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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: "/ði/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.

Example: It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.

Definition: With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none. See none the.

Example: I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.

Phonetic: "/dɔː/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.

Example: I knocked on the vice president's door

Definition: Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.

Example: the 24 doors in an Advent calendar

Definition: (immigration) An entry point.

Definition: A means of approach or access.

Example: Learning is the door to wisdom.

Definition: A barrier.

Example: Keep a door on your anger.

Definition: A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.

Phonetic: "/dɔː/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

Phonetic: "/ʃʌt/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Closed, shut.

Definition: Narrow; confined.

Example: a close alley; close quarters

Definition: At a little distance; near.

Example: Is your house close?

Definition: Intimate; well-loved.

Example: He is a close friend.

Definition: Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.

Definition: (Ireland, England, Scotland) Hot, humid, with no wind.

Definition: (of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.

Definition: Strictly confined; carefully guarded.

Example: a close prisoner

Definition: Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.

Definition: Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.

Example: a close contest

Definition: Short.

Example: to cut grass or hair close

Definition: Dense; solid; compact.

Definition: Concise; to the point.

Example: close reasoning

Definition: Difficult to obtain.

Example: Money is close.

Definition: Parsimonious; stingy.

Definition: Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.

Example: a close translation

Definition: Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.

Example: The patient was kept under close observation.

Definition: Marked, evident.

Phonetic: "/ʃʌt/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The act or time of shutting; close.

Example: the shut of a door

Definition: A door or cover; a shutter.

Definition: The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.

Phonetic: "/ʃʌt/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To close, to stop from being open.

Example: Please shut the door.

Definition: To close, to stop being open.

Example: If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut.

Definition: To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.

Example: The pharmacy is shut on Sunday.

Definition: To confine in an enclosed area.

Example: I shut the cat in the kitchen before going out.

Definition: To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.

Example: He's just shut his finger in the door.

Definition: To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.

Phonetic: "/ʃʌt/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Closed.

Example: A shut door barred our way into the house.