HELD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does held mean? 

• HELD (adjective)
  The adjective HELD has 1 sense:

1. occupied or in the control of; often used in combination

  Familiarity information: HELD used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HELD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Occupied or in the control of; often used in combination

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Context example:

enemy-held territory

Participle:

hold (take and maintain control over, often by violent means)

 Context examples 

He still held the light, but his fingers twitched, and with every twitch the shadows sprang from the walls to the ceiling.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These depressions are held together by the strength of the surface dust layer, or regolith and tend to be more circular and symmetrical than large craters.

(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)

But they didn't determine how much water it held or how deep it went.

(Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior, National Science Foundation)

Findings were presented on Sunday during the 2018 Experimental Biology meeting held in San Diego.

(Artificial Sweeteners Can Still Lead to Obesity, Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

For the first time in a lab, researchers found evidence supporting the commonly held belief that people with certain physiologies lose less weight than others when limiting calories.

(Ease of weight loss influenced by individual biology, NIH)

He came back a moment later and put his head inside the door and said with warning finger held up:—Remember, she is your charge.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Even after decades of observations and a visit by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, Uranus held on to one critical secret — the composition of its clouds.

(What Uranus Cloud Tops Have in Common With Rotten Eggs, NASA)

Also, they held it a mercy, since Dave was to die anyway, that he should die in the traces, heart-easy and content.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

So my own father trained me, and six days a week I held out his walking-staff till my arm was heavy as lead.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Galaxy clusters are the largest and most massive objects in the Universe that are held together by gravity.

(Scientists Surprised by Relentless Cosmic Cold Front, NASA)