Punishment vs Grip - What's the difference?
punishment | grip |
The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.
A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution
(figuratively) Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished; rough handling
To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
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To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
To trench; to drain.
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.
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(dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
As nouns the difference between punishment and grip
is that punishment is the act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction while grip is a hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand or grip can be (dialectal) a small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain or grip can be (obsolete) the griffin.As a verb grip is
to take hold of, particularly with the hand.punishment
English
Noun
(en noun)- a vehicle that can take a lot of punishment
Synonyms
* castigation * punition * beatingAntonyms
* rewardHyponyms
* retributionDerived terms
* corporal punishment * mirror punishment * (l)grip
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) grippan, from a (etyl) , whence English gripe. See also (l).Verb
(gripp)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.}}
- 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
Etymology 2
An amalgam of (etyl) (cognate with Swedish ''grepp ).Noun
(en noun)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.}}
Etymology 3
From (etyl) grip, grippe, .Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- (Ray)