Grip vs. Grab

Gripverb

(transitive) To take hold of, particularly with the hand.

Gripverb

(transitive) To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.

Gripverb

(intransitive) To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.

Gripverb

To trench; to drain.

Gripnoun

A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.

Gripnoun

A handle or other place to grip.

Gripnoun

A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.

Gripnoun

A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.

Gripnoun

A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).

Gripnoun

A lot of something.

Gripnoun

archaic spelling of grippe|nodot=1: Influenza, flu.

Gripnoun

(archaic) A small travelling-bag or gripsack.

Gripnoun

An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.

Gripnoun

Assistance; help or encouragement. en

Gripnoun

A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.

Gripnoun

(slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.

Gripnoun

(figurative) A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.

Gripnoun

A device for grasping or holding fast to something.

Gripnoun

(dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.

Gripnoun

(obsolete) The griffin.

Gripnoun

The griffin.

Gripnoun

A small ditch or furrow.

Gripnoun

An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.

Gripnoun

A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip.

Gripnoun

That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as, the grip of a sword.

Gripnoun

A device for grasping or holding fast to something.

Gripnoun

Specif., an apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.

Gripnoun

A gripsack; a hand bag; a satchel or suitcase.

Gripnoun

The influenza; grippe.

Gripverb

To trench; to drain.

Gripverb

To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe.

Gripnoun

the act of grasping;

Gripnoun

the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it;

Gripnoun

a portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes;

Gripnoun

the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road)

Gripnoun

worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made

Gripnoun

a firm controlling influence;

Gripnoun

a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place;

Gripverb

hold fast or firmly;

Gripverb

to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match;

Gripverb

to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe;

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;