grasp

verb

1. To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.

   “How few! yet how they creep / Through my fingers to the deep, / While I weep—while I weep! / O God! can I not grasp / Them with a tighter clasp?”

2. To understand.

   “I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity.”

3. To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance.

noun

1. (figuratively, sometimes)Grip.

   “A vagrant gust of wind snatched the note from my grasp.”

   “in the tyrant's grasp”

   “What the anvil? what dread grasp. Dare its deadly terrors clasp!”

   “Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.”

   “If a mirror does slip from your grasp, do not attempt to catch it. Just get out of the way.”

2. Understanding.

   “There is for the mind but one grasp of happiness: from that uppermost pinnacle of wisdom, whence we see that this world is well designed.”

3. That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.

   “The goal is within my grasp.”

name

1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns (or Principles).
2. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Gamepedia Rapid Anti-Spam Patrol.