What's the difference between gasping and grasp?

Gasping


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gasp

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These included shifts in gasping rhythm and refractory periods for eliciting gasps; the latter varied inversely with spontaneous gasping frequency.
  • (2) Stimulation of the carotid body chemoreceptors with cyanide in anaesthetized rabbits usually causes a deep breath or gasp, but only if the vagus nerves are intact.
  • (3) The 30-year-old, whose airway had been so damaged by TB she was gasping for breath on the stairs, told Professor Paolo Macchiarini she had been dancing all night in a club in Ibiza.
  • (4) Three of the 12 cats developed a breathing pattern that began as a normal breath and terminated in a gasp.
  • (5) However, the match would end 2-2 thanks to a last-gasp Leonardo Ulloa penalty awarded after Jeffrey Schlupp went down under pressure from Carroll – something which infuriated the Hammers striker.
  • (6) This was the second most popular multichannel show on Saturday, behind Sky Sports 1's live coverage of Manchester United's last gasp 1-0 Premier League win over Manchester City.
  • (7) The stage of hyperventilation was followed by apnea initially interrupted by primary gasps and by bradycardia and drop in systemic blood pressure.
  • (8) The fans in the mostly full stands, knowing they had seen something completely new in a completely new Olympic sport, let out a huge gasp.
  • (9) In foetal lambs (from 0.66 of term) in which observations were made for many days after chronic implantation of tracheal, carotid and amniotic catheters, rapid irregular respiratory movements were present up to 40% of the time, and brief gasps also were seen.3.
  • (10) An early prediction score (EPS) is constructed as the sum of five events: the type of cardiac arrest is ventricular fibrillation; the type of respiratory arrest is gasping; pupil reaction is unequal, slow or normal, but present; swallowing activity is present and the cardiac arrest has been witnessed.
  • (11) Our data are consistent with the lateral tegmental field of medulla comprising a central pattern generator for gasping and pacemaker elements being a component of this pattern generator.
  • (12) Without a last-gasp breakthrough – of which there is no sign – Greece will be unable to make those payments.
  • (13) He "be"s so intensely that I had to rush out, gasping for breath, back to the exhibits of canvas and paper.
  • (14) However, I haven't forgotten gasping for a cigarette and being unable to have one – that vicious clawing from my chest to my throat, the jangling of nerves and shortening of temper.
  • (15) Within minutes he had embarrassed Gaël Clichy with his pace across the grass, the full-back left gasping in his vapour trail, before squaring for André Schürrle to tap in a first Chelsea goal.
  • (16) The Super Eagles pushed France hard in their last-16 match in Brasilia only for Paul Pogba's late header and a last-gasp own-goal by Yobo to seal a 2-0 win for Les Bleus .
  • (17) Boyd Hilton, TV and reviews editor of Heat magazine So the BBC is getting rid of its one channel aimed at young people , its one channel that has continually fostered new comedy talent, the channel with the most diverse audience, the channel with the most diverse programmes, the channel where – gasp – even working-class people are seen and heard on a regular basis.
  • (18) Shortly afterwards came a costly miss featuring Clucas heading marginally wide, which set the scene for Campbell’s connection with Zaha’s last-gasp cross.
  • (19) He has also urged Mario Balotelli, who created the last-gasp, championship-clinching winner against Queens Park Rangers on Sunday, and Edin Dzeko, the scorer of the equaliser, to stay at City.
  • (20) Some laughed at the comments but as the attacks from the stage continued, there were gasps and some voices could be heard expressing disbelief.

Grasp


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.
  • (v. t.) To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with; to comprehend.
  • (v. i.) To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive.
  • (n.) A gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms.
  • (n.) Reach of the arms; hence, the power of seizing and holding; as, it was beyond his grasp.
  • (n.) Forcible possession; hold.
  • (n.) Wide-reaching power of intellect to comprehend subjects and hold them under survey.
  • (n.) The handle of a sword or of an oar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A tendency of reduced forepaw grasping ability was seen in lead-treated rats during the end of the lead exposure.
  • (2) In the 18 month-old a more mature grasp and forearm combination, mainly palmar grasp with or without stablizing index finger + overpronated forearm, was found.
  • (3) And they have no intention of letting it out of their grasp.
  • (4) At the end of each session, he is forced to don a pair of blackened goggles, ear muffs are placed over his head, and he is ordered to place the palms of his hands together so that a guard can grasp his thumbs to lead him away.
  • (5) Results indicate substantial postoperative improvement in tip prehension and grasp, while performance remained essentially unchanged for lateral prehension, pinch force, and power grip.
  • (6) Lateral bias was measured for 4 behaviors: hand-to-mouth, hand-to-hand, defensive grasp, and first step.
  • (7) The pressure sore resulted from the commonly practised habit of grasping the upright of the wheel chair with the upper arm in order to gain stability.
  • (8) Britain is still sending regular reinforcements across the Atlantic, from the new Spider-Man signing ( Tom Holland from Surrey ), to the actors who have recently snatched real-life national archetypes like Abraham Lincoln ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo ) from the grasp of American stars.
  • (9) There is a developmental sequence of pencil grasp, and useful development scales in copying cube models, drawing geometric shapes, and the draw-a-man test.
  • (10) Basilar dendrites show significantly larger numbers (p less than .05) of branching for motor I cortex under condition 3 associated with the greatest skills and amount of activity in climbing, swinging, and grasping of objects.
  • (11) "Although she was always a steadfast critic of apartheid, she had a much better grasp of the complexities and geostrategic realities of South Africa than many of her contemporaries," he said.
  • (12) What that mindset signally failed to grasp is that there is something called computer science – a discipline with fundamental concepts and principles, just like other sciences .
  • (13) Reading the extraordinary details in Michael Beloff’s independent ethics commission report and the second part of Dick Pound’s independent commission report, published on Thursday , it is becoming increasingly clear Diack and his two sons, plus his legal counsel Habib Cissé, were running an audacious shadow operation that grasped opportunity where ever it came.
  • (14) certain forms of the passive voice; the flexibility in changing between the parts of speech) made the verbal grasp of unconscious and preconscious phenomena easier for Freud, i.e.
  • (15) In the context of a deficit recovered against a team on the fringe of the Champions League places, and grasping for positives, it did at least offer flashes of the character the home support deemed to have been so absent of late.
  • (16) Ibotenate lesioned rats, despite having larger lesions than the quinolinate, showed no deficits in eating or drinking in the home cage, or reaching or grasping disabilities in the staircase test.
  • (17) If the party’s senior members cannot grasp this simple fact, then perhaps they ought to replace the word “Labour” in the party’s name – or cross the floor and join the Conservatives?
  • (18) To grasp the challenge of 2050, our report shows that public and private investments will need to be better focused towards a low carbon and circular economy.
  • (19) And many young people, including in the UK, do grasp the advantages.
  • (20) | Paul Mason Read more Donald Trump, for his part, couldn’t quite grasp the scale of Obama’s plan: “Our president wants to take in 250,000 from Syria.

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