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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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thought
English
Alternative forms
- thowt (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English thought, itho?t, from Old English þ?ht, ?eþ?ht, from Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz, *gaþanht? (“thought”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think”). Cognate with Scots thocht (“thought”), Saterland Frisian Toacht (“thought”), West Frisian dacht (“attention, regard, thought”), Dutch gedachte (“thought”), German Andacht (“reverence, devotion, prayer”), Icelandic þóttur (“thought”). Related to thank.
Pronunciation
- enPR: thôt
- (UK) IPA(key): /???t/
- Rhymes: -??t
- (US) IPA(key): /??t/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /??t/
- (Inland Northern American) IPA(key): /??t/
- Homophone: thot (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Noun
thought (countable and uncountable, plural thoughts)
- (countable) Form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking.
- (uncountable) The operation by which such forms arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.
- a. 1983', Paul Fix (attributed quote)
- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.
- a. 1983', Paul Fix (attributed quote)
- (uncountable) A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).
- (uncountable, now dialectal) Anxiety, distress.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
thought
- simple past tense and past participle of think
Middle English
Alternative forms
- thoughte, thougt, thouhte, thoute
- thogt, thohte, thogh
Etymology
From Old English þ?ht.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?o?xt/, /??u?xt/
Noun
thought (plural thoughtes)
- product of mental activity
Descendants
- English: thought
- Scots: thocht
- Yola: thaugkt
References
- “thought, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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