grab

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sudden snatch at something. countable
    — The ball popped in and popped out, and when he made a grab for it on the ground he kicked it with his foot.
  2. A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.
  3. An acquisition by violent or unjust means. countable
  4. A mechanical device that grabs or clutches. countable
    — Almost all modern cranes are electrically operated and a quick-acting type of 30 cwt. capacity is suitable for general cargo, but not powerful enough to operate grabs for discharge of bulk cargoes.
  5. 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,uncountable
  6. A sound bite. countable
    — For example, one radio bulletin may feature one central issue, like a state election, and will focus on that issue. The bulletin might contain only a few voice wraps but many grabs, leaving the focus firmly on the newsreader.
  7. That which is seized. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  8. The rescue of a person from a burning structure. countable,slang,uncountable
    — There have been many rescues made as a result of an aggressive search team who went in without a hoseline to make the grab.
  9. A simple card game. uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch. transitive
    — I grabbed her hand to pull her back from the cliff edge.
  2. To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something). intransitive
    — The suspect suddenly broke free and grabbed at the policeman's gun.
  3. To restrain someone; to arrest.
  4. To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest. transitive
    — How does that idea grab you?
  5. To quickly collect, retrieve, or take. informal
    — Come in and grab a seat [i.e. sit down].
  6. To consume something quickly. informal
    — We'll just grab a sandwich and then we'll be on our way.
  7. To take the opportunity of.
    — Both teams wasted good opportunities to score but it was the London side who did grab what proved to be the decisive third when the unmarked Vaz Te, a January signing from Barnsley, drilled the ball into the net from 12 yards.

词形变化

grabs present,singular,third-person grabbing participle,present grabbed participle,past grabbed past grabs plural grabs plural ghorab alternative ghrab alternative ghurab alternative gurab alternative

词汇关系

近义词
catch clutch grasp seize snatch
衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle Dutch grabben or Middle Low German grabben (“to grasp, grab, seize, snatch”), from Old Saxon gravan, from Proto-West Germanic *grabbōn, a secondary form of Proto-Germanic *grabōną (“to gather, rake”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to gather, rake, grab, seize”).
Related to archaic German grappen (“to grab”), Danish grabbe (“to grab”), Swedish grabba (“to grab”), Old Norse grápa (“to seize, appropriate”), Middle English grappen (“to feel, grope, grasp, clutch”), Old English ġegræppian (“to seize”).
Related also to Sanskrit गृह्णाति (gṛhṇā́ti), गृभ्णाति (gṛbhṇā́ti, “he seizes”), Avestan 𐬔𐬭𐬀𐬠 (grab, “to seize”)), Macedonian грабне (grabne, “to snatch”), Bulgarian грабя (grabja, “to rob, to grab”).
词源 2
From Arabic غُرَاب (ḡurāb) and Hindi ghurb?: crow, raven, a kind of Arab ship.
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