Word Meanings - HOLD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HOLD)

• Account Deem
• esteem
• consider
• regard
• hold
• judge
• rate
• estimate
• value
• reckon
• explain
• solve
• Adhere
• Stick
• cohere
• cleave
• attach
• unite
• fix
• join
• cling
• Arrest Seize
• take
• stop
• capture
• withhold
• restrain
• detain
• apprehend
• Avail Suffice
• stand
• endure
• answer
• tell
• profit
• help
• benefit
• advantage
• service
• use
• utility
• Bear
• Carry
• lift
• transport
• convey
• maintain
• uphold
• suffer
• undergo
• support
• tolerate
• waft
• yield
• sustain
• harbor
• entertain
• fill
• enact
• admit
• produce
• generate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HOLD)

• Eject
• expel
• discard
• discourage
• stifle
• exclude
• banish
• dismiss
• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge
• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• discontinue
• oppose
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert
• suppress
• Miscompute
• disesteem
• vilipend
• underrate
• undervalue
• underestimate
• cheapen
• vilify

Related words: (words related to HOLD)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• CLEMATIS
  A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• STICK-LAC
  See LAC
• CLIENTAGE
  1. State of being client. 2. A body of clients. E. Everett.
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• CLERICALISM
  An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.
• CLOTTY
  Full of clots, or clods. "Clotty matter." Harvey.
• CLARIBELLA
  A soft, sweet stop, or set of open wood pipes in an organ.
• AVAILABLENESS
  1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• CLAVIER
  The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium. Note: Clavier (
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• SPECTACLE
  An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Something exhibited to view; usually,
• CLAP
  1. To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings. Then like a bird it sits and sings, And whets and claps its silver wings. Marvell. 2. To thrust,
• INCLEMENCY
  1. The state or quality of being inclement; want of clemency; want of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; severity. The inclemency of the late pope. Bp. Hall. 2. Physical severity or harshness (commonly in respect to the elements or weather);
• PARAVAIL
  At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• SIPHUNCLED
  Having a siphuncle; siphunculated.
• CORPUSCLE
  A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood. Virchow showed that the corpuscles of bone
• ADENOSCLEROSIS
  The hardening of a gland.
• POKING-STICK
  A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak.
• ECLECTICISM
  Theory or practice of an eclectic.