Hold may refer to:

Physical spaces

Hold (ship) 120px, View of the hold of a container ship A ship's hold or cargo hold is a space for carrying cargo in the ship's compartment. Description Cargo in holds may be either packaged in crates, bales, etc., or unpackaged (bulk cargo). Access to ho ...

, interior cargo space *

Baggage hold An airliner is a type of aircraft for transporting passengers and air cargo. Such aircraft are most often operated by airlines. Although the definition of an airliner can vary from country to country, an airliner is typically defined as an ai ...

, cargo space on an airplane * Stronghold, 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 Musical note, note or a Rest (music), rest) is a symbol of musical notation indicatin ...

, a pause, also called a Fermata * "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 and ...

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

poker Poker is a family of comparing card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules. It is played worldwide, however in some places the rules may vary. While the earliest known form of the game w ...

, the cards that are kept in a hand, not those discarded and replaced * Handhold (dance), 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. The legal hold is initiated by a notice or communication from legal counsel to an ...

, a legal ruling or official declaration * Secret hold, a parliamentary procedure

Sports

* Hold (baseball), 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 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 a la ...

, on climbing walls * Grappling hold, 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. Implementation A holding pattern for instrument flight rules (IFR) aircraft is usually a racet ...

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

Hold (telephone) In 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. Music on hold or o ...

, 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 unt ...

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

Other uses

* Hold (title), an ancient Anglo-Danish and Norwegian title *

holD Hold may refer to: Physical spaces * Hold (ship), 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 Fermat ...

, a bacterial gene *Hold or on hold,

library A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or digital access (soft copies) materials, and may be a physical location or a vir ...

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 serv ...

(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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