different between pinch vs grip

English

Etymology

From Middle English pinchen, from Old French *pinchier, pincer (“to pinch”), from Vulgar Latin *pinci?re (“to puncture, pinch”), from possible merger of *puncti?re (“a puncture, sting”), from Latin puncti? (“a puncture, prick”) and *picc?re (“to strike, sting”), from Frankish *pikk?n, from Proto-Germanic *pikk?n? (“to pick, peck, prick”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Verb

pinch (third-person singular simple present pinches, present participle pinching, simple past and past participle pinched)

1. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

   The children were scolded for pinching each other.

   This shoe pinches my foot.

2. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
3. To squeeze between two objects.
4. (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.

   Someone has pinched my handkerchief!
5. (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
6. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
7. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
8. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
9. (obsolete, intransitive) To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Gower to this entry?)

   • 1788, Benjamin Franklin (attributed), Paper

     the wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare

10. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
11. (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.

    to be pinched for money

    • c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War

      want of room […] which pincheth the whole nation

    • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:

      The Christian also spurns the pinched and mumping sick-room attitude, and the lives of saints are full of a kind of callousness to diseased conditions of body which probably no other human records show.

12. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
13. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
    • 1809, Alexander Chalmers ed. The Works of the English Poets, from Cahucer to Cowper, Vol. 1, modern rendering of poem imputed to Geoffrey Chaucer, "A Ballad which Chaucer made in Praise or rather Dispraise of Women for their Doubleness":

      Therefore who so them accuse

      Of any double entencion,

      To speake, rowne, other to muse,

      To pinch at their condicion,

      All is but false collusion,

      I dare rightwell the sothe express,

      They have no better protection,

      But shrowd them vnder doubleness.

Derived terms

• pinch off
• pinch out
• pinch a loaf

Translations

Noun

pinch (plural pinches)

1. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
2. A close compression of anything with the fingers.

   I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.

3. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
4. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
   • 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 171:

     It took nerve and muscle both to carry the body out and down the stairs to the lower hall, but he damn well had to get it out of his place and away from his door, and any of those four could have done it in a pinch, and it sure was a pinch.

5. A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
6. An organic herbal smoke additive.
7. (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
8. The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
   • 2001, Terry Pratchett: Thief of Time:

     It looked like an hourglass, but all those little glittering shapes tumbling through the pinch were seconds.

9. (slang) An arrest.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (pinchi)

Translations

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)

1. (transitive) To take hold of, particularly with the hand.

2. (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

3. (intransitive) To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.

4. 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)

1. A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.

2. A handle or other place to grip.

3. (computing, graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
4. (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
5. A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
6. (chiefly Southern California slang) A lot of something.

7. (chiefly Southern California slang) A long time.

8. 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.

9. (archaic) A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
10. An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
11. Assistance; help or encouragement. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

12. A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.

13. (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.

14. (figuratively) A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.

15. 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)

1. (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)

1. (obsolete) The griffin.

Anagrams

• IGRP, PIRG, prig

Albanian

Etymology

Probably a modern loanword, from German Grippe.

Noun

grip m

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. hold (to ensure control)

Related terms

• greep
• griep
• grijpen
• begrip

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French grippe (“influenza”).

Noun

grip

1. influenza, flu

Icelandic

Noun

grip

1. inflection of gripur:
   1. indefinite accusative singular
   2. indefinite dative singular

Ladino

Etymology

Borrowed from French grippe (“influenza”).

Noun

grip f (Latin spelling)

1. (medicine) influenza, flu

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French gripe.

Noun

grip

1. Alternative form of gripe (“griffin”)

Etymology 2

From Old English gr?p.

Noun

grip

1. Alternative form of grippe

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

grip

1. imperative of gripe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

grip

1. present tense of gripa and gripe
2. imperative of gripa and gripe

Romansch

Noun

grip m (plural grips)

1. rock

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ri?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Noun

grip c

1. griffin

Declension

Verb

grip

1. imperative of gripa.

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French grippe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ip/

Noun

grip (definite accusative gripi, plural gripler)

1. (pathology) flu, influenza, grippe

Yola

Etymology

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Noun

grip (plural gripès)

1. 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