hold up

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To wait or delay.

   “Hold up a minute. I want to check something.”

2. fiil To impede; detain.

   “I've got to get to work now. Why are you holding me up?”

3. fiil To detain by threatening, usually with a weapon, in order to commit robbery.

   “The guy tried to hold up a bank.”

4. fiil To support or lift.

   “Hold up the table while I slide this underneath.”

5. fiil To highlight, as if lifting up for display.

   “His lectures held up Napoleon as an example of the phenomenon.”

6. fiil To fulfil or complete one's part of an agreement.

   “I don't think he's holding up his end of the bargain.”

7. fiil To withstand; to stand up to; to survive.

   “hold up to scrutiny”

8. fiil To keep up; not to fall behind; not to lose ground.

   “For what will the World say; Why could not he hold up? What made him come on so heavily, but that he wanted either Management or Metal”

9. fiil To maintain composure despite hardship.

   “how're you holdin up?”

10. fiil To continue to be seen as favorable, to avoid seeming dated.

    “Bride of Frankenstein is an old film, but it holds up.”