Grab
[græb] or [ɡræb]
Definition
(noun.) a mechanical device for gripping an object.
(verb.) capture the attention or imagination of; 'This story will grab you'; 'The movie seized my imagination'.
(verb.) take or grasp suddenly; 'She grabbed the child's hand and ran out of the room'.
(verb.) make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand; 'The passenger grabbed for the oxygen mask'.
(verb.) obtain illegally or unscrupulously; 'Grab power'.
Typed by Helga--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.
(v. t. & i.) To gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch.
(n.) A sudden grasp or seizure.
(n.) 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.
Checker: Mandy
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [Low.] Snatch, clutch, seize violently, gripe suddenly.
Checked by Dylan
Definition
n. a vessel on the Malabar coast having two or three masts.
v.t. (coll.) to seize or grasp suddenly: to lay hands on:—pr.p. grab′bing; pa.p. grabbed.—n. a sudden grasp or catch acquisition by violent or unjust means: that which is seized: a simple card game.—ns. Grab′-bag a bag containing a variety of articles to be obtained by putting in the hand and seizing one as at charity bazaars &c.: any dishonest means of seizing such profit or spoil as comes handiest; Grab′ber.
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Examples
- Why don't you ask me to step over instead of having one of these airplanes grab me? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- She sot down, said Joe, and she got up, and she made a grab at Tickler, and she Ram-paged out. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- This does not require any talent, because they only have to grab--if they do not get the one they are after, they get another. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As I did the same I felt the hand of the man behind me grab at my ankle, but I kicked myself free and scrambled over a grass-strewn coping. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was watching a chance to grab me. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Do you want to be grabbed, stupid? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Oh, the fellows evidently grabbed hold of everything they could get. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Then Agustín grabbed his arm and pointed and he looked across the gorge and saw Pablo. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- When he stopped, a breathless policeman grabbed him by the throat and ordered him to drop his parcel and explain matters, as a suspicious character. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I grabbed the whole thing and threw it in the sink, and poured water on it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One man came to the booth, grabbed a pencil, and attempted to write a message to Boston. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Club yourself,' I said and I hit him hard where it would hurt him and it hurt him and he dropped his hands from my head and grabbed himself and said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Didn't everybody want to make grabs at what they'd got, and bring 'em to poverty and ruin? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- A married woman grabs at her baby; an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Don't I know what grabs are made at a man with money? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Checker: Zelig