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entwine
English
Alternative forms
- (archaic) intwine
Etymology
From en- +? twine (verb).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?twa?n/
- (General American) enPR: ?n-tw?n?, IPA(key): /??n?twa?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
- Hyphenation: en?twine
Verb
entwine (third-person singular simple present entwines, present participle entwining, simple past and past participle entwined)
- To twist or twine around something (or one another).
Usage notes
Particularly used in attributive form entwined.
Often used interchangeably with intertwine, with minor usage distinctions. In symmetric sense of two things twining around each other, such as the branches of two trees, narrower intertwine may be preferred, but these are not strictly distinguished. In asymmetric sense of one thing twined in or around another – rather than mutually – such as a vine twined around a tree (but tree not twined around the vine), entwined is preferred.
Synonyms
- (twine around one another): intertwine
Derived terms
- entwinement (noun)
- entwining (noun)
- entwining (adj)
Translations
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grip
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: gr?p, IPA(key): /???p/
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
From Middle English grippen, from Old English grippan, from a Proto-Germanic *gripjan? (compare Old High German gripfen); compare the related Old English gr?pan, whence English gripe. See also grope, and the related Proto-Germanic *gr?pan?.
Verb
grip (third-person singular simple present grips, present participle gripping, simple past and past participle gripped)
- (transitive) To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
- (transitive) To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- By and by fumes of brandy began to fill the air, and climb to where I lay, overcoming the mouldy smell of decayed wood and the dampness of the green walls. It may have been that these fumes mounted to my head, and gave me courage not my own, but so it was that I lost something of the stifling fear that had gripped me, and could listen with more ease to what was going forward
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- (intransitive) To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
- To trench; to drain.
Synonyms
- (take hold of): clasp, grasp; See also Thesaurus:grasp
- (help or assist): aid, help out, lend a hand; See also Thesaurus:help
- (do something happy with another): hang out
- (trench):
Derived terms
- begrip
- gripping
Translations
Etymology 2
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).
Noun
grip (countable and uncountable, plural grips)
- A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
- A handle or other place to grip.
- (computing, graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
- (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
- A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
- (chiefly Southern California slang) A lot of something.
- (chiefly Southern California slang) A long time.
- Archaic spelling of grippe: Influenza, flu.
- 1911, Theodore Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt, Chapter XXXII:
- It so happened that, during a stretch of inclement weather in the fall, Lester was seized with a mild form of grip. When he felt the first symptoms he thought that his indisposition would be a matter of short duration, and tried to overcome it by taking a hot bath and a liberal dose of quinine. But the infection was stronger than he counted on; by morning he was flat on his back, with a severe fever and a splitting headache.
- 1911, Theodore Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt, Chapter XXXII:
- (archaic) A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
- An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
- Assistance; help or encouragement. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
- (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
- (figuratively) A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
- A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
See also
- (a lot of) hella, hecka
Related terms
- come to grips
- get to grips with
- key grip
- get a grip
- gripper
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English grip, grippe, gryppe (“a ditch, drain”), from Old English gr?p (“a furrow, burrow”) and gr?pe (“a furrow, ditch, drain”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?piz (“a furrow, groove”). Cognate with Middle Dutch grippe, gruppe (“ditch, drain”), greppe, German Low German Gruppe (“ditch, drain”). Related also to Old English gr?p (“a ditch, drain”). More at groop.
Alternative forms
- gripe
Noun
grip (plural grips)
- (dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
Derived terms
- gripple
Etymology 4
From Middle English gripe, from Old French gripe, from Latin grypus, gryphus.
Noun
grip (plural grips)
- (obsolete) The griffin.
Anagrams
- IGRP, PIRG, prig
Albanian
Etymology
Probably a modern loanword, from German Grippe.
Noun
grip m
- flu, influenza
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from French grippe, from Frankish *gr?pan (“to seize”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?pan?.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /???ip/
Noun
grip f (plural grips)
- flu (influenza)
Further reading
- “grip” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “grip” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “grip” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “grip” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English grip.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r?p/
Noun
grip m (plural grippen, diminutive gripje n)
- hold (to ensure control)
Related terms
- greep
- griep
- grijpen
- begrip
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French grippe (“influenza”).
Noun
grip
- influenza, flu
Icelandic
Noun
grip
- inflection of gripur:
- indefinite accusative singular
- indefinite dative singular
Ladino
Etymology
Borrowed from French grippe (“influenza”).
Noun
grip f (Latin spelling)
- (medicine) influenza, flu
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French gripe.
Noun
grip
- Alternative form of gripe (“griffin”)
Etymology 2
From Old English gr?p.
Noun
grip
- Alternative form of grippe
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
grip
- imperative of gripe
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
grip
- present tense of gripa and gripe
- imperative of gripa and gripe
Romansch
Noun
grip m (plural grips)
- rock
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ri?p/
- Rhymes: -i?p
Noun
grip c
- griffin
Declension
Verb
grip
- imperative of gripa.
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from French grippe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ip/
Noun
grip (definite accusative gripi, plural gripler)
- (pathology) flu, influenza, grippe
Yola
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
grip (plural gripès)
- stitch
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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