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garb | grasp |

As a noun garb

is fashion, style of dressing oneself up or garb can be (heraldiccharge) a wheat sheaf.

As a verb garb

is to dress in garb.

As an acronym grasp is

(software|object-oriented design).

garb

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) and (etyl) gear).

Noun

(en noun)
  • Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
  • A type of dress or clothing.
  • *
  • *:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
  • (lb) A guise, external appearance.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb , he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dress in garb.
  • Etymology 2

    (etyl) gerbe; akin to German Garbe

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (heraldiccharge) A wheat sheaf.
  • A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
  • * 1957 , H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , page 118.
  • Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.''

    Anagrams

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    grasp

    English

    (wikipedia grasp)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
  • (senseid)To understand.
  • I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity .

    Derived terms

    * grasp the nettle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Grip.
  • *
  • *:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • (senseid)Understanding.
  • That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.
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