Hold

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Hold may refer to:

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Arts, entertainment, and media[edit]

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Technology[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • 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

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