Hold may refer to:

Physical spaces

Hold (compartment) image:Hold of a container ship.jpg, 120px, View of the hold of a container ship A ship's hold or cargo hold is a space for carrying cargo in a ship or airplane Compartment (ship), compartment. Description Cargo in holds may be either packaged i ...

, interior cargo space *

Baggage hold An airliner is a type of airplane for transporting passengers and air cargo. Such aircraft are most often operated by airlines. The modern and most common variant of the airliner is a long, tube shaped, and jet powered aircraft. The largest ...

, cargo space on an airplane *

Stronghold A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from La ...

, a castle or other fortified place

Arts, entertainment, and media

Hold (musical term) A fermata (; "from ''fermare'', to stay, or stop"; also known as a hold, pause, colloquially a birdseye or cyclops eye, or as a grand pause when placed on a note or a rest) is a symbol of musical notation indicating that the note should be pr ...

, a pause, also called a Fermata * ''Hold'' (album), 2023 album by Wild Nothing * "Hold" (song), a song by Vera Blue * "Hold", a song by Axium from '' Blindsided'' * "Hold", a song by Saves the Day from ''

I'm Sorry I'm Leaving ''I'm Sorry I'm Leaving'' is an acoustic EP released by American rock band Saves the Day, released by Immigrant Sun on July 1, 1999. It differed from the band's debut album, '' Can't Slow Down'', by having a lighter acoustic sound. Background ...

'' * Hold, in a card game (e.g., blackjack or

poker Poker is a family of Card game#Comparing games, comparing card games in which Card player, players betting (poker), wager over which poker hand, hand is best according to that specific game's rules. It is played worldwide, with varying rules i ...

, the cards that are kept in a hand, not those discarded and replaced *

Handhold (dance) A handhold is a manner in which the dancers hold each other's hands during the dance Dance is an The arts, art form, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often Symbol, symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully s ...

, a type of hold in dance * Hold (novel) a novel by

Michael Donkor Michael Donkor (born 1985) is a British author and English teacher based in London. He is represented by Blake Friedmann and Fourth Estate (imprint), Fourth Estate. Early life and education Donkor was born in London to a Ghanaian people, Ghan ...

Law

Legal hold A legal hold is a process that an organization uses to preserve all forms of potentially relevant information when litigation is pending or reasonably anticipated. It is often issued when an organization receives a request for production in pendi ...

, a legal ruling or official declaration *

Senate hold In the United States Senate, a hold is a parliamentary procedure permitted by the Standing Rules of the United States Senate which allows one or more Senators to prevent a motion to proceed with consideration of a certain manner from reaching a vo ...

, a US parliamentary procedure

Sports

Hold (baseball) A hold (abbreviated HLD, H or HD) is awarded to a relief pitcher who meets the following three conditions: # Enters the game in a save situation; that is, when all of the following three conditions apply: ## He appears in relief (i.e., is not ...

, a statistic that may be awarded to a relief pitcher *

Climbing hold A climbing hold is a shaped grip that is usually attached to a climbing wall so that climbers can grab or step on it. On most walls, climbing holds are arranged in paths called routes, by specially trained route setters. Climbing holds come in ...

, on climbing walls *

Grappling hold A grappling hold, commonly referred to simply as a hold that in Japanese language, Japanese is referred to as ''katame-waza'' ( "grappling technique"), is any specific grappling, wrestling, judo, or other martial art grip that is applied to an ...

, a specific grip applied to an opponent in wrestling or martial arts

Technology

Hold (aviation) In aviation, holding (or flying a hold) is a maneuver designed to delay an aircraft already in flight while keeping it within a specified airspace; i.e. "going in circles." Implementation A holding pattern for instrument flight rules (IFR) a ...

, a manoeuvre designed to delay an aircraft already in flight while keeping it within a specified airspace *

Hold (telephone) In telephone, telephony, a call may be placed on hold, in which case the connection is not terminated but no verbal communication is possible until the call is removed from hold by the same or another extension on the key telephone system. Mus ...

, a condition wherein a call is not terminated, but the connection is held and no speech can take place *

Authorization hold Authorization hold (also card authorization, preauthorization, or preauth) is a service offered by credit and debit card providers whereby the provider puts a hold of the amount approved by the cardholder, reducing the balance of available funds u ...

, a now common practice by bankers and retailers (especially gas stations)

Other uses

Hold (title) Hold (or Hauld) was a title of nobility, used in early medieval Scandinavia and the English Danelaw. History Holds were described as "noblemen of exalted rank" in Viking Northumbria by Frank Stenton, with a wergild of 4000 thrymsas, equivalent t ...

, an ancient Anglo-Danish and Norwegian title *

holD Hold may refer to: Physical spaces * Hold (compartment), interior cargo space * Baggage hold, cargo space on an airplane * Stronghold, a castle or other fortified place Arts, entertainment, and media * Hold (musical term), a pause, also called ...

, a bacterial gene *Hold or on hold,

library A library is a collection of Book, books, and possibly other Document, materials and Media (communication), media, that is accessible for use by its members and members of allied institutions. Libraries provide physical (hard copies) or electron ...

books or other borrowed materials reserved for a particular borrower's use *

Marianne Hold Marianne Hold (15 May 1933 – 11 September 1994) was a German movie actress who became popular in the 1950s and 1960s for her numerous roles in the '' Heimatfilm'' genre—romantic comedy films set in rural, especially Alpine, areas. She se ...

(1933–1994), German actress *

Trevor Hold Trevor Hold (21 September 1939 – 28 January 2004) was an English composer, poet and author, best known for his song cycles, many of them setting his own poetry. Biography Born in Northampton, Hold suffered an attack of polio at the age of seven ...

(1939-2004), English composer, poet and author

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