Word Finder - grasping

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To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.

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To understand.

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I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity.

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To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance.

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The act of one who grasps or covets.

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Greedy, eager for wealth.

Instead, she stretched for the laser gun, grasping it.

He tentatively moved forward, grasping a branch.

I think we're grasping at the proverbial straw to consider him.

Henry's English government was severe and grasping; but he "kept good peace" and honourably distinguished himself among contemporary statesmen in an age when administrative reform was in the air.

Ignorant, brutal, grasping and corrupt as he was, he deserved the confidence of his master.

She stopped suddenly, grasping the tree with one hand.

Although not a mere grasping adventurer, he was largely responsible for reducing the internal administration of the country to an abominable system of espionage, corruption and cruelty.

Later, in his movement towards Positivism, he strongly repudiates Kant's separation of phenomenon from noumenon, and affirms that our intellect is capable of grasping the whole reality.

It is the grasping, the craving, still existing at the death of the one body that causes the new set of Skandhas, that is, the new body with its mental tendencies and capacities, to arise.

These birds catch their prey by swooping down and grasping fish or small animals in their talons.

The foreign policy of Chile, as indicated by this note, was considered by Argentina to be grasping and unconciliatory, and there were rumours of an anti-Chilean South American federation.

Begin this exercise by grasping a dumbbell in each hand.

Bend one leg behind you, grasping hold of your ankle behind you.

In the male the first one or two pairs of feet are modified into grasping organs.

Hubert was an ingenious, original and industrious public servant, but he was grasping and perhaps dishonest.

The ancient Greeks symbolized it as a man walking, with his right hand grasping a club, and his left extending upwards and holding the leash of two dogs, which are apparently barking at the Great Bear.

Again and again it has been proved that the human great toe can be by constant practice used as a thumb; artists exist who have painted pictures grasping the brush with their toes, and violinists have been known to play their instruments in the same manner.

The brain no longer consists solely of the nerve-ganglion-mass proper to the prostomial lobe, as in Chaetopoda, but is a composite (syncerebrum) produced by the fusion of this and the nerve-ganglion-masses proper to the prosthomeres or segments which pass forwards, whilst their parapodia (= appendages) become converted into eye-stalks, and antennae, or more rarely grasping organs.

As well as creative love, we see destructive, grasping selfishness.

Have you ever watched a baby or very young toddler grasping for their bottle?

Grasping the nettle There is no simple resolution to the quandary of police reform in Northern Ireland.

This document viewed clinical supervision as a method of providing continued education by grasping the quintessence of nursing practice.

Ron Kovic gave the countdown to the toppling of the 30-foot statue of Bush, grasping a missile, to enormous acclaim.

As your baby reaches six months, he has likely reached many important baby milestones, such as rolling over, imitating sounds, and grasping objects.

For best results, select clear glasses that allow you to see the color of the wine, and opt for stemmed glasses that allow you to hold the glass by the stem in order to maintain temperature without warming wine up by grasping the bowl.

At this stage of development, children start to explore and understand the world around them by doing things like sucking, grasping, and crawling.

Grasping reflex occurs as the palmar reflex when a finger is placed in the neonate's palm and the neonate grasps the finger.

Voluntary movement (for example, walking, grasping, chewing) is primarily accomplished using skeletal muscles (muscles attached to bones).

Those who have CP may have only minor difficulty with fine motor skills, such as grasping and manipulating items with their hands.

Infants are engaged in the vigorous process of self-discovery, learning their world by looking, listening, chewing, smelling, and grasping.

To compensate for this, the person may be asked to perform some muscle contraction, such as clenching teeth or grasping and pulling the two hands apart.

With training, most patients can open and close their hand in two different grasping movements and lock the grasp in place by moving their shoulder in different ways.

These behaviors include crying, searching, grasping, following, smiling, reaching, and vocalizing.

If you know your child is having a hard time grasping a particular school subject, find a tutor or meet with his teacher to discover positive ways in which you can help him learn.

The Emmy statuette, a winged woman grasping an atom, was designed by Louis McManus, who modeled it after his wife, Dorothy.

Relying on the power of their large, bat like wings and grasping claws, these dragons were meant to instill fear in those who viewed them.

After grasping the physical concept of yoga, practitioners often move on to pursue more challenging paths or become teachers of the Iyengar method.

It is performed by holding the palm of your right hand facing your chest and grasping it with the left hand, tugging firmly.

If you're doing a heel stretch simply for the stretching advantage, you can start out by grasping your heel and moving into a side extension.

Once you've mastered this method, you can move your hand from your heel and attempt the same stretch with your hand now grasping the insole of your foot.

You can also reverse this exercise by placing your palm downward and lifting your hand up while grasping an item in your hand.

While discussing noses, he says that those with thick bulbous ends belong to persons who are insensitive, swinish; sharp-tipped belong to the irascible, those easily provoked, like dogs; rounded, large, obtuse noses to the magnanimous, the lion-like; slender hooked noses to the eagle-like, the noble but grasping; round-tipped retrousse noses to the luxurious, like barndoor fowl; noses with a very slight notch at the root belong to the impudent, the crow-like; while snub noses belong to persons of luxurious habits, whom he compares to deer; open nostrils are signs of passion, &c.

In this he drew a masterly picture, not only of the life and immorality of the friars but also of the insolent Filipino chiefs or caciques, subservient to the powers above, tyrannical to those below, superstitious, unprogressive and grasping.

The fine Thucydidean speeches, the dramatic power of grasping character, and the pathos and poetry that run through the stories, along with a humour such as is shown in the Edda, and a varied grace of style that never flags or palls, make Snorri one of the greatest of historians.

But whatever their position may have been legally, they were as grasping as any feudal nobility in Europe, and they were singularly destitute of any capacity for combined political action.

Robin Tennant, Glasgow During the 1970s a Sun cartoonist depicted striking workers as greedy, grasping, lazy, selfish and brainless.

The honest and wise Sir Hugh stands before Simple, his right hand grasping the hilt of his sword.

The Euston group, like the mainstream anti-war movement, appears incapable of grasping the world in its many-sided complexity.

The proletariat cannot become the liberator of society without grasping and fighting for the positive resolution of all contradictions inherent in it.

And the grasping of this principle gives one the means of solving many a dark paradox and hidden secret of Nature.