(v. t.) To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.
(v. t.) To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.
(v. t.) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
(v. i.) To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.
(v. i.) To suffer griping pains.
(v. i.) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm.
(n.) Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.
(n.) That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword.
(n.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
(n.) Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.
(n.) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.
(n.) The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
(n.) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
(n.) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging.
Example Sentences:
(1) His gripe is with Jeremy – as far as I’m concerned, he will play for West Brom again,” Pulis told the Daily Mail .
(2) Like many, I assumed that the accumulated gripes about ticketing (thoroughly justified in this case), Zil lanes, G4S failures, McDonald's sponsorship and over-heavy security would have ensured healthy levels of Olympic alienation and even hostility.
(3) Where d’you live, let’s have this out in person, shall we?’” But these are small gripes.
(4) Or is it someone who takes 10 minutes of going on about their bunions and general gripes before revealing that they had an episode of crippling chest pain last night, by the way?
(5) This is one of my pet gripes about modern society: the way in which serious issues and events are converted into bizarre forms of celebrity,” he wrote.
(6) This is one of my pet gripes about modern society: the way in which serious issues and events are converted into bizarre forms of celebrity.” Efforts to contact Latham have been unsuccessful.
(7) Along with the City, they've all got a gripe with Miliband.
(8) Large numbers of babies are given gripe water for no valid reason or for only trivial symptoms, write Cynthia Illingworth and John Timmins.
(9) Simultaneous tenesmic gripes, some of the patients had also suffered from, disappeared completely, with the exception of two cases where, however, normalization of the stools was obtained by means of the loperamide therapy.
(10) Hannah Fletcher, a single mum who works part-time but would like more hours, said her main gripe was that the majority of politicians “are white, middle-aged men who are not in tune with society”.
(11) Lamont's further gripe is a council tax freeze launched as a stopgap measure in 2007-08 by the then minority SNP administration, pending the introduction of a local income tax.
(12) My main gripe is that there’s no flexibility about when my work gets done.
(13) HS That is absolutely not my gripe: if anyone is potty (and rich) enough to spend a grand on a handbag, that’s fine by me— and you’re right, all power to the craftsmen and everyone else involved.
(14) Premier League 2015-16 review: gripe of the season | Tom Davies Read more David Hytner For some reason, I hate it when the league is referred to as ‘The Barclays Premier League,’ either in copy or on TV.
(15) Wilkie says: "The main gripe is that all the music we play is crap.
(16) And for all my gripes, many of my most intense experiences of art happen here.
(17) Indeed, McClaren’s only possible gripe would have been regret that some of his side’s sharp midfield incision could have done with being replicated in the penalty area.
(18) Small gripes include the grading of games leading to tiered pricing, and having to buy tickets for two games if you want to go to Palace versus the likes of Arsenal and Chelsea.
(19) But the militant gays and thinning hair and gluteal amnesia are small gripes.
(20) But bias is not my gripe; the good Muslim v bad Muslim game is an old one.
Grise
Definition:
(pl. ) of Gree
(n.) See Grice, a pig.
(n.) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Tony Blair has become Sisi's éminence grise and is working on the economic plan that the UAE is paying for.
(2) In a pre-Bridesmaids world, the name Paul Feig would have meant little, save to a loyal hardcore of 90s coming-of-age TV fans who saw him as the eminence grise behind Judd Apatow's comic empire.
(3) Law and Justice’s eminence grise – part Yoda, part Karl Lagerfeld – runs a country of almost 40 million people from his party office in central Warsaw.
(4) As the grisest of Westminster éminences grises, it should have been him that got to pronounce on the health of the intelligence services.
(5) Before his death in 2011, Richard Hamilton went from enfant terrible to éminence grise of British pop art, famous for his collages such as Just What is it That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?
(6) Ormsby-Gore became an éminence grise to Kennedy, closer to him even than some White House advisors.
(7) But if the president has thrown in with the neocons and War Party, and we are plunging back into the Mideast maelstrom, Trump should know that many of those who helped to nominate and elect him – to keep us out of unnecessary wars – may not be standing by him.” Kristol: Trump ‘Mugged by Reality’ Publication : The Weekly Standard, Kristol Clear podcast Author: Michael Graham fulfills his appointed weekly role of tossing flattery and softball questions in the few gaps in a rant by William Kristol, neocon eminence grise, war fan, and Weekly Standard founder.
(8) But Saturday's last-minute registration of Hashemi Rafsanjani, a powerful former president and the pragmatic éminence grise of Iranian politics for decades, has dramatically overturned the assumption that this will be a contest only between dyed-in-the-wool conservatives.
(9) Mubarak, commander of the air force before becoming president in 1981, is still surrounded by trusted generals, including Omar Suleiman, his veteran intelligence chief and éminence grise, and Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the defence minister and chief of staff.
(10) Conservative eminence grise Phyllis Schlafly believes Obama is allowing it into the country deliberately .
(11) Roger Ailes , Fox News chairman and chief executive, Rupert Murdoch’s closest general and èminence grise to a gallery of Republican presidents, was negotiating his exit from a job he has held for 20 years, his reputation in shreds amid allegations of sexual impropriety at the network – the latest reportedly from Fox News’s brightest star.
(12) The unique system of Islamic governance created by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Islamic Republic's éminence grise , may be tested to breaking point.
(13) And [I’m] proud to be a part of it.” But he dismissed claims levelled by the former president that Lynne Cheney, his wife, as well as his daughter Liz Cheney, had been the “eminence grises” behind his vice-presidency.
(14) If he is not as famous as he deserves, it is partly because he liked to play the behind-the-scenes role of the mentor, the guru, the éminence grise.