hold
/hoʊld/ sustantivo C2En español: presa, agarre
- A grasp or grip. · Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- An act or instance of holding. · Can I have a hold of the baby?
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with. · Senator X placed a hold on the bill, then went to the library and placed a hold on a book.
- Something reserved or kept. · We have a hold here for you.
- Power over someone or something. · The fad has gained a sure hold on every teenager.
- The ability to persist.
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
Plural holds
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
- hold back frenarse, refrenarse, contenerse
- hold by To subscribe to (an idea , rule, authority, etc.); to per...
- hold down retener, sujetar, detener
- hold in To keep something to oneself; to prevent from escaping.
- hold off posponer, retrasar
- hold on aguantar, bancar
- hold onto To manage to keep something.
- hold out extender, esperar, aguantar
- hold over (Of a resource) To support or sustain someone for a limit...
- hold up aguaitar, esperar, mantener
De la biblioteca
“Hold your tongue, you fool!—what should you know about it?—why, you were drunk!”
I am, temporarily, commander of the Pharaon, with the certainty of being permanently so, if that fool of a Caderousse can be persuaded to hold his tongue.
So she took hold of his arm and managed to get along fairly well.
So she oiled it, and as it was quite badly rusted the Scarecrow took hold of the tin head and moved it gently from side to side until it worked freely, and then the man could turn it himself.
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