Gristmill

Definition

grip / grÇp / v (- pp- ) ၁။ ဆုပ္ကိုင္သည္။ မိသည္။ The child gripped her mother's hand tightly. ❍ The brakes failed to grip (ie engage with and stop the wheels) and the car ran into a wall. ၂။ [ ဥ ] အာ႐ံု၊ ခံစားမႈ စသည္ကို ဖမ္းစား ထားသည္။ I was completely gripped by the play from start to finish. ❍ Terror has gripped the city for days. n ၁။ [sing] ~ (on sb/ sth) (က) ဆုပ္ျခင္း။ ကိုင္ျခင္း။ ဆြဲေဆာင္ျခင္း။ Take a grip on the rope. ❍ I let go/ released my grip and he ran away. ❍ The climber relaxed her grip and fell. ❍ ( fig ) The film begins well but gradually loses its grip on one's attention. (ခ) ဆုပ္ကိုင္ပံု။ ကိုင္ပံုကိုင္နည္း။ Try adjusting your grip on the club/ racket. ၂။ [sing] ~ (on sb/ sth) (က) ခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္ ျခင္း။ a ruler with a powerful grip on the people/ the country. (ခ) နားလည္၊ သေဘာေပါက္ျခင္း။ She doesn't have much of a grip on the job. ❍ I couldn't get a grip on what was going on. ၃။ [U] (မ်က္ႏွာျပင္တြင္) ၿမဲျခင္း။ tyres which give good grip on the road. ၄။ [sing] လက္တြင္း။ the icy grip of winter ❍ people in the grip of disease/ despair/ poverty. ၅။ [C] လက္ကိုင္။ အ႐ိုး။ a tool with a wooden/ metal grip. ၆။ [C] = HAIRGRIP ၇။ [C] ( US ) ခရီးေဆာင္ လက္ဆြဲအိတ္။ a leather grip. ❏ come/ get to grips with sb [ IDM ] ဖမ္းကိုင္သည္။ She was unable to get to grips with her assailant. ❏ come/ get to grips with sth [ IDM ] ကိုင္တြယ္သည္။ ေျဖရွင္းသည္။ The voters want somebody who will come to grips with the country’s economic problems. ❏ get/ keep/ take a grip/ hold on oneself [ IDM ] ( infml ) အားတင္းသည္။ Stop panicking and get a grip on yourself! ❏ gripping adj ဆြဲေဆာင္မႈရိွေသာ။ a gripping account/ film/ story.

Examples

1. Marguerite took my hand in a surprisingly strong grip.
2. [tighten your grip] : Pete tightened his grip on her arm.
3. [release/loosen your grip] : She loosened her grip on the steering-wheel.
4. I need some winter boots with a better grip.
5. [grip on] : The President struggled to regain his grip on power.
6. The church no longer has a strong grip on the population.