English Explanatory Dictionary

grip

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To take hold (of), particularly with the hand.
  2. To figuratively take hold of or grasp.
  3. Of an emotion or situation: to have a strong effect upon.
  4. To firmly hold the attention of.
noun
  1. A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
  2. Ability to resist slippage when pressed in contact with another object or surface.
  3. A place to grip; a handle; the portion of a handle that the hand occupies.
  4. Ellipsis of pistol grip.
  5. A device, or a portion of one, that grasps or holds fast to something.
  6. An apparatus attached to a car (e.g., cable car, funicular car, mine car) for clutching a traction cable.
  7. Control, power, or mastery over someone or something; a tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
  8. Mental grasp.
  9. A medium-sized bag or holdall for one's belongings, made of soft leather, canvas etc., and carried in the hand by two handles, one either side of the opening.
  10. A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved by dragging with a mouse or finger.
  11. A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
  12. As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
noun
  1. A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
  2. A channel cut through a grass verge, especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway.
verb
  1. To trench; to drain.

Pronunciation

grĭp /ɡɹɪp/ en-us-grip.ogg

Word forms

grip grips gripping gripped gripe

Etymology

Verb from Middle English grippen, from Old English grippan, from a Proto-Germanic *gripjaną (compare Old High German gripfen); compare the related Old English grīpan, whence English gripe. See also grope, and the related Proto-Germanic *grīpaną. Noun from Middle English grippe, gripe, an amalgam of Old English gripe (“grasp, hold”) (cognate with German Griff) and Old English gripa (“handful”) (cognate with Swedish grepp).

Synonyms

grasp clasp handgrip

Related words

hecka hella

Derived words

begrip grip off grip oneself with both hands grippable gripping gripping beast grippy gription grip up on the gripping hand regrip ungrip misgrip Biddle grip bow grip bugger's grip come to grips death grip deck grip devil's grip dolly grip false grip floorgrip foregrip French grip gaffer grip gangsta grip get a grip get to grips with girl grip grip-and-grin grip car grip-car grip grain gripless grip-lit gripman grip panel gripper grippie grip tape grip wax hair-grip hair grip hairgrip handgrip in the grip of Italian grip key grip kirby grip matched grip mechanic's grip mixed grip multi-grip bar neutral grip neutral grip bar overgrip passgrip pass grip pistol grip

Translations

Arabic: مَقْبِض Armenian: բռնակ Armenian: կոթ Bulgarian: дръжка Bulgarian: ръкохватка Chinese Mandarin: 柄 Czech: rukojeť Czech: držadlo Danish: greb Dutch: handvat Esperanto: tenilo Finnish: kahva Finnish: ote French: poignée German: Griff Central Kurdish: دەسک Latin: ampla Macedonian: рачка Māori: puringa Mongolian: бариул Plautdietsch: Jräp Portuguese: agarra Russian: ру́чка Russian: рукоя́тка Spanish: empuñadura Swedish: grepp Tamil: கைப்பிடி
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