Crossword clues for grab
grab
- Be rude, in a way
- Reach for
- Get one's mitts on
- Get a hold of
- Screen __
- Lay hold of
- Latch on to
- Get a grip on
- Act greedily, perhaps
- Swoop up
- Sudden seizure?
- Snatch quickly
- Seize — snatch
- Obtain forcibly
- Impolitely take
- Glom onto
- ___ a bite to eat
- Word before bag or bar
- Land __
- Eat on the run, as a sandwich
- Catch the attention of
- Catch or snatch
- Be impolite at the table
- Act greedily, in a way
- Word with power and money
- Word with bag or bar
- Use tongs
- Take without warning
- Take impolitely
- Take hastily
- Take greedily
- Sudden taking
- Sudden seizure
- Sort of bag
- Snatch rudely
- Seize with a quick motion
- Rudely reach for
- Rude taking
- Rude dinner table move
- Really impress, slangily
- Quickly take hold of
- Pat Benatar "Every time I fall back, you ___ my shoulder"
- Partner of smash
- It may lead into a bag
- Harass, perhaps
- Get the attention of
- Get quickly, as lunch
- Get a grip?
- Get a good grip on
- Cyndi Lauper "___ a Hold"
- Catch hold (of)
- Capture the interest of, in slang
- Affect, in slang
- Act greedy
- ___ bag (assortment of various things)
- Seize suddenly
- Snatch suddenly
- Excite, in slang
- Appropriate
- Catch, as one's attention
- Snag
- Kind of bag
- Be rude at the dinner table
- Take 5, clue 3
- Excite, slangily
- Seizure
- Capture the attention of
- Interest, slangily
- Get, as a cab
- Interest greatly
- Take hold of forcefully
- Suddenly interest
- Really appeal to
- Take the wrong way?
- Show greed or impatience
- Snap up
- Act greedy, in a way
- Interest, informally
- Take in a hurry
- Clutch
- Appeal to, slangily
- Suddenly get the attention of
- Power ___
- The act of catching an object with the hands
- Collar
- CCC
- Capacity to stick
- Type of bag
- Seize eagerly
- Kind of bar
- Popular bag
- Choose greedily
- Latch onto
- Vessel almost capsized in capture
- Claim runs in game, after reverse
- Suddenly seize
- Seize hold of Greek sailor
- Take without asking
- Latch (onto)
- Impress deeply
- Impress greatly
- Get hold of
- ___ bag (collection of various things)
- Seize forcibly
- Take quickly
- __ bag
- Take suddenly
- Take rudely
- Take forcefully
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grab \Grab\ (gr[a^]b), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Grabbed (gr[a^]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Grabbing.] [Akin to Sw. grabba to grasp. Cf. Grabble, Grapple, Grasp.] To gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch.
Grab \Grab\ (gr[a^]b), n. [Ar. & Hind. ghur[=a]b crow, raven, a kind of Arab ship.] (Naut.) A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.
Grab \Grab\, n.
A sudden grasp or seizure.
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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.
Grab bag, at fairs, a bag or box holding small articles which are to be drawn, without being seen, on payment of a small sum. [Colloq.]
Grab game, a theft committed by grabbing or snatching a purse or other piece of property. [Colloq.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German grabben "to grab," from Proto-Germanic *grab (cognates: Old English græppian "to seize," Old Saxon garva, Old High German garba "sheaf," literally "that which is gathered up together"), from PIE *ghrebh- "to seize, reach" (cognates: Sanskrit grbhnati "seizes," Old Persian grab- "seize" as possession or prisoner, Old Church Slavonic grabiti "to seize, rob," Lithuanian grebiu "to rake"). Sense of "to get by unscrupulous methods" reinforced by grab game, a kind of swindle, attested from 1846. Related: Grabbed; grabbing.
1777, "thing grabbed;" 1824, "act of grabbing," from grab (v.). Up for grabs attested from 1945 in jive talk.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 a sudden snatch (for something) 2 a mechanical device that grabs or clutches 3 # a device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven 4 (context media English) a soundbite vb. (context transitive English) To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch. Etymology 2
n. A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.
WordNet
v. take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of; "Catch the ball!"; "Grab the elevator door!" [syn: catch, take hold of]
get hold of or seize quickly and easily; "I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale" [syn: snap up, snaffle]
make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand; "The passenger grabbed for the oxygen mask"
obtain illegally or unscrupulously; "Grab power"
take or grasp suddenly; "She grabbed the child's hand and ran out of the room"
capture the attention or imagination of; "This story will grab you"; "The movie seized my imagination" [syn: seize]
n. a mechanical device for gripping an object
the act of catching an object with the hands; "Mays made the catch with his back to the plate"; "he made a grab for the ball before it landed"; "Martin's snatch at the bridle failed and the horse raced away"; "the infielder's snap and throw was a single motion" [syn: catch, snatch, snap]
Wikipedia
Grab may refer to:
Grab is an application created by Apple Inc. for Mac OS X, used to take screenshots. Grab is also present in OS X's progenitors NeXTSTEP and OpenStep. It supports capturing a marquee selection, whole window, whole screen, and timed screen. Grab can be found in the Utilities folder under Applications, or by typing in /Applications/Utilities/Grab.app in Finder. The Grab utility can also be found in the Finder as a menu item by selecting "Services", then going to "Grab". The only image format for screenshots taken by Grab is TIFF. It can also be found using the Spotlight function (keyboard shortcut CMD SPACE)
This application is preinstalled on all recent Macintosh systems.
