Grasp
To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.
To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with; to comprehend.
To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive.
A gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms.
Reach of the arms; hence, the power of seizing and holding; as, it was beyond his grasp.
Forcible possession; hold.
Wide-reaching power of intellect to comprehend subjects and hold them under survey.
The handle of a sword or of an oar.
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Grasp Quotations
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Mahatma Gandhi
Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.
Newt Gingrich
I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.
Richard Branson
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
James Russell Lowell
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
Pope John Paul II
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
John Donne
Leaders grasp nettles.
David Ogilvy
Grasp Translations
grasp in Afrikaans is gryp
grasp in Danish is gribe
grasp in Dutch is bemachtigen, aangrijpen, grijpen
grasp in German is greife, Zugriff, Fassungsgabe, Griff
grasp in Italian is comprendere, prendere, impaccare
grasp in Latin is complectus, occupo, prehendo, contineo
grasp in Portuguese is aperto
grasp in Spanish is empu ar, agarrar, idear
grasp in Swedish is grepp, tag i, uppfatta, gripa tag i, tag, fatta
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