Grab vs. Grasp
Grabverb
(transitive) To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
Grabverb
(intransitive) To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
Grabverb
To restrain someone; to arrest.
Grabverb
To grip the attention; to enthrall.
Grabverb
(informal) To quickly collect or retrieve.
Grabverb
(informal) To consume something quickly.
Grabverb
To take the opportunity of.
Grabnoun
(countable) A sudden snatch at something.
Grabnoun
(countable) An acquisition by violent or unjust means.
Grabnoun
(countable) A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.
Grabnoun
A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
Grabnoun
A sound bite.
Grabnoun
(obsolete) That which is seized.
Grabnoun
(uncountable) A simple card game.
Grabnoun
A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.
Grabnoun
A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.
Grabnoun
A sudden grasp or seizure.
Grabnoun
An instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them; - specially applied to devices for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
Grabverb
To gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch.
Grabnoun
a mechanical device for gripping an object
Grabnoun
the act of catching an object with the hands;
Grabverb
take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of;
Grabverb
get hold of or seize quickly and easily;
Grabverb
make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand;
Grabverb
obtain illegally or unscrupulously;
Grabverb
take or grasp suddenly;
Grabverb
capture the attention or imagination of;
Graspverb
To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
Graspverb
To understand.
Graspverb
To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance.
Graspnoun
Grip.
Graspnoun
Understanding.
Graspnoun
That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.
Graspverb
To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.
Graspverb
To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with; to comprehend.
Graspverb
To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive.
Graspnoun
A gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms.
Graspnoun
Reach of the arms; hence, the power of seizing and holding; as, it was beyond his grasp.
Graspnoun
Forcible possession; hold.
Graspnoun
Wide-reaching power of intellect to comprehend subjects and hold them under survey.
Graspnoun
The handle of a sword or of an oar.
Graspnoun
understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something;
Graspnoun
the limit of capability;
Graspnoun
a firm controlling influence;
Graspnoun
the act of grasping;
Graspverb
hold firmly
Graspverb
get the meaning of something;
Grasp
A grasp is an act of taking, holding or seizing firmly with (or as if with) the hand. An example of a grasp is the handshake, wherein two people grasp one of each other's like hands.
