What's the difference between grabber and seize?

Grabber


Definition:

  • (n.) One who seizes or grabs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A video camera, an NTSC compatible frame grabber board, and an AT personal computer are used to read photographic exposures of the assay plate.
  • (2) It wasn’t about money, though Jeremy Hunt portrayed us as money-grabbers by constantly stressing that we’d be getting a pay rise.
  • (3) It should be up there with the headline-grabbers: jobs, immigration, education and the NHS.
  • (4) These systems might include additional lap-shoulder belt technologies, such as pretensioners, webbing locks or grabbers, load limiters, and adjustable anchors, as well as belt supplements, such as air bags and energy-absorbing interiors.
  • (5) It's also very entertaining, maybe funnier than before, and I don't believe the fact that thrusting money-grabbers aren't exactly flavour of the month will do anything to lessen its popularity.
  • (6) Let's start with Walker's headline-grabber – the demand that banks reveal how many of their high flyers earn more than the average boardroom director.
  • (7) Those of us in the UK are thankful that we don’t live in the land of the pussy grabber-in-chief, but in the land of his handmaiden.
  • (8) The militia are the land grabbers, because they want to privatize it and cut off universal appreciation Sue Kovar, a 64-year-old Burns resident Most residents have expressed outrage over the Hammonds’ prison sentence and gratitude that the world finally seemed to be paying attention to the plight of local ranchers.
  • (9) Bill Gross of bond manager Pimco, in yesterday's headline-grabber about UK gilts "resting on a bed of nitroglycerine," cited the widely held idea that once a country's public debt exceeds 90% of GDP its economic growth slows by 1%.
  • (10) Device embolization to a pulmonary artery occurred in six patients; two of these devices were retrieved by grabber catheter and four at operation, all without adverse sequelae; there were two other technical failures.
  • (11) We have developed an image storage and retrieval system that makes use of a Super-VHS video tape recorder, and a personal computer fitted with an interface board and a video frame grabber.
  • (12) It is the result of a perverse system that financially rewards those who clearfell, from land grabbers and illegal loggers to agribusiness.
  • (13) In its most recent attention-grabber, Peta organisers dressed up in white robes and caps , in a reference to the KKK, as they handed out flyers to protest the start of the Westminster Kennel Club Show .
  • (14) The joint's data are captured by a frame grabber-board installed in a personal computer after takeover from the X-rays by a video camera.
  • (15) A PC-mounted frame grabber captures images at the TV frame rate to form a three-dimensional (3-D) array of pixels.
  • (16) This commercially available system is comprised of a microcomputer, frame grabber, CCD camera with zoom lens, and a high-resolution thermal printer.
  • (17) Mervyn King's vision of the "sober" decade in prospect for Britain was designed to be the headline-grabber.
  • (18) A commercially available video "frame grabber" is used in conjunction with a standard microcomputer for image acquisition.
  • (19) On the other side of the divide, the newspaper La Razón, which is close to Pérez, demanded that he “respect the badge!” Ramos, has been accused of being a money-grabber by the pro-Pérez press, which has only deepened the sense of mutual distrust.
  • (20) Video frame grabbers are powerful devices which perform rapid conversion of video images into digital format for subsequent computer processing.

Seize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.
  • (v. t.) To take possession of by force.
  • (v. t.) To invade suddenly; to take sudden hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient.
  • (v. t.) To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods.
  • (v. t.) To fasten; to fix.
  • (v. t.) To grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly; as, to seize an idea.
  • (v. t.) To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Batson believes there is a “mood” that needs to be seized upon.
  • (2) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
  • (3) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
  • (4) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
  • (5) Remember, if he did seize group power and dispose of the Independent , he'd still be boss of the rest of INM: 200 or so papers and magazines around the world, dominant voices in Australasia, South Africa, India and Ireland itself, 100 million readers a week.
  • (6) Lieberman said: "[Amazon's] decision to cut off WikiLeaks now is the right decision and should set the standard for other companies WikiLeaks is using to distribute its illegally seized material.
  • (7) Generals who have mutinied have seized the capital of South Sudan's largest state, Jonglei, and its main oil-producing area, Unity State.
  • (8) The coroner also raised concerns that although the aim of the operation in which Duggan was killed was to take guns off the streets, little attempt was made to seize weapons believed to be held by Hutchinson-Foster.
  • (9) Employers seize the workers’ passports and the only body that can issue a permit for a worker to leave Qatar is the employer himself.
  • (10) Backlogs and staff shortages have long been seized upon by veterans groups lobbying for more resources, but it is the apparent cover-up of the scale of the problem that has transformed these latest complaints into a growing political problem for the White House.
  • (11) Social media has seized on the story, turning the Eastern Washington University’s professor of African studies into a figure vilified and mocked for cultural appropriation in the midst of fraught debates over transgender identity and police shootings of black people.
  • (12) A Yazidi lawmaker, a Kurdish security official and an Iraqi official from the nearby city of Sinjar gave similar accounts, saying Isis fighters had massacred scores of Yazidi men on Friday afternoon after seizing Kocho.
  • (13) "This is a formidable challenge, requiring step changes in the rate at which we improve our energy efficiency and in low-carbon innovation.The Carbon Trust's proposals recognise the need for us to be smarter in focusing our investments, including to help businesses seize the economic opportunities of the transition."
  • (14) The US and Iran have had no diplomatic relations since 1979, when a group of student protesters seized the US embassy in Tehran and took US officials hostage.
  • (15) The militants have also seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, and have declared a self-styled caliphate in the territory they control.
  • (16) But the Tories edited out a crucial final sentence in which Balls told BBC Radio Leeds on 9 January : “But I think we can be tougher and we should be and we will.” Labour seized on the Tory editing of the Balls interview to accuse the Tories of misleading people to defend their refusal to tackle tax avoidance.
  • (17) The Ukrainian president, Oleksandr Turchynov, had given pro-Russian locals in eastern Ukraine until Monday morning to give up their arms and the buildings they had seized, but instead a pro-Russian mob took over yet another government building in Horlivka that day.
  • (18) The terrorists know that if Iraq and Afghanistan survive their assault, come through their travails, seize the opportunity the future offers, then those countries will stand not just as nations liberated from oppression, but as a lesson to humankind everywhere and a profound antidote to the poison of religious extremism.
  • (19) In 2014, they seized on Osborne’s declaration of a “northern powerhouse” to promote One North, a plan for a £15bn network, dubbed HS3, between Lancashire and Yorkshire.
  • (20) The president’s supporters seized on the incident to plant seeds of confusion and false equivalency: if that Russia story was wrong, perhaps all of them are wrong?

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