What's the difference between grab and nab?

Grab


Definition:

  • (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.

Nab


Definition:

  • (n.) The summit of an eminence.
  • (n.) The cock of a gunlock.
  • (n.) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.
  • (v. t.) To catch or seize suddenly or unexpectedly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The illumination of the F1-ATPase complexes with NAB-ADP or NAB-GDP leads to the covalent binding of one nucleotide analogue molecule to the enzyme and to the irreversible inactivation of F1-ATPase.
  • (2) The frequency of antigen-reactive NAbs was about half the frequency of antigen-reactive antibodies found among the BlAbs.
  • (3) To answer this, we measured the effect of the differentiation inducer sodium butyrate (NaB, 1 mM) on proliferation, insulin content, secretion and biosynthesis, and the expression of A2B5 and 3G5 gangliosides by the sublines.
  • (4) Spindle pole bodies, arising by duplication of the NAB at the beginning of mitosis, are unstructured foci for spindle microtubules in mitotic cells.
  • (5) Forty-six of 63 aspirates from malignant tumors were correctly diagnosed by NAB, establishing a sensitivity at 73%.
  • (6) 38% of the administered radioactivity represent unchanged NAB 365 in the urine, whereas there are 45% in the plasma.
  • (7) Fifty-nine neonates with herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection were evaluated with use of assays for neutralizing antibody (NAb), lymphocyte transformation (LT), alpha interferon production, and virus-specific antibody (immunoblots).
  • (8) By day 2, AlGh, m5F, A12, A13 and AhGh cells exposed to NaB contained 1.5-, 1.4-, 1.4-, 1.2- and 1.0-fold higher amounts of insulin, respectively, and by day 6, 3.6-, 2.3- and 1.0-fold higher, and 1.2- and 2.4-fold lower, amounts of insulin, respectively, than control cells.
  • (9) Although their frequency was higher, tumors initiated during the period of LPS-induced NR abrogation exhibited greater reductions in NAb binding and sensitivity to NR than tumors from control mice.
  • (10) NaB, in contrast, produced considerable biochemical and morphologic differentiation along the enterocyte maturation pathway.
  • (11) Seven days after lesioning the NAB, sham operated controls and NAB-X lesioned animals were divided into 4 groups and submitted to 4 different stressors, i.e.
  • (12) These data suggest that treatment of some malignancies with combinations of RA with HMBA or NaB may maintain differentiation-inducing effects and decrease the problems associated with the achievement and maintenance of effective plasma concentrations as single agents.
  • (13) The effectiveness of alpha-mercapto-beta-(2-furyl)acrylic acid (MFA) and N-benzyl-N-dithiocarboxy-D-glucamine (NaB), used in combination, in the mobilization and excretion of lead was investigated in rats.
  • (14) The effect of sodium butyrate (NaB) alone and in combination with a glucocorticoid was studied on Y-79 retinoblastoma cells both in vitro and in vivo.
  • (15) In the presence of daunorubicin or N-substituted daunorubicin analogues, 3H-NAB-daunorubicin photolabeling of the 18.3-kDa polypeptide was inhibited.
  • (16) NAB II cells showed morphological alterations characteristic of herpes infection.
  • (17) The capital raising will see NAB issue 194 million new shares, which is around 8% of its issued capital, at $28.50 each.
  • (18) During the 24-month observation period 2 of 80 (3%) HIV-1(+) NAb(+) individuals progressed to AIDS and died, as compared to 5 of 21 (24%) of HIV-1(+) NAb(-) subjects who progressed to AIDS.
  • (19) Sodium butyrate (NaB), a 4-carbon fatty acid, has been reported to activate the metallothionein (MT) gene in certain carcinoma cell lines.
  • (20) Flat revertants of v-ras-transformed (KNRK) rat kidney cells, which express elevated levels of p21ras protein, were generated to high efficiencies with sodium butyrate (NaB).

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