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grasp
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)
- To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
- To understand.
- I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity.
- 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)
- (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.
- 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.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 13:
- That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.
Translations
Anagrams
- ARPGs, sprag
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mastery
English
Etymology
From Old French maistrie.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?mæst??i/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m??st(?)?i/
Noun
mastery (usually uncountable, plural masteries)
- The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
- c. 1610, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Misery of Invasive War
- If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.
- c. 1610, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Misery of Invasive War
- Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
- The voice of them that shout for mastery.
- Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.
- 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
- O, but to ha' gulled him / Had been a mastery.
- (obsolete) Contest for superiority.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
- (obsolete) A masterly operation; a feat.
- I wol doon a maistrie 'er I go.
- (obsolete) The philosopher's stone.
- The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- He […] could attain to a mastery in all languages.
- The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
Related terms
- master
Translations
Anagrams
- streamy
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