单词 | grab |
释义 | grab (once / 426 pages) vn When you grab something, you clutch at it. When a party-goer breaks open a piñata, the other guests usually grab wildly at the candy that cascades out of it. You can grab for the string of a balloon as it floats away, or grab your friend in a hug. Another way to grab is to make an impression: "When I hear a marching band, it grabs my attention." A "grab bag" is a random mixture of things, or a bag of goodies you can reach into and grab from. If something's "up for grabs." it's available: "This last piece of pie is up for grabs!" WORD FAMILYgrab: grabbed, grabber, grabbing, grabs+/grabber: grabbers USAGE EXAMPLESPearson missed the front end of the one-and-one, Robert Champion grabbed the defensive rebound and Benzan drove for the winner. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) A: It really grabbed the imagination of people. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Did you hop in the shower, check your email or grab a doughnut? New York Times(Oct 18, 2016) 1v take or grasp suddenly She grabbed the child's hand and ran out of the room Hyper clutch, prehend, seize take hold of; grab 2v get hold of or seize quickly and easily Syn|Hypo|Hyper snaffle, snap up hog take greedily; take more than one's share take take into one's possession 3v take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of Grab the elevator door! Syn|Hypo|Hyper catch, take hold of catch be the catcher harpoon spear with a harpoon fishcatch or try to catch fish or shellfish hookcatch with a hook net, nettcatch with a net intercept, stopseize on its way crabfish for crab seinefish with a seine; catch fish with a seine scallop, scollopfish for scallops railfish with a handline over the rails of a boat brailhaul fish aboard with brails anglefish with a hook shrimpfish for shrimp net fishfish with nets sharkhunt shark trawlfish with trawlers still-fishfish with the line and bait resting still or stationary in the water seizehook by a pull on the line prawnfish for prawns cut off, cut outcut off and stop clutch, prehend, seize take hold of; grab 4v make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand The passenger grabbed for the oxygen mask Hyper move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion 5v capture the attention or imagination of This story will grab you Syn|Hyper seize fascinate, intrigue cause to be interested or curious 6v obtain illegally or unscrupulously Grab power Hyper obtain come into possession of 7n the act of catching an object with the hands he made a grab for the ball before it landed Syn|Hypo|Hyper catch, snap, snatch fair catch (American football) a catch of a punt on the fly by a defensive player who has signalled that he will not run and so should not be tackled interception(American football) the act of catching a football by a player on the opposing team reception(American football) the act of catching a pass in football reboundthe act of securing possession of the rebounding basketball after a missed shot shoestring catch(baseball) a running catch made near the ground interlock, interlocking, mesh, meshingthe act of interlocking or meshing touch, touching the act of putting two things together with no space between them 8n a mechanical device for gripping an object Hyper mechanical device mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles |
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