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grab::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | catch, snap, snatch |
| Type of | touching, touch |
| Has types | mesh, shoestring catch, interlocking, fair catch, reception, interlock, rebound, meshing, interception |
he made a grab for the ball before it landed.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | mechanical device |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | obtain |
Examples of grab
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He's good at the specialty, and a team might just grab him in the seventh round.
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Collectors got a penny apiece to grab red harvester ants from the Mojave Desert.
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West managed to grab the lead about 13 minutes into an evenly played first half.
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Walk into any of the many corporate suites and grab a new one with a logo on it.
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Often too busy to eat, they tend to grab snack foods, and prefer the quick meal.
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Thankfully, other than leaning over to grab more food, you don't do much moving.
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Gonzalez saved three set points in the first set to grab the lead he never lost.
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Her staff had just minutes to grab lists of clients and temps before evacuating.
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On the good side, it left me room to grab some of Randy's famous L.A. doughnuts.
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- A mechanical device for gripping an object
- Catch: take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of; "Catch the ball!"; "Grab the elevator door!"
- Catch: 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"
- Snap up: get hold of or seize quickly and easily; "I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale"
- Make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand; "The passenger grabbed for the oxygen mask"
- Obtain illegally or unscrupulously; "Grab power"
- Galactic Radiation and Background (GRAB) was the covername for Project Dyno ELINT intelligence satellites operated by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) shortly after the Cold War U-2 incident of 1960. ...
- Grab is an application created by Apple Computer 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. ...
- 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 they are called poliep grijpers = "polyp grabs".
