grip – English noun declension

English noun forms of grip

Noun: grip
Singulargrip
Pluralgrips

Sample Sentences

  • It's good to have a firm grip when shaking hands.
  • The ball will move differently depending on the grip used when throwing it.
  • These tyres are worn out and don't have much grip.
  • Near-synonym: handgrip
  • There are several good grips on the northern face of this rock.
  • The grip of a sword is part of its hilt.
  • The unthreaded portion of the bolt's shank is called the grip.
  • We need to get a grip on these spiralling costs.
  • in the grip of a blackmailer
  • to strengthen one's grip on a company
  • On the western sector, General Maltby tried to free the Japanese grip on Shouson Hill and Repulse Bay by sending the Punjabis to advance from Aberdeen to clear the road. [1978, G. B. Endacott, “The Assault on the Island: the First Three Days”, in Hong Kong Eclipse, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 94:]
  • Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. [2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:]
  • The current president toppled his uncle in a violent coup in 1979, before sentencing him to death by firing squad. Since then, he has consolidated his grip over the country's industries and is accused of diverting tax money into his personal accounts. [2016 June 22, Max Bearak, “The world’s longest-serving president just appointed his son as VP”, in The Washington Post:]
  • Instead England produced something that felt a little transgressive in this most controlled of stages, tightening their grip in a bruising first half, before freewheeling downhill in the second with their feet up on the handlebars. [2022 November 21, Barney Ronay, “Iran’s brave and powerful gesture is a small wonder from a World Cup of woe”, in The Guardian:]
  • He's losing his grip – he's practically senile.
  • For God's sake man, stop panicking and get a grip of yourself!
  • I need to get a grip of nails for my project.
  • That is a grip of cheese.
  • I haven't seen you in a grip.
  • She has the grip.
  • It so happened that, during a stretch of inclement weather in the fall, Lester was seized with a mild form of grip. When he felt the first symptoms he thought that his indisposition would be a matter of short duration, and tried to overcome it by taking a hot bath and a liberal dose of quinine. But the infection was stronger than he counted on; by morning he was flat on his back, with a severe fever and a splitting headache. [1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter XXXII, in Jennie Gerhardt:]
  • Grip! Grip!! The little touch of grip you had is no excuse for following the example of some of our "best citizens" who make every little ailment a pretext for dallying with the "demon"!!!!! [1908, A.D. Condo, The Outbursts of Everett True:]
  • 'I put my grips against the communicating door last night'. [1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 35:]

Etymology

1. Verb 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.
2. Noun 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). See: Old English Nouns 'grippan', Old English Nouns 'grīpan', Middle English Nouns 'grippe', Old English Nouns 'gripe', German Nouns 'Griff', Old English Nouns 'gripa', Swedish Nouns 'grepp'.

Verbs referencing "grip"

Dutch Nouns grip, German Nouns Grip.