hold

verbA1UK /həʊld/ US /hoʊld/

To maintain or keep to a position or state.

To have and keep possession of something.transitive
To reserve.transitive
To cause to wait or delay.transitive
To halt or delay (medication) temporarily.transitive
To detain.transitive
To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).copulative, intransitive
To keep oneself in a particular state.copulative, intransitive
To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.transitive
To bear, carry, or manage.transitive
Not to move; to halt; to stop.imperative, intransitive
Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.intransitive
To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.

To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.

To maintain, to consider, to opine.transitive
To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.transitive
To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.

To win one's own service game.ambitransitive
To take place, to occur.
To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.imperative
To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.intransitive, slang

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Hold on, someone is knocking at my door.

You've got to learn to hold your tongue.