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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