GRIP

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Traducere în limba română

grip I. substantiv

1. strânsoare; înhăţare, apucare; strângere de mână.

2. încăierare, încleştare;

to come / to get to grips a se încleşta în luptă;

to be at grips with a fi încăierat cu cineva.

3. mâner (de sabie, de sculă etc.).

4. (fig.) putere, autoritate, imperiu;

in the grip of poverty în mizerie, în sărăcie;

(amer.) to lose one’s grip a-şi pierde entuziasmul; a se descuraja;

to lose one’s grip of / on a-şi pierde controlul asupra (cu gen.);

to have a good grip of a subject a fi stăpân pe un subiect, a şti bine despre ce e vorba;

to hold smth. in one’s grip a avea ceva în puterea sa.

5. capacitate de înţelegere / de pătrundere.

6. iscusinţa de a stăpâni situaţia sau atenţia cuiva;

grip of a play on the audience impresie puternică făcută de o piesă asupra sălii / publicului.

7. (amer.) valiză, geamantan.

8. (tehn.) gheară, dispozitiv de prindere.

9. şanţ, rigolă.

grip II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a apuca strâns (cu dinţii sau cu mâinile).

2. a ţine strâns.

3. a strânge; a prinde;

the ship was gripped by the ice vasul a fost prins între gheţuri;

to grip smth. in a vice a strânge ceva în menghină;

fear gripped him frica pusese stăpânire pe el, era ţintuit de groază.

grip II. verb B. intranzitiv

(mar.) a se prinde de fund;

the anchor does not grip ancora nu s-a prins de fund.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

These muscles were made to grip, and tear, and destroy living things that get between me and life.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

They were sledge-like blows, and when Edith felt Dennin's body relax she loosed her grip and rolled clear.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

I do not think it could have made off so fast among the branches if it could not get a grip with its feet.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But we held our grip all the same.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The bull- dog did little but keep his grip.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

It was clear to me at a glance that he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On either side the seamen whom Sir Nigel had chosen for the purpose had cast their anchors over the side of the galleys, so that the three vessels, locked in an iron grip, lurched heavily forward upon the swell.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was in such an excited state that she seemed to have lost her grip of what German she knew, and mixed it all up with some other language which I did not know at all.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I understood the whole argument of that firm, restraining grip—that it was no affair of ours, that justice had overtaken a villain, that we had our own duties and our own objects, which were not to be lost sight of.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And still you struggle in my grip. You kick with your legs. Your body draws itself up in knots like a snake’s.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

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