To grasp is to get a hold of something, literally or figuratively. Grasp the grammar textbook with both hands and then read it to grasp the rules of the English language.
To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.
Noun
the act of grasping; "he released his clasp on my arm"; "he has a strong grip for an old man"; "she kept a firm hold on the railing"
Noun
a firm controlling influence; "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"
Noun
the limit of capability; "within the compass of education"
Noun
understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something; "he has a good grasp of accounting practices"
Verb
get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
Verb
hold firmly
v. t.
To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the
fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.
v. t.
To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly
acquainted or conversant with; to comprehend.
v. i.
To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to
clutch; to struggle; to strive.
n.
A gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or
infolding in the arms.
n.
Reach of the arms; hence, the power of seizing and holding;
as, it was beyond his grasp.
n.
Forcible possession; hold.
n.
Wide-reaching power of intellect to comprehend subjects and
hold them under survey.
n.
The handle of a sword or of an oar.
Grasp
Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff.2.
Grasp
As one that grasped And tugged for life and was by strength subdued.
Grasp
The whole space that's in the tyrant's grasp.4.
The foremost minds of the next . . . era were not, in power of grasp, equal to their predecessors.5.
To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.
To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive.
A gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms.
Usage Examples
I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.
Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story just beyond my reach. To grasp that brass ring I need to continue to fine-tune my talents.
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
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Other Usage ExamplesA sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.
Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.
Leaders grasp nettles.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
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