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Grip   /grɪp/   Listen
Grip

noun
1.
The act of grasping.  Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, hold.  "He has a strong grip for an old man" , "She kept a firm hold on the railing"
2.
The appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it.  Synonyms: handgrip, handle, hold.  "It was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip"
3.
A portable rectangular container for carrying clothes.  Synonyms: bag, suitcase, traveling bag, travelling bag.
4.
The friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road).  Synonyms: adhesive friction, traction.
5.
Worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made.
6.
An intellectual hold or understanding.  Synonym: grasp.  "They kept a firm grip on the two top priorities" , "He was in the grip of a powerful emotion" , "A terrible power had her in its grasp"
7.
A flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place.  Synonyms: bobby pin, hairgrip.
verb
1.
Hold fast or firmly.
2.
To grip or seize, as in a wrestling match.  Synonym: grapple.
3.
To render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe.  Synonyms: fascinate, spellbind, transfix.



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"Grip" Quotes from Famous Books



... baulked. There are so many knotted jungles of splintered rock, such frequent swamps, so much fallen timber. And, moreover, the watercourses and torrents were all new-bloated with the rain, so that we had to cast about for fords, and then to grip one another at stiff arm's length, so as not to get swept adrift whilst wading amongst the eddying boulders. And when at last we did come to the lake, we saw there in the gray dusk a thing which caused Ulus to ...
— The Recipe for Diamonds • Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
... come down in this part of the country and asked for work. He had his little grip just like you got. The man said, 'Wait till I go to dinner.' Didn't say, 'Come to dinner,' and didn't say nothin' 'bout, 'Have dinner.' Just said, 'Wait till I go eat my dinner.' When he come back, Abe Lincoln was up there looking over his books. He'd ...
— Slave Narratives: Arkansas Narratives - Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 • Works Projects Administration
... down we go. Don't look below, but just keep your eyes in front of you, and never leave go of one grip till you make ...
— A Final Reckoning - A Tale of Bush Life in Australia • G. A. Henty
... wild, last effort, and caught with one hand at the arm just within reach; his fingers closed upon it with a grip of iron, and another hand ...
— Nic Revel - A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land • George Manville Fenn
... could not be done, but I said we must attempt it. I was eager, and had not yet felt the awful grip of the cold. We left the Nufenen on our left, a hopeless steep of new snow buried in fog, and we attacked the Gries. For half-an-hour we plunged on through snow above our knees, and my thin cotton clothes were soaked. So far the guide knew we were more or less on the ...
— The Path to Rome • Hilaire Belloc


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