grip

«grip» in Mova's school dictionary: to hold something very tightly — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a grip, grips); verb (grip, grips, gripped, gripping)

meaning for a pupil

1) To grip is to hold something very tightly. tree →

2) A grip is a tight hold: Keep a firm grip on the rope. tree →

3) A grip is the part of something you hold, like the handle of a racket. tree →

4) Grip is how well something holds onto a surface without slipping: Shoes need good grip. tree →

5) To grip someone can mean to hold their attention strongly: The story gripped me. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, grip comes from friction: rough soles, tyre treads and rubber handles grip better; wet and icy surfaces have less grip. In sport and PE: grip the bat, a good grip on the bars. In stories, a gripping book is so exciting you cannot stop reading. Phrases: get a grip (calm down), lose your grip, a firm grip, in the grip of.

examples

• Grip the handlebars tightly. tree →
• Keep a good grip on the dog's lead. tree →
• My trainers have good grip on the wet floor. tree →
• The tyres lost grip on the ice. tree →
• The story gripped me from the first page. tree →
• Hold the racket by the grip. tree →
• The town was in the grip of a cold winter. tree →
• Get a grip, it's only a spider! tree →
• But an iron claw gripped his shoulder. tree →

note

Past: gripped, gripping (double p). Adjective: gripping (very exciting). In science, more friction = more grip.

In the corpora

• Documentaries are films about real life, like nature, history or sport, and the best ones are as gripping as any story.
• Birds of prey, also called raptors, hunt other animals with sharp eyes, hooked beaks and gripping feet with curved talons.
• Soil gives plants water, grip for their roots and minerals such as nitrogen; without minerals plants grow small and yellow.
• The soles of a polar bear's paws have fur and small bumps that grip the ice and keep the feet warm.
• Hard deer hooves grip soil and snow but slip on smooth ice, so real deer avoid frozen ponds where they can.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «grip» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.