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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clasp
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clasp your hands (=hold them together tightly)
▪ Emily clasped her hands together and stood there nervously.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He hands them over wordlessly, his other arm circling a briefcase with a broken clasp.
▪ It was about fifteen inches wide, of polished wood, and bound with brass clasps.
▪ Most exciting of all, the book had a small gilt clasp with a lock and key.
▪ The gilding was flaking off a clumsy clasp and some stitches had broken on the handle, leaving it frayed and shabby.
▪ The third time the clasp jammed.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
tightly
▪ His hands clasped tightly in front of his chest.
▪ Her sister, Rachel, sat on the couch, her hands clasped tightly together.
▪ She instinctively shrunk back against the wall, her hands clasped tightly against her chest.
▪ He stared straight ahead, hands clasped tightly in his lap, back straight, head up, shoulders squared.
together
▪ Kneel, feet and legs together, arms stretched above your head, hands clasped together.
▪ And he was leaning forward on his chair, his hands clasped together.
▪ His hands were clasped together as if to comfort one another.
■ NOUN
arm
▪ I found Sally clasped in the arms of some character with a loud taste in shoes.
▪ Then they clasped hands and arms, began dancing.
▪ He clasped Joanne in his arms, not for love or lust, just sheer joy at being alive.
▪ He stood there like an idiot as she clasped him by the arms and kissed him on the cheek.
▪ He clasped her arm and spun her about so she was facing the king.
chest
▪ His hands clasped tightly in front of his chest.
▪ She instinctively shrunk back against the wall, her hands clasped tightly against her chest.
finger
▪ His own hands involuntarily rise to clasp at my fingers.
▪ The child himself so thin you could have clasped your fingers around his waist.
▪ He clasped her fingers and brought them to his lips.
hand
▪ Leonora had small, well-shaped hands and clasped his warmly.
▪ Only her hands, clasping the edge of the table, betrayed her rage.
▪ His hands clasped tightly in front of his chest.
▪ Lilly stood at the window in the front room with her hands clasped behind her back, looking down into the woods.
▪ Kneel, feet and legs together, arms stretched above your head, hands clasped together.
▪ To Heather, she seemed delicate looking, poised with her hands loosely clasped in front.
▪ She picked him up with her left hand and held him clasped in her palm.
head
▪ He had his hands clasped behind his head and was leaning against the head-rest behind him so that his tanned throat was exposed.
▪ Patrick pulled his hands out from beneath the covers and clasped them behind his head, his eyes on the ceiling.
knee
▪ Kate's arms were clasped around her knees in an attitude she often took up.
▪ She stretched out across the floor and thrust her clasped hands between her knees.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Lie down with your hands clasped behind your head.
▪ The baby monkey clasped its mother's fur tightly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He clasped the royal hand and plastered it with three lingering kisses.
▪ I see nothing wrong with clasping them above the waist.
▪ Kneel, feet and legs together, arms stretched above your head, hands clasped together.
▪ Magrat clasped her hands together and looked down, biting her knuckles.
▪ The three sit silent for a moment, hands clasped in identical attitudes, staring at the table.
▪ To Heather, she seemed delicate looking, poised with her hands loosely clasped in front.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clasp

Clasp \Clasp\, n.

  1. An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc.

  2. A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand.

    Clasp knife, a large knife, the blade of which folds or shuts into the handle.

    Clasp lock, a lock which closes or secures itself by means of a spring.

Clasp

Clasp \Clasp\ (kl[.a]sp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clasped (kl[.a]spt); p. pr. & vb. n. Clasping] [OE. claspen, clapsen, prob. akin to E. clap.]

  1. To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).

  2. To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.

  3. To surround and cling to; to entwine about. ``Clasping ivy.''
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
clasp

c.1300, claspe, "metal catch or hook used to hold things together," perhaps a metathesis of clapse, and thus from or related to Old English clyppan "clasp" (see clip (v.2)).

clasp

late 14c., from clasp (n.). Related: Clasped; clasping.

Wiktionary
clasp

n. 1 A fastener or holder#Noun, particularly one that clasps. 2 (context in the singular English) An embrace, a grasp, or handshake. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To take hold of; to grasp; to grab tightly. 2 To shut or fasten together with, or as if with, a clasp.

WordNet
clasp
  1. n. a fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together

  2. the act of grasping; "he released his clasp on my arm"; "he has a strong grip for an old man"; "she kept a firm hold on the railing" [syn: clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip, hold]

  3. v. hold firmly and tightly [ant: unclasp]

  4. fasten with or as if with a brooch [syn: brooch]

  5. fasten with a buckle or buckles [syn: buckle] [ant: unbuckle]

  6. grasp firmly; "The child clasped my hands" [ant: unclasp]

Wikipedia
Clasp

Clasp, clasper or CLASP may refer to:

  • Medal bar, an element in military decoration
  • Fastener, a hardware device that mechanically joins objects together
  • "Clasp", a track from Jethro Tull's album The Broadsword and the Beast
  • Clasper, an anatomical structure in male cartilaginous fish
  • Clasper (mathematics), a surface (with extra structure) in a 3-manifold on which surgery can be performed
  • Grasp, holding or seizing firmly with (or as if with) the hand
CLASP (British Rail)

The CLASP ( Consortium of Local Authorities Special Programme) system was a scheme developed in the 1950s by English local authorities to devise a method of designing and assembling prefabricated buildings for use in the public sector. The former Southern Region of British Rail, the state-owned railway operator, adopted the system in the 1960s and 1970s and used it for signalboxes and station buildings. The Western Region also rebuilt some stations using the same methods.

Usage examples of "clasp".

Hands clasped behind his back, Abram walked to his desk and stood behind it.

Her companions were threaded along the trunk behind her, moving easily: the widow Philas apparently indifferent to her surroundings, Farr with his eyecups wide and staring, his mouth wide open and his chest straining at the thin Air, and dear old Adda at the back, his spear clasped before him, his good eye constantly sweeping the complex darkness around them.

Nom Anor paced forward, hands clasped to each other within the voluminous sleeves of a floor-length robeskin so black it gleamed.

The antistatic wire still hung from his wrist but its crocodile clip no longer clasped anything.

He and Audubon and Harris clasped hands and clapped one another on the back when the gangplank went down and passengers could disembark.

Again he enclosed both in his arms, reaching around their backs to clasp a breast of each.

The Reverend stood on the stoop, gray Borsalino hat clasped in hand, a nervous and apologetic look on his round face.

I run through the bresh, guided by the maddened howls which riz horribly on the air, and busting through some bushes I seen Uncle Jeppard rolling on the ground with both hands clasped to the rear bosom of his buckskin britches which was smoking freely.

As the balloon surged forward again, Tolland rammed his thumb into the carabiner latch and twisted the hook, trying to release the clasp.

From this Friar the pious Carthusian had heard of the many strange occurrences which had lately taken place at the castle, and waited anxiously till he could clasp his dear friend, the unfortunate Della Croisse, to his breast without a breach of propriety.

When they walked in on him, Hazelwood had adopted a typical Churchillian posture, gazing across the river at the Houses of Parliament, hands clasped behind him, a Burma cheroot in one corner of his mouth.

From left to right it featured a series of vises and clamps to give him the gripping or clasping ability now denied to him through the loss of his left arm and hand.

She slid from the desk and clasped the minihedron inside a corycium heart that dangled from her charm bracelet.

Their victim wore a cotehardie in a rich russet color, trimmed in fur with a jeweled clasp at the throat.

He closed his eyes, clasped his hands together, then began a prayer in the High Naren tongue, begging God to save Crinion and grant Alazrian his arcane strength.