(v. t.) An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.
(v. t.) A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip.
(v. t.) That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as, the grip of a sword.
(v. t.) A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
(v. t.) To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
(2) It’s as though the nation is in the grip of an hysteria that would make Joseph McCarthy proud.
(3) The single best predictor of EI was BW (r2 = 0.47, p = 0.0001), and further small but significant contributions were made by BMC (r2 = 0.53, p = 0.0001) and grip strength (r2 = 0.55, p = 0.0001).
(4) However, it had no significant effect on grip strength, digital contractures, respiratory function or visceral involvement.
(5) Indian women are aware of our tenuous grip on our rights.
(6) The recovery of power grip and finger grip strength is complete in most patients by two months.
(7) Results indicate substantial postoperative improvement in tip prehension and grasp, while performance remained essentially unchanged for lateral prehension, pinch force, and power grip.
(8) Mean grip strength and grip strength per kilogram weight are presented for age 59, ages 60-64 and 65-69.
(9) The measurement is used to control a sensory feedback device applied to the surface of the skin within the socket of the prosthesis informing the wearer of the strength of grip exerted.
(10) Plasma catecholamine levels and the haemodynamic response to the hand-grip test have therefore been evaluated in a group of young athletes, compared with a group of non-trained youths.
(11) The Guardian's Xan Brooks described Fruitvale Station as a "quietly gripping debut feature" in which "one has the sense of a man being slowly, surely written back into being" after the film's Cannes screening in May.
(12) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
(13) Heart rate elevation observed after hand grip maneuver did not change.
(14) That's why the policies that are desperately needed for the majority to break the grip of a failed economic model would also help make regulated migration work for all: stronger trade unions, a higher minimum wage, a shift from state-subsidised low pay to a living wage, a crash housing investment programme, a halt to cuts in public services, and an end to the outsourced race to the bottom in employment conditions.
(15) Once I’d checked she was OK I said, ‘Stop crying now.’ ” So it’s about managing emotions: ‘I’m going to need you to get a grip.’” “If you’ve got interesting points to make about the devaluing of serious words like bullying and depression, why make them in a way that sounds like you’re ridiculing people who are suffering?” I ask.
(16) "Zidane, Zidane, Zidane... France was in the grip of 'zizoumania'," Marcel Desailly wrote in his autobiography, reflecting on the triumph on home soil eight years ago, when giant images of the No 10 covered the sides of floodlit office blocks.
(17) The Holland manager had decided to retain the 5-3-2 system that worked so effectively against Spain but he reverted to 4-3-3 at the interval after losing Martins Indi and accepting that something had to change to enable his players to get a grip on a game that Australia were controlling in the first half.
(18) Loss of the righting response was not associated with any gross reduction in skeletal muscle tone (inclined screen and wire grip tests) and it was proposed that the animals were not anaesthetized but instead could be placed on their backs because flurazepam had enhanced the cataleptic effect of THC.
(19) The blood flow through the forearm was measured 2 sec after single, brief isometric hand-grip contractions.
(20) Analysis of the rate of functional recovery as measured by total active motion, gross grip strength, and pinch grip strength showed no significant difference between the two groups.
Tag
Definition:
(n.) Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
(n.) A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
(n.) The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
(n.) Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
(n.) A sheep of the first year.
(n.) A sale of usually used items (such as furniture, clothing, household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment.
(v. t.) To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.
(v. t.) To join; to fasten; to attach.
(v. t.) To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.
(v. i.) To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.
(v.) A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.
Example Sentences:
(1) In general, optimal DAGAT activity in vitro was observed when long-chain unsaturated acyl-CoAs and diacylglycerols (DAGs) containing long acyl chains were used as substrates for in vitro TAG synthesis (although 1,2-didecanoin was also very effective).
(2) Calves were tagged in the right ear with the green certified preconditioned for health (CPH) tag of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners.
(3) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
(4) Nuclear pores were frequently tagged after estradiol treatment.
(5) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(6) I still can’t figure out who this is aimed at: I’m imagining characters who think they’re in Wolf of Wall Street, with such an inflated sense of entitlement that even al desko meals need to come with Michelin tags.
(7) Genetic relations of skin tags, colon polyps, and colon cancer are a matter of ongoing research.
(8) Here we describe the cloning of da by the transposon tagging approach as well as some aspects of the molecular characterization of wild-type and mutant alleles.
(9) Liquid nitrogen spray followed by light electrodesiccation treatment is helpful in the management of flat warts, small skin tags, seborrheic keratoses, and cherry angiomas.
(10) Harry Kane laughs off one-season wonder tag after Alan Shearer pep talk Read more “He is a great role model.
(11) This is a report on our experience with the EPICS C (Coultronics) cytometric flux apparatus, a screening cell analyzer, employing a laser ray (2 or 5 watts); we obtained good results to analyze immunologically-tagged mononuclear blood cells with or without prior separation: for rhythm, repeatability, and contamination.
(12) Monoclonal antibodies tagged with chelated metal ions have numerous potential applications.
(13) Not just going to a live show, but that kind of live show, with that kind of audience, the kind where mums and dads either have to tag along or turn up at the end to pick their children up.
(14) The recurrent cases were found to be caused by adhesion bands produced by hanging tags of incompletely removed yellow ligament.
(15) Bolus tracking, flow enhancement by spin replacement, and selective tagging are three classes of methods being pursued for MR angiography.
(16) We evaluated 109 women with endometrial carcinoma to determine the accuracy of preoperative tumor-associated antigen levels (CA 125, CA 72, CA 15-3) for prediction of extrauterine disease and whether TAG 72, CA 15-3, or both would improve the predictive value of CA 125 alone.
(17) The duration of S phase was unaffected by Tag expression.
(18) Although more than one vector can be utilized, only a library of fragments cloned into any single phage, phagemid or plasmid vector is actually required, together with a set of tagged oligonucleotide primers.
(19) The results also showed that Tag treated fruits developed their internal and external coloration normally, whereas mangos with Falvorseal coating did not develop their external coloration nor their red internal coloration.
(20) In addition, nonheme iron absorption from a test meal of the respective beef pattie consumed for the 180 days was estimated by the extrinsic tag procedure.