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grasp

1. [işlik] kavramak [Umumy]

2. [işlik] anlamak [Umumy]

3. [işlik] tutmak [Umumy]

4. [işlik] yakalamak [Umumy]

5. [işlik] kapmak [Umumy]

Webster's English Dictionary

grasp

v. t. [OE. graspen; prob. akin to LG. grupsen, or to E. grope. Cf. Grab, Grope.]1. To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of. ()

Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff. (Shak.)

2. To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with; to comprehend. ()

v. i. To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive. ()

As one that grasped And tugged for life and was by strength subdued. (Shak.)

To grasp at, to catch at; to try to seize; as, Alexander grasped at universal empire, ()

n. 1. A gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms. (Shak.)

2. Reach of the arms; hence, the power of seizing and holding; as, it was beyond his grasp. ()

3. Forcible possession; hold. ()

The whole space that's in the tyrant's grasp. (Shak.)

4. Wide-reaching power of intellect to comprehend subjects and hold them under survey. ()

The foremost minds of the next . . . era were not, in power of grasp, equal to their predecessors. (Z. Taylor.)

5. The handle of a sword or of an oar. ()