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Phonetic: "/həʊld/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A grasp or grip.

Example: Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.

Definition: An act or instance of holding.

Example: Can I have a hold of the baby?

Definition: A place where animals are held for safety

Definition: An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.

Example: Senator X placed a hold on the bill, then went to the library and placed a hold on a book.

Definition: Something reserved or kept.

Example: We have a hold here for you.

Definition: Power over someone or something.

Definition: The ability to persist.

Definition: The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.

Definition: A position or grip used to control the opponent.

Example: He got him in a tight hold and pinned him to the mat.

Definition: (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time

Definition: The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.

Example: The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.

Definition: The wager amount, the total hold.

Example: As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015

Definition: An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.

Definition: The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.

Definition: A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.

Definition: A pause facility.

Definition: The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.

Definition: 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.

Definition: A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.

Phonetic: "/həʊld/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To grasp or grip.

Example: Hold the pencil like this.

Definition: To contain or store.

Example: This package holds six bottles.

Definition: (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.

Definition: (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.

Definition: To win one's own service game.

Definition: To take place, to occur.

Definition: To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).

Example: Elections will be held on the first Sunday of next month.

Definition: To derive right or title.

Definition: In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.

Example: A martini, please, and hold the olive.

Definition: To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.

Phonetic: "/ˈhɔrsəs/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.

Definition: Equipment with legs.

Definition: Type of equipment.

Definition: A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.

Definition: The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.

Definition: An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see Variations of basketball#H-O-R-S-E).

Definition: (among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

Definition: (among students) horseplay; tomfoolery

Phonetic: "/ˈhɔrsəs/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)

Definition: To provide with a horse; supply horses for.

Definition: To get on horseback.

Definition: To sit astride of; to bestride.

Definition: (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).

Definition: To take or carry on the back.

Definition: To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; (hence) to flog.

Definition: To urge at work tyrannically.

Definition: To charge for work before it is finished.