Meanings (ES + gloss)
agarrar • aguantar • sostener • sujetar • tener • tomar
To grasp or grip.
But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to…
Hold the pencil like this.
detentar (illegitimately) • proteger • sostener • sujetar
To maintain or keep to a position or state.
Hold my coat for me.
The general ordered the colonel to hold his position at all costs.
reservar
To maintain or keep to a position or state.
Hold a table for us at 7:00.
mantener
To maintain or keep to a position or state.
Hold the elevator.
detener
To maintain or keep to a position or state.
Hold the suspect in this cell.
mantener
To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
She holds that passive index funds beat actively managed ones: she says that "set it and forget it," when done right, beats playing the market as a gambler.
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…
celebrar • llevar a cabo • realizar • sostener
To take place, to occur.
He came into the hall where the wedding-festival had held […].
Phrases
Omaha hold 'emTexas hold 'embe left holding the babybeholdcatch holddon't hold your breathforeholdforholdgrab holdheld and holdinghold a candlehold a candle forhold a grudgehold a gun to someone's headhold a lighthold a mirror tohold a mirror up tohold a torch forhold accountablehold againsthold all of the aceshold all of the cardshold all the aceshold all the cardshold backhold back onhold by the buttonhold cheaphold come what mayhold courthold dearhold downhold down the forthold fasthold firehold firmhold for ransomhold forthhold goodhold hands