What does grab mean?

Definitions for grab
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This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word grab.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. grabnoun

    a mechanical device for gripping an object

  2. catch, grab, snatch, snapverb

    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"

  3. catch, grab, take hold ofverb

    take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of

    "Catch the ball!"; "Grab the elevator door!"

  4. snap up, snaffle, grabverb

    get hold of or seize quickly and easily

    "I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale"

  5. grabverb

    make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand

    "The passenger grabbed for the oxygen mask"

  6. grabverb

    obtain illegally or unscrupulously

    "Grab power"

  7. grabverb

    take or grasp suddenly

    "She grabbed the child's hand and ran out of the room"

  8. grab, seizeverb

    capture the attention or imagination of

    "This story will grab you"; "The movie seized my imagination"

Wiktionary

  1. grabnoun

    a sudden snatch (for something)

  2. grabnoun

    a mechanical device that grabs

  3. grabverb

    to make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something)

  4. grabverb

    to restrain someone; to arrest

  5. grabverb

    to grip the attention; to enthrall

  6. grabverb

    to quickly collect or retrieve

  7. grabverb

    to eat something quickly

    We'll just grab a sandwich and then we'll be on our way.

  8. Etymology: From grabben, from grab-, from gherebh (compare Sanskrit,).

Wikipedia

  1. grab

    Galactic Radiation and Background (GRAB) was the first successful United States orbital surveillance program, comprising a series of five Naval Research Laboratory electronic surveillance and solar astronomy satellites, launched from 1960 to 1962. Though only two of the five satellites made it into orbit, they returned a wealth of information on Soviet air defense radar capabilities as well as useful astronomical observations of the Sun.

ChatGPT

  1. grab

    Grab is a verb that refers to the act of taking hold of or seizing something or someone quickly and forcefully, often with the intention of moving or obtaining it. It commonly implies an abrupt and urgent action done in a swift and decisive manner.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Grabnoun

    a vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts

  2. Grab

    to gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch

  3. Grabnoun

    a sudden grasp or seizure

  4. Grabnoun

    an instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them; -- specially applied to devices for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven

  5. Etymology: [Ar. & Hind. ghurb crow, raven, a kind of Arab ship.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Grab

    grab, n. a vessel on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.

  2. Grab

    grab, v.t. (coll.) to seize or grasp suddenly: to lay hands on:—pr.p. grab′bing; pa.p. grabbed.—n. a sudden grasp or catch, acquisition by violent or unjust means: that which is seized: a simple card game.—ns. Grab′-bag, a bag containing a variety of articles to be obtained by putting in the hand and seizing one, as at charity bazaars, &c.: any dishonest means of seizing such profit or spoil as comes handiest; Grab′ber. [Scand.; Sw. grabba, to grasp; Ger. greifen, to seize.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. grab

    The large coasting vessel of India, generally with two masts, and of 150 to 300 tons.--To grab. In familiar language, to catch or snatch at anything with violence.

Suggested Resources

  1. GRAB

    What does GRAB stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the GRAB acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. GRAB

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Grab is ranked #26143 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Grab surname appeared 936 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Grab.

    95.8% or 897 total occurrences were White.
    2.8% or 27 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.6% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.5% or 5 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'grab' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4571

  2. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'grab' in Verbs Frequency: #583

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of grab in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of grab in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of grab in a Sentence

  1. John Kerry:

    This is a very blatant land grab and it is in direct contravention to the Minsk Agreement that they signed up to.

  2. Kenny Leitch:

    You can see them trying to grab control, they do not want insurers taking control.

  3. Nenegale Diallo:

    But Nash locked the door again and hit her with a chair during one point in the struggle, DNAInfo reported. Police told the website that Nenegale’s sister helped pull Nash off of her and she was able to grab her phone in the struggle, calling her husband, who took around 20 minutes to return home. I took my phone and see my husband's number first. I pressed the number. I made a loud noise, screaming,' Please, help me ! Help me ! Call the police !' then Nenegale Diallo slapped me again. The phone is falling, but I was making noise so my husband could hear the noise. Nash tried to flee the scene, Nenegale Diallo said, but then was attacked by Nenegale Diallo, police said. Nash later died at a hospital. Defense attorney Anthony Michaels said in court this was an attack on Diallo's family in Nenegale Diallo home. Nenegale Diallo had been arrested once before, but records on the case were sealed, police told DNAInfo. Nenegale Diallo's Nenegale Diallo. Nenegale Diallo's been in this country 27 years and never had a problem.

  4. Martin Reynolds:

    This seems like it's an organized smash and grab robbery. This doesn't seem like looting. We're thinking of scenarios where first responders are completely overwhelmed, and folks often may be on their own.

  5. Joanna McClinton:

    One glance at the way our maps look you'll see that the way they're done and the types of splits you have between counties, between townships, between school districts, between populations of communities of color – it's done in a way that's gerrymandered and it has favored a Republican majority, when we see a reset opportunity it is simply for a fairer map. It's not some sort of grab … we just want fairer lines.

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