A grab is a mechanical device with two or more jaws (also called clamshells), used to pick things up or to capture things. Some types include:
- Roundnose grab
- Clamshell grab
- Orange-peel grab
- in Dutch and German they are called poliep grijpers/ Polypengreifer = " polyp grabs".
There are different ways of open/close the grabs:
- electro-hydraulic / diesel-hydraulic
- mechanical by rope(s) (1-rope, 2-ropes, 3-ropes, 4-ropes)
Grabs can be used for:
- dredging
- bulk handling (e.g. loading/unloading ships)
- salvage (e.g. ship-wrecks, oil)
Grab is a peak in northern Kosovo, on the border with Serbia.
Grab reaches a top height of approx. .
GRAB is a Chicago, Illinois LGBT entertainment magazine. The biweekly publication is distributed free in the Greater Chicago area. Founded in 2009 by Stacy Bridges and Mark Nagel.
GRAB organizes the annual Grabby Awards (better known as The Grabbys) to honor work done in the gay pornography industry. Both GRAB magazine and the Grabby Awards are owned and operated by Grabbys, LLC.
Grab (formerly known as GrabTaxi) is a mobile e-hailing application. Grab is a ride-hailing platform which offers a wide range of services through its app in Southeast Asia, available in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. As of July 2016, the number of drivers registered in the network was over 350,000, and the Grab app was downloaded onto more than 19 million mobile devices across Southeast Asia.
A grab was a type of ship common on the Malabar Coast in the 18th and 19th Centuries. The name comes from "ghurāb" or "ghorāb", Arabic for raven, which word came into Marathi and Konkani as "gurab". The ghurāb was originally a galley, but the type evolved.
The grab combined an indigenous hull form with a pointed prow, with or without a bowsprit, combined with European rigging on two to three masts. A description from 1750 states that the grabs of Angria's fleet narrowed from the middle forward and instead of a bow had the prow of a Mediterranean galley, covered with a strong deck level with the main deck but separated from it by a bulkhead. The grab pitched violently when sailing against a head sea so the prow sides were open so that water would easily run off. On the main deck under the forecastle there were two 6 or 9-pounder guns pointing forward through port-holes cut in the bulkhead and firing over the prow. The grabs then had 6 or 9-pounder guns on their broadsides.
The vessel was generally of shallow draft, and broad in proportion to its length. Size could range between 150 to as much 500 tons ( bm). The sail plan typically was that of a snow, or a brig.
One grab of some note was the Bombay, which belonged to the Bombay Marine, the British East India Company's (EIC) navy. The Bombay Dockyard built her in 1739 of teak. Bombay, of 430 tons (bm) and 24 guns, spent much of her career convoying vessels on the coast to protect them from pirates operating from states north and south of Bombay. A fire on 29 September 1789 destroyed her in Bombay Harbour.
Usage examples of "grab".
I reached around and grabbed the belt and hissed as fabric abraided my skin.
Granny Aching had nodded to the men, who grabbed the sheep and dragged it back into the barn.
She chose breath over sight and grabbed the aerator, quenching her agonized lungs even as the high-tech optics were torn off her head, turning everything black.
As I state in my affidavit, he became very agitated, grabbed me by the throat, threw me to the ground, kicked me several times.
Too much to hope that an afrit would leap out to grab my current master now.
Morris pulled out a line and attached it to the lug, then grabbed Bart and swam with him to a similar lug ten yards aft of the escape-trunk hatch and set flush into the deck.
As an afterthought, he grabbed his ball cap and threw it on his head, taking the stairs two at a time.
Keir grabbed the aiglets and held them tight until they fleshed out into hands once again.
Jack grabbed Akela around his chest and started to roll over with him but Akela escaped and pushed him over.
So he calls up Ernie and me, right here in this hide-out, and says to check on Renz and Alker and grab anybody that tries to follow them.
When he grabbed for it, she flung it across the room, lassoing the arm of an aluminite chair.
Impatiently, Brett reached down and grabbed Angelique none too gently by the elbow.
Reaching home after the flight from New Orleans, Sarchi grabbed her neuro anatomy text and read about the ansa lenticularis, the fiber bundle Latham was going to sever to treat Drew.
Lady Ansa grabbed one that had rolled across the room and tossed it to Gina, who grinned her thanks.
Remembering the alarm and what it signaled, she leaned through the car window, grabbed her black leather Chanel purse off the car seat, pulled an antacid bottle from its depths, and popped two of the tablets into her mouth.