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Grip vs Fist - What's the difference?

grip | fist |

In intransitive terms the difference between grip and fist

is that grip is to do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief while fist is to break wind.

In lang=en terms the difference between grip and fist

is that grip is as much as one can hold in a hand; a handful while fist is to fist-fuck.

As verbs the difference between grip and fist

is that grip is to take hold of, particularly with the hand while fist is to break wind.

As nouns the difference between grip and fist

is that grip is a hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand while fist is the act of breaking wind; fise.

As an initialism FIST is

future Infantry Soldier Technology.

grip

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) grippan, from a (etyl) , whence English gripe. See also (l).

Verb

(gripp)
  • To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
  • To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
  • By and by fumes of brandy began to fill the air, and climb to where I lay, overcoming the mouldy smell of decayed wood and the dampness of the green walls. It may have been that these fumes mounted to my head, and gave me courage not my own, but so it was that I lost something of the stifling fear that had gripped me, and could listen with more ease to what was going forward
  • To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
  • To trench; to drain.
  • Etymology 2

    An amalgam of (etyl) (cognate with Swedish ''grepp ).

    Noun

    (en 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.
  • (film production) 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.
  • : Influenza, flu.
  • (archaic) A small travelling-bag.
  • Assistance; help or encouragement.
  • A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
  • (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
  • (figurative) A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=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.}}
  • A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) grip, grippe, .

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
  • (Ray)
    Derived terms
    *

    Etymology 4

    (etyl) (lena) grypus, gryphus.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) The griffin.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    fist

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) fisten, fiesten, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To break wind.
  • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of breaking wind; fise.
  • A puffball.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) fist, from (etyl) 'five'. More at five.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward
  • The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round.
  • (printing) the pointing hand symbol
  • (ham radio) the characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code
  • (slang) a person's characteristic handwriting
  • A group of men.
  • The talons of a bird of prey.
  • * Spenser
  • More light than culver in the falcon's fist .
  • (informal) An attempt at something.
  • * 2005 , Darryl N. Davis, Visions of Mind: Architectures for Cognition and Affect (page 144)
  • With the rise of cognitive neuroscience, the time may be coming when we can make a reasonable fist of mapping down from an understanding of the functional architecture of the mind to the structural architecture of the brain.
    Synonyms
    * bunch of fives * fist-size * ductus
    Derived terms
    * fisty * iron fist * hand over fist * fistful * rule with an iron fist

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strike with the fist.
  • ...may not score a point with his open hand(s), but may score a point by fisting the ball.'' Damian Cullen. "Running the rule." ''The Irish Times 18 Aug 2003, pg. 52.
  • To close (the hand) into a fist.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 29:
  • He noticed Ada's trick of hiding her fingernails by fisting her hand or stretching it with the palm turned upward when helping herself to a biscuit.
  • To grip with a fist.
  • * 1851 ,
  • I am an officer; but, how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when I was before the mast.
  • (slang) To fist-fuck.
  • See also

    * knuckle * punch

    Anagrams

    * *