different between grasp vs grapefruit

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

Widely assumed to be a marketing term from grape +? fruit, an allusion to the supposed grapelike clusters of fruit on the tree, early 19th c. Ciardi proposes another theory: one of the pummelo's botanical names is Citrus grandis, meaning "great citrus [fruit]", due to the size of its fruit. A new pummelo variety might first have been called a "greatfruit", and through the process of dissimilation, the word came to be pronounced "grapefruit".

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???e?p.f?u?t/

  (as grape + fruit, with stress on grape)

Noun

grapefruit (plural grapefruits or grapefruit)

1. The tree of the species Citrus paradisi, a hybrid of pomelo (Citrus maxima) and sweet orange.
2. The large spherical tart fruit produced by this tree.

   Synonyms: pomelo, shaddock, forbidden fruit

Synonyms

• (tree): grapefruit tree; Citrus × paradisi; Citrus sinensis × Citrus grandis, Citrus sinensis × Citrus maxima

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• grapefruit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Citrus paradisi on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Citrus paradisi on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Grapefruits on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

References

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English grapefruit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??re?p.frut/
• Hyphenation: grape?fruit

Noun

grapefruit m (plural grapefruits, diminutive grapefruitje n)

1. grapefruit (tree of the species Citrus paradisi)
2. grapefruit (fruit produced by the tree of the species Citrus paradisi)

See also

• pompelmoes

French

Noun

grapefruit m (plural grapefruits)

1. (Switzerland) grapefruit

   Synonym: pamplemousse