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Look up: grab

  1. Grab
    Benthic sampling device with two or more curved metal plates designed to converge when the sampler hits bottom and grab a specified volume of bottom sediment
    Found on http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/glo

  2. grab
    [v] - obtain illegally or unscrupulously 2. [v] - make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand 3. [v] - take or grasp suddenly 4. [v] - capture the attention or imagination of
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. grab
    a grabbing device suspended from a crane and consisting of movable jaws; cf. polyp grab crane Category: Mechanical engineering
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. Grab
    Grab (grăb) noun [ Arabic & Hind. ghurāb crow, raven, a kind of Arab ship.] (Nautical) A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/47

  5. Grab
    Grab (grăb) transitive verb & i. [ imperfect & past participle Grabbed (grăbd); present participle & verbal noun Grabbing .] [ Akin to Swedish grabba to grasp. Confer Grabble , Grapple , Grasp .] To gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/47

  6. Grab
    Grab noun 1. A sudden grasp or seizure. 2. An instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them; -- specially applied to devices for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven. Grab bag , at fairs, a bag or box holding small articles which are to be drawn, without being seen, on payment of a small sum. [ ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/47

  7. grab
    noun a mechanical device for gripping an object
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. grab
    seize verb capture the attention or imagination of; `This story will grab you`; `The movie seized my imagination`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. Grab
    `Grab` may refer to: * Grab (tool) * Grab (software), a Macintosh screen capture utility software application * Grab bar, a bar used to grab and steady oneself
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grab

  10. Grab
    • (n.) A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts. • (n.) A sudden grasp or seizure. • (v. t. & i.) To gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch. • (n.) An instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them; -- specially applied to devices for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and othe...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  11. GRAB
    The first series of American ELINT (electronic intelligence) satellites, operated by the United States Navy between July 1960 and August 1962. Documents, declassified only in 1998, reveal that the project was originally called “Tattletale,” then renamed GRAB (an acronym of the spurious name “Galacti...
    Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedi


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23 November 2009

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At sixteen minutes past five on 23rd November 1963, a British television institution was born. Doctor Who would go on to become the longest-running science-fiction programme in the world, eventually spawning twenty six seasons of adventures from 1963 to 1989. In total, eight actors have played the part of Gallifrey's most famous Time Lord. From the very first - William Hartnell in 1963 - to the very last - Paul McGann, in the 1996 TV Movie - the Doctor has wandered through time and space in his trusty time machine, an old type-40 TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Although appearing to be nothing more than a battered blue police box, it is in fact vastly bigger on the inside than on the outside, and always departs with its familiar wheezing, groaning sound. read more

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