The difference between Hold and Own

When used as verbs, hold means to grasp or grip, whereas own means to have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital).

When used as adjectives, hold means gracious, whereas own means belonging to.

Hold is also noun with the meaning: a grasp or grip.

check bellow for the other definitions of Hold and Own

  1. Hold as a verb (transitive):

    To grasp or grip.

    Examples:

    "'Hold the pencil like this."

  2. Hold as a verb (transitive):

    To contain or store.

    Examples:

    "This package holds six bottles."

  3. Hold as a verb:

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

    Examples:

    "'Hold my coat for me.  nowrap The general ordered the colonel to hold his position at all costs."

    "'Hold a table for us at 7:00."

    "'Hold the elevator."

    "'Hold the suspect in this cell."

    "to hold true;  The proposition holds."

    "to hold firm;  to hold opinions"

    "He holds himself proudly erect.  Hold your head high."

    "to hold one's bladder;  to hold one's breath"

  4. Hold as a verb:

    To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions. To maintain, to consider, to opine. To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions. 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 restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back.

    Examples:

    "He was held responsible for the actions of those under his command.  nowrap I'll hold him to that promise."

  5. Hold as a verb (tennis, ambitransitive):

    To win one's own service game.

  6. Hold as a verb:

    To take place, to occur.

  7. Hold as a verb:

    To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).

    Examples:

    "Elections will be held on the first Sunday of next month."

  8. Hold as a verb (archaic):

    To derive right or title.

  1. Hold as a noun:

    A grasp or grip.

    Examples:

    "Keep a firm hold on the handlebars."

  2. Hold as a noun:

    A place where animals are held for safety

  3. Hold as a noun:

    An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.

    Examples:

    "Senator X placed a hold on the bill, then went to the library and placed a hold on a book."

  4. Hold as a noun:

    Something reserved or kept.

    Examples:

    "We have a hold here for you."

  5. Hold as a noun:

    Power over someone or something.

  6. Hold as a noun:

    The ability to persist.

  7. Hold as a noun:

    The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.

  8. Hold as a noun (wrestling):

    A position or grip used to control the opponent.

    Examples:

    "He got him in a tight hold and pinned him to the mat."

  9. Hold as a noun (exercise):

    An exercise involving holding a position for a set time

  10. Hold as a noun ([[gambling]]):

    The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.

    Examples:

    "The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume."

  11. Hold as a noun ([[gambling]]):

    The wager amount, the total hold.

    Examples:

    "As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015"

  12. Hold as a noun (tennis):

    An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.

  13. Hold as a noun:

    The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.

  14. Hold as a noun:

    A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.

  15. Hold as a noun (video games, dated):

    A pause facility.

  16. Hold as a noun:

    The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.

  17. Hold as a noun (baseball):

    A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.

  1. Hold as an adjective (obsolete):

    Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.

  1. Hold as a noun (nautical, aviation):

    The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).

    Examples:

    "Put that in the hold."

  1. Own as a verb (transitive):

    To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.

    Examples:

    "I own this car."

  2. Own as a verb (transitive):

    To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.

    Examples:

    "The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon."

  3. Own as a verb (transitive):

    To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.

    Examples:

    "I will own my enemies."

    "If he wins, he will own you."

  4. Own as a verb (transitive):

    To virtually or figuratively enslave.

  5. Own as a verb (online gaming, slang):

    To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled .

  6. Own as a verb (transitive, computing, slang):

    To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.

  1. Own as an adjective:

    Belonging to; possessed; proper to. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.

    Examples:

    "They went that way, but we need to find our own."

  2. Own as an adjective (obsolete):

    Peculiar, domestic.

  3. Own as an adjective (obsolete):

    Not foreign.

  1. Own as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To grant; give.

  2. Own as a verb (intransitive):

    To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.

  3. Own as a verb (transitive):

    To admit; concede; acknowledge.

  4. Own as a verb (transitive):

    To answer to.

  5. Own as a verb (transitive):

    To recognise; acknowledge.

    Examples:

    "to own one as a son"

  6. Own as a verb (transitive):

    To claim as one's own.

  7. Own as a verb (intransitive, UK, _, dialectal):

    To confess.

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