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grasp
has definitions from the field of psychology
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[ verb ] hold firmly
Used in print (Mr. America, 4:6...)Place a suitably loaded barbell across them ; grasp the bar ( which will rest against the back of your neck ) ; extend your feet forward and backward until you are in a deep leg split . (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)They cannot stop to grasp and embrace and sit in the back seat of cars along a dark country lane . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)She grasped the chair arms and brought her thin body upright , like a bird alert for flight . Once her trembling hand , with the pen grasped tight in it , was pressed against the paper the words came sharply , smoothly , as authoritatively as they would dropping from her own lips . (Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)In the same way he pantomimed grasping a mantel and bouncing cleanly off that , pressing his hands against the floor and bouncing cleanly off that . |
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[ verb ] get the meaning of something
Synonyms Examples "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)The concept of unity , in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force , in which good and evil are relative , ever-changing , and always joined to the same phenomenon - such a concept is still reserved to the physical_sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas . (William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)The necessary inference , as the authors themselves interpret it , would seem to be this : `` ( 1 ) Spatial qualities are not among those grasped by the sense_of_touch , as_such . (Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)But at the end of the sitting , when Michelangelo showed him the quick , free drawings , with the mother roughed in , holding her son , the model grasped what Michelangelo was_after , and promised to speak_to his friends . Related terms understand catch_on figure digest intuit understanding grasping comprehension |
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[ noun ] (psychology) understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
Synonyms Examples "he has a good grasp of accounting practices" Related terms |
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