Grasp vs Administration - What's the difference?
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To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
(senseid)To understand.
Grip.
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*: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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(uncountable) The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.
(countable) A body that administers; the executive part of government; the persons collectively who are entrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain.
(uncountable) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
(uncountable, business) Management.
(uncountable, legal, UK) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.
As nouns the difference between grasp and administration
is that grasp is grip while administration is the act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.As a verb grasp
is to grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.grasp
English
(wikipedia grasp)Verb
(en verb)- I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity .
Derived terms
* grasp the nettleNoun
(en noun)administration
English
(wikipedia administration)Noun
(en-noun)- Successive US administrations have had similar Middle East policies.
- ''the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.
- The company went into voluntary administration last week.