp or grip.
2. An act or instance of holding.
3. A place where animals are held for safety
4. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
5. Something reserved or kept.
6. Power over someone or something.
7. The ability to persist.
8. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
9. A position or grip used to control the opponent.
10. An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
11. The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
12. The wager amount, the total hold.
13. An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
14. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
15. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
16. A pause facility.
17. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
18. 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.
19. A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.

Noun

The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).

Adj

Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/həʊld/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

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”).
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”).

Προτάσεις

Try to make eye contact with a stranger on the bus , and hold it for five seconds , without speaking .

Προσπαθήστε να κάνετε επαφή με έναν ξένο στο λεωφορείο και κρατήστε το για πέντε δευτερόλεπτα, χωρίς να μιλήσετε.