grab

IPA: grˈæb

noun

  • (countable) A sudden snatch at something.
  • (countable) An acquisition by violent or unjust means.
  • (countable) A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.
  • A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
  • (countable, media) A sound bite.
  • (obsolete) That which is seized.
  • (uncountable) A simple card game.
  • A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.
  • A Singaporean company which provides taxi rides and food deliveries, and provides a system of electronic payments.
  • The electronic mobile app of the same name that provides these services.
  • (Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, informal) A taxi ride booked through the Grab app.

verb

  • (transitive) To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
  • (intransitive) To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
  • To restrain someone; to arrest.
  • (transitive) To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest.
  • (informal) To quickly collect, retrieve, or take.
  • (informal) To consume something quickly.
  • To take the opportunity of.
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Examples of "grab" in Sentences

  • He grabs on to the door jamb.
  • He grabbed a jag of the cliff.
  • Grab the keycard from the table.
  • A champagne cork is hard to grab.
  • The player should grab the coins.
  • He grabs a towel off of the rack.
  • He grabs a stylus and touches the screen.
  • Grab a bite to eat there and savor the goodness.
  • He grabbed the book and threw it into the stove.
  • He grabbed feather of a chicken when he tried to catch it.
  • Lester might want to reach through mic in grab your throat but.
  • I don't know about the movie, but that one screen grab is delicious.
  • It's either your title grab your viewers 'attention or they simply decide that they are not interested.
  • No need here to recount the sorry story of Referendum C. If Ref C was a drunk running a tab, pillaging Pinnacol would be a smash-and-grab from the plate glass of the liquor store.
  • But the Cash for Clunkers program has been revealed as a total taxpayer money giveaway to Japan with severely NEGATIVE environmental impacts, the health care power-grab is being seen for its true colors – everything the Obamessiah touches turns to garbage.
  • 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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