0 to take hold of something or someone suddenly and roughly: --
1 to take the opportunity to get, use, or enjoy something quickly: --
Complex grabbing actions can be performed creating sound from braking and other sounding phenomena from the objects inside.
Bright-field images (panels i-v) were grabbed just prior to each luminescent image.
The 1970s was the decade of liberation, it was the decade when just about everything was put up for grabs.
In all sorts of ways, any straightforward history of twentieth-century philosophy of science seems up for grabs.
In other words, while call/cc grabbed continuations between the current expression and the prompt, most simulations needed only a part of this continuation.
The artist grabs the technology in its current state so that it becomes a new technique for creation.
I grabbed a hammer and broke the machine.
My outstretched hand grabbed him before he went under.