The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hold \Hold\, v. i. In general, to keep one's self in a given position or condition; to remain fixed. Hence:
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Not to move; to halt; to stop; -- mostly in the imperative.
And damned be him that first cries, ``Hold, enough!''
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Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
Our force by land hath nobly held.
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Not to fail or be found wanting; to continue; to last; to endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist.
While our obedience holds.
--Milton.The rule holds in land as all other commodities.
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Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant; to remain attached; to cleave; -- often with with, to, or for.
He will hold to the one and despise the other.
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To restrain one's self; to refrain.
His dauntless heart would fain have held From weeping, but his eyes rebelled.
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To derive right or title; -- generally with of. My crown is absolute, and holds of none. --Dryden. His imagination holds immediately from nature. --Hazlitt. Hold on! Hold up! wait; stop; forbear. [Collog] -- To hold forth, to speak in public; to harangue; to preach. --L'Estrange. To hold in, to restrain one's self; as, he wanted to laugh and could hardly hold in. To hold off, to keep at a distance. To hold on, to keep fast hold; to continue; to go on. ``The trade held on for many years,'' --Swift. To hold out, to last; to endure; to continue; to maintain one's self; not to yield or give way. To hold over, to remain in office, possession, etc., beyond a certain date. To hold to or To hold with, to take sides with, as a person or opinion. To hold together, to be joined; not to separate; to remain in union. --Dryden. --Locke. To hold up.
To support one's self; to remain unbent or unbroken; as, to hold up under misfortunes.
To cease raining; to cease to stop; as, it holds up.
--Hudibras.To keep up; not to fall behind; not to lose ground.
--Collier.
Hold up \Hold up\ (h[=o]ld [u^]p"), v. t.
To rob, usually at gunpoint or knifepoint.
To delay; as, bad weather held up the satellite launch for two days.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also holdup, hold-up, late 13c., "to keep erect;" 1837 as "to delay." The verb meaning "to stop by force and rob" is from 1887, from the robber's command to raise hands. The noun in this sense is from 1851.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context idiomatic ambitransitive English) To wait or delay. 2 To support or lift. 3 (context idiomatic English) To withstand; to stand up to; to survive. 4 (context idiomatic English) To fulfil / fulfill or complete one's part of an agreement. 5 (context idiomatic English) To rob at gunpoint. 6 (context transitive English) To impede; detain.
WordNet
v. be the physical support of; carry the weight of; "The beam holds up the roof"; "He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam"; "What's holding that mirror?" [syn: hold, support, sustain]
hold up something as an example; hold up one's achievements for admiration
cause to be slowed down or delayed; "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"; "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform" [syn: delay, detain] [ant: rush]
rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat [syn: stick up]
continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents" [syn: survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold out]
resist or confront with resistance; "The politician defied public opinion"; "The new material withstands even the greatest wear and tear"; "The bridge held" [syn: defy, withstand, hold]
resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.; "Her shoes won't hold up"; "This theory won't hold water" [syn: stand up, hold water]
Wikipedia
A Holdup is a form of robbery.
Hold Up, hold up, or hold-up may also refer to:
In the card game of contract bridge, to hold up means to play low to a trick led by the opponents, losing it intentionally in order to sever their communication. The primary purpose is to give as many tricks to opponents as needed to exhaust all the cards in the suit from one of their hands. If that hand regains the lead, it will not be able to put the partner on lead to cash its tricks. Hold up is one of basic techniques in play.
While mechanically identical, a hold up is in a suit played by the opponents while a duck (or ducking) is a manoeuver in one's own suit. Nevertheless, the terms are used interchangeably with duck or ducking more common.
"Hold Up" is a song recorded by American singer Beyoncé for her sixth studio album, Lemonade (2016). The song was serviced to rhythmic radios in the United States on August 16, 2016 as the third single from the album. It was written by Thomas Pentz, Ezra Koenig, Beyoncé, Emile Haynie, Joshua Tillman, Uzoechi Emenike and Sean "Melo-X" Rhoden; and it contains a sample of " Can't Get Used to Losing You", written by Jerome "Doc" Pomus and Mort Shuman; an interpolation of " Maps", performed by Yeah Yeah Yeahs and written by Brian Chase, Karen Orzolek and Nick Zinner; and an interpolation of " Turn My Swag On", written by DeAndre Way. A demo of "Hold Up" was first written and recorded by Diplo and Koenig in 2011, using a sample of "Maps".
The song's music video is part of a one-hour film with the same title as its parent album, originally aired on HBO. The video features Beyoncé destroying multiple cars and security cameras. According to Mashable, Knowles also makes reference of Oshun, a Yoruba goddess of water, fertility, love, sensuality. It received two nominations at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Female Video and Best Art Direction.
Usage examples of "hold up".
And it seems to me that if we are to appreciate their virtues, we must loathe and hold up to opprobrium those evil men whose malignity made all their sacrifices necessary.
Sometimes it may be called a caryatid, which is, as I understand it, a cruel device of architecture, representing a man or a woman, obliged to hold up upon his or her head or shoulders a structure which they did not build, and which could stand just as well without as with them.
Wherefore, when we hold up to infidels these harmonious proportions which you speak of as so many pictures of the real thing, since they do not think this belief of ours a reality, but only a fiction, they consider us, as it were, to be painting upon a cloud.
Then immediately they were all surprized to see him hold up his head wch he lett hang on one side before like a drooping calfe and speake as loud and clear as the ministre, to whom he said with a cheerful air hee was glad to see him, that hee need not question butt that hee would dye like a Christian and patiently too.
Not what you'd been hoping for, as you hold up his heart, glistening black, to the faint gray light of the streetlight above.
These are important and impressive findings, if they hold up over time, suggesting that self-help can potentially offer you cheap and effective help.
The north pole, we see, will be a somewhat more powerful lever than the south for working the globe to a straight position, but we may be sure that the latter, in connection with the former, will be able to hold up its end.
We must hold up our heads and fight low, as my brother Solomon used to say.
It had to be at least a thousand miles to Beregesh, and he didn't know how well he'd hold up, hiking day after day.