Snatched vs Grab - What's the difference?
snatched | grab |
(snatch)
To grasp quickly.
To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch.
To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
* Alexander Pope
To grasp and remove quickly.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
* Thomson
To steal.
(by extension) To take a victory at the last moment.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
, title= To do something quickly due to limited time available.
* , chapter=10
, title= A quick grab or catch.
(weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
A vulva.
* 1962 , Douglas Woolf, Wall to Wall , Grove Press, page 83,
* 1985 , Jackie Collins, Lucky , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671524933, page 150,
* 2008 , Jim Craig, North to Disaster , Bushak Press, ISBN 0961711213, page 178,
To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
* , chapter=7
, title= To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
To restrain someone; to arrest.
To grip the attention; to enthrall.
(informal) To quickly collect or retrieve.
* 1987 James Grady Just a Shot Away , Bantam, p117
* 1999 Jillian Dagg, Racing Hearts, Thomas Bouregy & Co., p105
* 2009 Mike Taylor, A Thousand Sleeps, Tate Publishing, p216
(informal) To consume something quickly.
To take the opportunity of.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 19, author=Paul Fletcher, work=BBC Sport
, title= a sudden snatch (for something)
* 1931 Harold M. Sherman, "The Baseball Clown," Boys' Life, Vol. 21, No. 4 (April 1931), Boy Scouts of America, p47
* 2003 J Davey, Six Years of Darkness, Trafford Publishing, p66
a mechanical device that grabs or clutches
# a device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven
(media) a soundbite
As verbs the difference between snatched and grab
is that snatched is past tense of snatch while grab is to grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.As a noun grab is
a sudden snatch (for something.snatched
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *snatch
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) snacchen, snecchen, from (etyl) . Related to snack.Verb
- to snatch a kiss
- when half our knowledge we must snatch , not take
- "How many times have I told you?" she cried, and seized him and snatched his stick away from him.
- Snatch me to heaven.
Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd, passage=But, with United fans in celebratory mood as it appeared their team might snatch glory, they faced an anxious wait as City equalised in stoppage time.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
Synonyms
* grab * See alsoDerived terms
* snatcher * purse snatcher * (l)Noun
(es)- The leftfielder makes a nice snatch to end the inning.
- I heard a snatch of Mozart as I passed the open window.
- Claude, is it true what they say about Olovia? Of course she’s getting a little old for us—what about Marilyum, did you try her snatch ?
- Roughly Santino ripped the sheet from the bed, exposing all of her. She had blond hair on her snatch , which drove him crazy. He was partial to blondes.
- “You want me to ask Brandy to let you paint her naked body with all this gooey stuff to make a mold of her snatch ?”
Synonyms
* (vagina) cunt, twatEtymology 2
Anagrams
* *grab
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(grabb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}
- "I'll just grab my jacket," said Manh-Hung.
- Hardly believing that Rafe actually planned to relax for a while, Kate nodded. "All right. Fine. I'll just go grab my purse."
- He looked at Albert and Ben, and then back to Nurse Allen. "I'll just grab my gear and be right back."
Blackpool 1-2 West Ham, passage=Both teams wasted good opportunities to score but it was the London side who did grab what proved to be the decisive third when the unmarked Vaz Te, a January signing from Barnsley, drilled the ball into the net from 12 yards.}}
Noun
(en noun)- The ball popped in and popped out, and when he made a grab for it on the ground he kicked it with his foot.
- He made a grab for me and I swung my handbag at him as hard as I could.
