grip

Meanings

Verb

• To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
• To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
• To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
• To trench; to drain.

Noun

• A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
• A handle or other place to grip.
• A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
• A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
• A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
• A lot of something.
• A long time.
• : Influenza, flu.
• A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
• An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
• Assistance; help or encouragement.
• A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
• As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
• A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
• A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
• A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
• The griffin.

Related

Similar words

• hang out

Origin

• From Middle English grippen, from Old English grippan, from a Proto-Germanic *gripjaną (compare Old High German gripfen); compare the related Old English grīpan, whence English gripe. See also grope, and the related Proto-Germanic *grīpaną.
• From Middle English grippe, gripe, an amalgam of Old English gripe ("grasp, hold") (cognate with German Griff) and Old English gripa ("handful") (cognate with Swedish grepp).
• From Middle English grip, grippe, gryppe, from Old English grēp ("a furrow, burrow") and grēpe, from Proto-Germanic *grōpiz ("a furrow, groove"). Cognate with Middle Dutch grippe, gruppe, greppe, German Low German Gruppe ("ditch, drain"). Related also to Old English grōp ("a ditch, drain"). More at groop.
• From Middle English gripe, from Old French gripe, from Latin grypus, gryphus.