(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.
Swipe
Definition:
(n.) A swape or sweep. See Sweep.
(n.) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
(n.) Poor, weak beer; small beer.
(v. t.) To give a swipe to; to strike forcibly with a sweeping motion, as a ball.
(v. t.) To pluck; to snatch; to steal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
(2) They released a song on (the now banned) YouTube, called Alu Anday (Potatoes and Eggs) taking a swipe at the military as well as sectarian killers.
(3) He has just performed a skit now about his bicycle scheme, which included a swipe at the French (because their scheme resulted in many more cycles being pinched, apparently.)
(4) Text is said to appear sharper, while a "control centre" on the phone allows users to adjust settings with just one swipe from the bottom of the screen.
(5) In a swipe at Corbyn, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, addressing the meeting, said: “Never forget, the best way to represent and deliver for working people will always be from the government benches.” After the meeting, the former Labour MP Lord Watts confronted Seumas Milne, Corbyn’s head of communications, and told him he was “a disgrace”.
(6) To check the Hub while in an app, you use your thumb to swipe the screen from left to right, and can "peek" at the Hub's inbox.
(7) Overlaying the image are a few brusque swipes across the canvas, a gauzy smear of thin white paint, as if something had passed between us and the painting.
(8) The slate was wiped clean “as far as I am concerned”, Corbyn added, before taking a swipe at the alleged purge of some of his supporters over comments made on Twitter.
(9) There are also problems with gestures such as swiping the screen because they're "inherently vague", and "lack discoverability": there's no way to tell what a gesture will do at any particular point.
(10) A furious Aitor Karanka tore into his Middlesbrough players and aimed a swipe at Boro supporters after squandering the opportunity to go top of the Championship table at Blackburn.
(11) The dour Zenawi could not resist a swipe at western pundits who had once written off Africa.
(12) The first real opening of the second half fell to Norwich, but Gary O’Neil swiped wildly at the ball.
(13) And oddly, ridiculously, he then swipes at the final ball, trying to take it from outside off round to leg, missing by plenty.
(14) She says he missed that "profit without purpose is a recipe for disaster" # MGEITF August 23, 2012 6.49pm BST Lisa O'Carroll has just tweeted: lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) Lis Murdoch: News Copr s a company that s currently asking itself some very significant and difficult questions # mgeitf August 23, 2012 and lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) A swipe at James?
(15) Swipe fully you are back in the Hub, but unfortunately the app you were in closes at that point.
(16) Although he took a swipe at Trump during a private fundraiser last week, Cruz has publicly showered him with praise and even voted against an amendment in the Senate judiciary committee that symbolically rejected Trump’s anti-Muslim proposal.
(17) There were 19m GP appointments last year, as well as 1m attendances at A&E, and 3m outpatient appointments “We’ve not robbed our social services departments to make it look like we have artificially inflated our health service budget”, he says, in a direct swipe at the Conservatives’ proud boast that they have successfully increased the NHS budget in England every year since 2010.
(18) Do you wish you could change the elements in the Control Center (which you reach by swiping up from the bottom) - so for example it would contain your favourite apps, not just the clock, torch, calculator and camera?
(19) Inside there's a chatty column about a dilemma that irritates all New Yorkers – how to swipe your Metro card at the turnstiles of the subway.
(20) A picture pops onto the screen, and you are immediately given the option to click yes or no, or even better you can swipe them to the left or right to get that heightened experience that you are whooshing unworthy candidates directly into the bin.