grip
/ˈɡɹɪp/ noun C2- A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand. · It's good to have a firm grip when shaking hands.· The ball will move differently depending on the grip used when throwing it.
- Ability to resist slippage when pressed in contact with another object or surface. · These tyres are worn out and don't have much grip.
- A place to grip; a handle; the portion of a handle that the hand occupies. · Near-synonym: handgrip· There are several good grips on the northern face of this rock.
- A device, or a portion of one, that grasps or holds fast to something. · The unthreaded portion of the bolt's shank is called the grip.
- An apparatus attached to a car (e.g., cable car, funicular car, mine car) for clutching a traction cable.
- Control, power, or mastery over someone or something; a tenacious grasp; a holding fast. · We need to get a grip on these spiralling costs.· in the grip of a blackmailer
- Mental grasp. · He's losing his grip – he's practically senile.
- A medium-sized bag or holdall for one's belongings, made of soft leather, canvas etc., and carried in the hand by two handles, one either side of the opening.
Plural grips
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He had a solid grip of fact and a cool, clear, common-sense brain, which should take him some way in his profession.
“But if you mean to hint that it could reflect in any way upon this lady’s honour”—his eyes blazed for an instant, and then with an evident effort he got a grip upon his own emotions—“well, you are on the wrong track, that’s all.”
“I say, Watson,” he whispered, “would you be afraid to sleep in the same room with a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?”
It was death to the man that lost his grip.
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