English Dictionary

hold

IPA（発音記号）

/həʊld/

動詞

他動詞 連結動詞 自動詞 命令法 古語 俗語

(transitive) To grasp or grip. / (transitive) To contain or store. / (transitive) To have and keep possession of something. / (transitive) To reserve. / (transitive) To cause to wait or delay.

日本語の意味

掴む・握る（物をしっかり持つ意味） / 含む・収納する（内部に収める意味） / 持つ・所有する・保持する（所有状態を維持する意味） / 予約する（席や部屋などを確保する意味） / 待たせる・遅延させる（予定や処理を遅らせる意味）

She asked him to hold the railing as they climbed the steep stairs.

彼女は急な階段を上るとき、手すりをしっかり握るように彼に頼んだ。

意味（1）

(transitive) To grasp or grip.

Hold the pencil like this.

意味（2）

(transitive) To contain or store.

This package holds six bottles.

意味（3）

(transitive) To have and keep possession of something.

Hold my coat for me. The general ordered the colonel to hold his position at all costs.

意味（4）

(transitive) To reserve.

Hold a table for us at 7:00.

意味（5）

(transitive) To cause to wait or delay.

Hold the elevator.

意味（6）

(transitive) To detain.

Hold the suspect in this cell.

意味（7）

(intransitive, copulative) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).

to hold true; The proposition holds.

意味（8）

(intransitive, copulative) To keep oneself in a particular state.

to hold firm

意味（9）

(transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.

We cannot hold mortality's strong hand.

意味（10）

(transitive) To bear, carry, or manage.

He holds himself proudly erect. Hold your head high.

意味（11）

(intransitive, chiefly imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.

Lay on, Macduff, and damned him that first cries hold, enough!

意味（12）

(intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.

Our force by land hath nobly held.

意味（13）

To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.

to hold one's bladder; to hold one's breath

意味（14）

(transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

意味（15）

(transitive) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.

He was held responsible for the actions of those under his command. I'll hold him to that promise.

意味（16）

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.

意味（17）

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.

意味（18）

(archaic) To restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back.

His dauntless heart would fain have held / From weeping, but his eyes rebelled.

意味（19）

(tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.

意味（20）

To take place, to occur.

He came into the hall where the wedding-festival had held […].

意味（21）

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

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

意味（22）

(archaic) To derive right or title.

My Crown is abſolute, and holds of none.

意味（23）

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

One ham-and-cheese sandwich; hold the mustard.

意味（24）

(slang, intransitive) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.

[…] 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.

holds （ present singular third-person ）

holding （ participle present ）

held （ past ）

held （ participle past ）

holden （ archaic participle past ）