(n.) A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.
(v. t. & i.) To gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch.
(n.) A sudden grasp or seizure.
(n.) An instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them; -- specially applied to devices for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the couple's 30-year marriage she had twice reported him to the police for grabbing her by the throat, before they divorced in 2005.
(2) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
(3) Montreal also took advantage of the power play, as Tomas Vanek (again, another necessary scorer) grabbed one with the man advantage near the end of the second period to make it 3-0.
(4) Van Gaal argued that Huth had grabbed Fellaini’s considerable hair and claimed it ought to have been a penalty but the Football Association’s disciplinary department will surely take action.
(5) In a trailer shown Sunday for an upcoming documentary on state-run Rossiya-1 television called “Homeward bound”, Putin openly discusses Moscow’s controversial grabbing of Crimea a year ago.
(6) And also fear of the police because they weren't there and thinking any minute they could just run through and grab or hit anyone.
(7) One little boy grabbed me and pleaded with me, that the Jungle was not a good place, and he didn’t want to be there.” Last month, protesters staged a die-in at St Pancras station in London against plans to clear the area of the Jungle.
(8) The "fly on the wall" stuff is no more for the moment but, Andy, grab the opportunities when you can – a few years down the line when Cameron is on the lecture circuit and the rest of us are hanging up our cameras for good, you should have an unprecedented photographic record of a seat of power.
(9) Egypt • Morsi is due to meet senior judges to try to reach a compromise over the decree, viewed by many as a power grab.
(10) At that point I was grabbed by the Belgian secret service and slammed against the glass.
(11) I think the heart of good comedy really lives in truth and reacting to the absurdities, hypocrisies, abuses of power in the world.” Late night television is a no longer a glass of warm milk before bed, it’s a lunch buffet And as TV viewership declines and internet virality becomes as important as real-time eyeballs, cable networks might find that topical comedy is a smart, cost-effective way to grab cross-platform attention.
(12) Another officer grabbing Mann by the collar and threatening his family – to arrest his wife’s “black ass” and ensure he would not see his young son grow up, Mann recalled in an interview – if he did not snitch on a heroin dealer.
(13) Latino Review has a track record of attention-grabbing scoops, though its accuracy has occasionally been called into question.
(14) He is the embodiment of the belief that money and power provide a licence to impose one’s will on others, whether that entitlement is expressed by grabbing women or grabbing the finite resources from a planet on the verge of catastrophic warming.
(15) Then King grabbed the podium and set his prepared text to his left.
(16) "At lunchtime, he would grab food from other children's plates and eat it, and that was a cause of concern for the school staff."
(17) The bomb threat tweet was sent to Freeman, the Europe editor of Time magazine, Catherine Mayer, and the Independent columnist Grace Dent, who took a screen grab of the tweet and posted it for her Twitter followers to see .
(18) Who knows, maybe it's not the worst thing in the world for the Eastern Conference to be completely up for grabs.
(19) A waiter grabbed a table cloth to use as a stretcher, but a photographer took the boy in his arms to carry him to the ambulance.
(20) As night fell, one teenager, Alex, who had slipped out of an independent school (she refused to say which one) was heading home, pausing only grab a flier advertising a "Snow Rave" for 16-18-year-olds.
Graf
Definition:
(n.) A German title of nobility, equivalent to earl in English, or count in French. See Earl.
Example Sentences:
(1) "You do not make PSB stronger by weakening the BBC," said Graf.
(2) Ultimately, Graf says, the question of what will happen to the 11 million or so undocumented workers still in the country will resolve itself.
(3) The quote was taken from a 19th-century German field marshal, Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke: “No operation extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main body of the enemy.” In terms of Brexit negotiations, it means that there is no way of knowing in advance how things are going to turn out when article 50 is triggered.
(4) The v-myb oncogene of the acute avian leukemia virus E26 encodes a transcription factor that directly regulates the promyelocyte-specific mim-1 gene (Ness, S.A., Marknell, A. and Graf, T. Cell, 59, 1115-1125).
(5) If she does complete a sweep of all four majors, she joins Graf on 22 slam titles, the most of the modern era, and just two behind Margaret Court’s all-time record.
(6) Sonography was employed to evaluate the accuracy of congenital hip dysplasia in 1014 cases, using Graf's methodology and classification in neonatal and infant age.
(7) Graf said that the idea of partnerships - such as technology sharing and bolstering regional and local news by other broadcasters - raised the question of when "amiable cooperation becomes anti-competitive cartel".
(8) The accuracy of our anterior method of sonography in diagnosing congenital dislocation of the hip compared well with the method of Graf and with radiography.
(9) He performed the examinations and evaluated the sonograms using the method provided by Graf.
(10) Perhaps the most radical of Graf's proposals was his call for open primaries, meaning that Labour's candidate would be selected by the area's population as a whole, rather than just its members.
(11) According to Graf, Miliband was engaged with all of these suggestions, but massive obstacles remain.
(12) All US examinations were performed within the first week of life and the 2842 hips classified according to Graf.
(13) In contrast to conventional hip sonography, the use of a sector transducer is meaningful with this method, since the drawbacks of the sector transducer stated by Graf, do not apply.
(14) Having used the methods of Graf and Harcke, they devised a new scan which always reveals the state of the limbus in neonatal congenital dysplasia.
(15) Democrats believe having Graf as their opponent will make it easier for them to win back the constituency.
(16) Greek debt crisis: Tsipras urges MPs to back bailout plan - live Read more Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, vice-president of the European parliament and a member of Germany’s liberal FDP, said he believed there were notable omissions in the Greek submission.
(17) 1.01pm GMT Speed skating We’re down to the last three pairs, with Olga Graf still leading.
(18) The procedure is outlined and results of screening examinations of 2,000 newborn hips according to the classification of Graf are presented.
(19) Apart from the standard examination in the frontal plane after Graf they examined on principle also the ultrasonographic stability by the dynamic test after Schuler as well as by the application of the probe anteriorly with the simultaneous provocation according to Palmén.
(20) Graf's technique, besides being at present the only reproducible one, represents a method common to all radiologist which allows hip measuring and staging.