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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 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
• Hold, in a card game (e.g., blackjack or poker, 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

Law

• Legal hold, a legal ruling or official declaration
• Senate hold, a US parliamentary procedure

Sports

• Hold (baseball), a statistic that may be awarded to a relief pitcher
• Climbing hold, on climbing walls
• Grappling hold, a specific grip applied to an opponent in wrestling or martial arts

Technology

• Hold (aviation), a manoeuvre designed to delay an aircraft already in flight while keeping it within a specified airspace
• Hold (telephone), a condition wherein a call is not terminated, but the connection is held and no speech can take place
• Authorization hold, a now common practice by bankers and retailers (especially gas stations)

Other uses

• Hold (title), an ancient Anglo-Danish and Norwegian title
• holD, a bacterial gene
• Hold or on hold, library books or other borrowed materials reserved for a particular borrower's use
• Marianne Hold (1933–1994), German actress
• Trevor Hold (1939-2004), English composer, poet and author

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Hold
• All pages with titles containing Hold
• Holder (disambiguation)
• Holding (disambiguation)
• To Have and to Hold (disambiguation)