1 to keep someone's attention completely: --
2 When an emotion such as fear grips you, you feel it strongly: --
3 control over something or someone: --
5 a bag for travelling that is smaller than a suitcase --
The major disadvantage of clamping methods is that they require access to more than one surface of the workpiece for gripping to occur.
The intention, declared on the first page, is to come to grips with the relations between built environments and development.
Now he appears alone, coming to grips, probably in an obbligato recitative, with his internal struggle.
What had happened, and what was the way forward to come to grips with this elusive rate constant?
Our claim is that a false expectation, going by the name of the 'quest for certainty', has gripped those conducting research synthesis.
A striking feature of the modern debate is the failure of all concerned to come to grips with the trade itself.
The imaginative application of the narrative mode leads instead to good stories, gripping drama, believable (though not necessarily 'true') historical accounts.
We experience buildings from detail to concept (a hand grips a door handle and a space unfolds), yet we design them from concept to detail.
