different between grasp vs begrip

English

Etymology

From Middle English graspen, grapsen, craspen (“to grope; feel around”), from Old English gr?psan (“to touch, feel”), from Proto-Germanic *graipis?n?. Cognate with German Low German grapsen (“to grab; grasp”), Saterland Frisian Grapse (“double handful”). Compare also Swedish krafsa (“to scatch; scabble”), Norwegian krafse (“to scramble”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????sp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??æsp/
• Rhymes: -æsp

Verb

grasp (third-person singular simple present grasps, present participle grasping, simple past and past participle grasped)

1. To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
3. To understand.

   I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity.

4. To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance.

Synonyms

• (grip): clasp, grip, hold tight; See also Thesaurus:grasp
• (understand): comprehend, fathom
• (take advantage): jump at the chance, jump on

Derived terms

• begrasp
• foregrasp
• grasp the nettle

Related terms

Translations

Noun

grasp (plural grasps)

1. (sometimes figuratively) Grip.

   • Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
3. Understanding.
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 13:

     There is for the mind but one grasp of happiness: from that uppermost pinnacle of wisdom, whence we see that this world is well designed.

4. That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.

Translations

Anagrams

• ARPGs, sprag

English

Etymology

From be- +? grip. Compare begripe.

Verb

begrip (third-person singular simple present begrips, present participle begripping, simple past and past participle begripped)

1. (transitive) To grip around or about; get a grip on; grasp.
   • 1911, William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris:

     Then the girdled hilt seiz'd he, the Wolf of the Scyldings, The rough and the sword-grim, and drew forth the ring-sword, Naught weening of life, and wrathful he smote then So that there on her halse the hard edge begripped, [...]

   • 1913, Archibald Allan, Space and personality:

     They try to begrip by conceptions that which no conception can grasp save when conception is full-open with consciousness, and identical with it.

   • 1913, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The smart set: a magazine of cleverness:

     Then parted Frowin and Garnum, and, hands begripped, they solemnly repeated the foster-brother oath: "Thy kin will I protect; thy honor will I guard. Parted or together, when thou diest then will I die also: [...]

   • 2002, Christine Chism, Alliterative Revivals:

     A blissful/blessed body, arrayed in a rich manner in royal garments: all with glistening gold his gown was hemmed, with many a precious pearl placed thereon, and a girdle of gold begripped his waist; a great mantle was over that, [...]

   • 2012, Wilyem Clark, Steadfast:

     He came to be known as Peritus because he seemed expert at every task he begripped him.

Synonyms

• clasp, clutch, grasp; See also Thesaurus:grasp

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch begrip, from Middle Dutch begrip, from Old Dutch *bigrip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???r?p/

Noun

begrip (plural begrippe)

1. notion, concept, term
2. understanding, comprehension
3. understanding, empathy

Derived terms

• begripsraamwerk

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch begrip, from Old Dutch *bigrip. Formed based on begrijpen from the original nominative form of greep.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???r?p/
• Hyphenation: be?grip
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

begrip n (plural begrippen, diminutive begripje n)

1. understanding, comprehension

   Synonym: onbegrip

2. understanding, empathy

3. notion, concept, term

4. institution (well-known entity)

Derived terms

• begrippenkader

Related terms

• begrijpelijk
• begrijpen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: begrip

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

begrip

1. imperative of begripe

Swedish

Verb

begrip

1. imperative of begripa.