Grab

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  • intransitive verb. To take or grasp suddenly.
  • intransitive verb. To capture or restrain; arrest.
  • intransitive verb. To obtain or appropriate unscrupulously or forcibly.
  • intransitive verb. To take hurriedly.
  • intransitive verb. To capture the attention of.
  • intransitive verb. To make a grasping or snatching motion.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A sudden attempt to grasp or hold something.
  • noun. A sudden, often unscrupulous taking control or ownership of something.
  • noun. A mechanical device for gripping an object.
  • adjective. Relating or being an object or device that is grabbed or gripped for support or balance.
  • idiom. (up for grabs) Available for anyone to take or win.
  • noun. A usually two-masted, square-rigged Arab coastal vessel.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To seize forcibly or roughly; grip suddenly; snatch; hence, to get possession of rudely, roughly, forcibly, or illegally.
  • To strike the heel of the front foot with the toe of the hind foot: said of a horse.
  • noun. The act of grabbing; a sudden grasp or seizure; a catch; hence, acquisition by violent, dishonest, or corrupt means.
  • noun. Something that is grabbed or obtained by grabbing.
  • noun. A mechanical device for gripping an object; a grip. Specifically
  • noun. A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.
  • noun. A form of dredger-bucket used for digging soft materials; a clam-shell bucket.
  • noun. plural Same as skidding-tongs.
  • noun. In forestry, the stem of an alder, or other small tree, which is bent over and plugged into a hole bored in a boom-stick, or secured in some other way, to hold a boom or logs inshore.
  • noun. A children's game at cards, in which, when two or more cards of equal value are on the table together, the player who is quickest to recognize and grab them adds them to his own hand.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb. To gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch.
  • noun. A sudden grasp or seizure.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. at fairs, a bag or box holding small articles which are to be drawn, without being seen, on payment of a small sum.
  • noun. a theft committed by grabbing or snatching a purse or other piece of property.
  • noun. A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something)
  • verb. to restrain someone; to arrest
  • verb. to grip the attention; to enthrall
  • verb. to quickly collect or retrieve
  • verb. to consume something quickly
  • verb. To take the opportunity of.
  • noun. a sudden snatch (for something)
  • noun. a mechanical device that grabs
  • noun. a soundbite
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand
  • verb. obtain illegally or unscrupulously
  • verb. capture the attention or imagination of
  • noun. a mechanical device for gripping an object
  • verb. take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
  • verb. get hold of or seize quickly and easily
  • noun. the act of catching an object with the hands
  • verb. take or grasp suddenly
  • Word Usage
    "Proposed changes visible to users leverage grape system even for Groovy's GDK (may involve "bundled grapes") enhance GroovyStarter/LoaderConfiguration to support -- grab on commandline and grab in conf file (see also GROOVY-3215 conf file in Groovy) (slightly orthogonal but related change) enhance AST transform support to allow scripts to grab without need for a class or method definition, e.g. "@grab (...)"
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    catch  foray  guess  hug  jerk  
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