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say it: grasp
grasp is a noun and verb meaning "understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something". It carries 6 recorded senses.
understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
“he has a good grasp of accounting practices”
the limit of capability
“within the compass of education”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for grasp come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.