0 past simple and past participle of grasp
1 to quickly take something in your hand(s) and hold it firmly:
We must grasp every opportunity to strengthen economic ties with other countries.
2 to understand something, especially something difficult:
The government has acknowledged that homelessness is a problem but it has failed to grasp the scale of the problem.
The baby stretched out a tiny hand and grasped my finger tightly.
Feeling herself falling, she grasped the rail with both hands.
The eagle swooped down and grasped the rabbit in its sharp talons.
Thus, many of the failures of econometrics are easily grasped as manifestations of structural changes combined with the inability to predict such changes.
The significance of this for lawyers may not yet have been grasped.
However, the larger cylinder (a 104 mm diameter canister) is too large to be grasped by the gripper.
