hold upとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

hold up (third-person singular simple present holds up, present participle holding up, simple past and past participle held up)

1. (intransitive, informal) To wait or delay.

   Synonyms: hold on, hang on

   Hold up a minute. I want to check something.

2. (transitive) To impede; detain.

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

   What is holding up traffic?

   • 2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport:

     It worked to perfection. Ferrari's decision not to stop on the next lap simply made life easier, especially when Alonso was held up by Marussia's Charles Pic during that period - for which the Frenchman earned a drive-through penalty.

   1. (idiomatic) To detain by threatening, usually with a weapon, in order to commit robbery.

      Synonym: stick up

      The guy tried to hold up a bank.

3. (transitive) To support or lift.

   Hold up the table while I slide this underneath.

   1. (figurative) To highlight, as if lifting up for display.

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

      held up for public ridicule

   2. (idiomatic) To fulfil or complete one's part of an agreement.

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

   • 1962 June, David Walters, “The new station and layout at Coventry”, in Modern Railways, page 405:

     In order to accommodate the new platform 4 and the reversibly signalled slow line, a deep cutting had to be cut back and held up in places with a concrete retaining wall.

   • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

     Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

4. (intransitive) To persist.
   1. (idiomatic) To withstand; to stand up to; to survive.

      hold up to scrutiny

      hold up to heavy use

      • 2023 August 23, Chris Howe, “Green screen: HS2's route through the shires”, in RAIL, number 990, page 34:

        The now infamous '108 woodlands' figure published by the Woodlands Trust, and later used by others to infer that HS2 would destroy 108 woodlands, does not hold up to scrutiny.

   2. To keep up; not to fall behind; not to lose ground.
      • 1697, Jeremy Collier, Essays upon Several Moral Subjects:

        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

   3. (idiomatic) To maintain composure despite hardship.

      how're you holdin up?

   4. (of a work) To continue to be seen as favorable, to avoid seeming dated.

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

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アナグラム

• Uphold, uphold

名詞

hold-up (plural hold-ups)

1. (colloquial) A delay or wait.

   Synonyms: cunctation, holdoff; see also Thesaurus:delay

   What is the hold-up?

2. (slang) A robbery at gunpoint.

   Synonyms: armed robbery, stickup

   This is a hold-up! Give us all your money.

   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:

     They didn't get shot to death in hold-ups, strangled to death in rapes, stabbed to death in saloons, bludgeoned to death with axes by parents or children or die summarily by some other act of God.

3. (bridge) The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later.
   • 1974, Terence Reese, Master Play in Contract Bridge, page 75:

     This was another hand on which a holdup caused declarer to lose control and to go down in a sensational way: […]

   • 2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, The Bridge Game:

     In a holdup, a player delays taking a trick until opponents' entries are reduced.

4. (in the plural) Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.
5. (military) The inventory of nuclear material within a separation plant.
   • 1978, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Intelligence and Military Application of Nuclear Energy Subcommittee, Hearings on H.R. 11036 (H.R. 11686) (page 361)

     And to the left is a portable gamma counter that tells us the holdup of plutonium recovery facilities.

   • 1989, Energy Research Abstracts, page 2046:

     During process operations and temporary shutdown, the holdup within the facility is also known as the in-process inventory.

6. (Nigeria) A traffic jam.

派生語

派生した語

• → Cebuano: holdap
• → French: hold-up
• → Tagalog: holdap

アナグラム

• Uphold, uphold