catch
grab
snatch
snap | the act of catching an object with the hands, Mays made the catch with his back to the plate, he made a grab for the ball before it landed, Martin's snatch at the bridle failed and the horse raced away, the infielder's snap and throw was a single motion |
| capacity | a specified function, he was employed in the capacity of director, he should be retained in his present capacity at a higher salary |
| construction | drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem, the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem |
construction
building | the act of constructing something, during the construction we had to take a detour, his hobby was the building of boats |
| road construction | the construction of roads |
| capacity | the maximum production possible, the plant is working atper cent capacity |
| construction building | the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones, their main business is home construction, workers in the building trades |
| grab | a mechanical device for gripping an object |
| grab bag | a container from which a person draws a wrapped item at random without knowing the contents |
| grab bar | a bar attached parallel to a wall to provide a handgrip for steadying yourself |
structure
construction | a thing constructed, a complex entity constructed of many parts, the structure consisted of a series of arches, she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons |
| capacity | tolerance for alcohol, he had drunk beyond his capacity |
| seating capacity | the number of people that can be seated in a vehicle or auditorium or stadium etc. |
| capacity | capability to perform or produce, among his gifts is his capacity for true altruism, limited runway capacity, a great capacity for growth |
brain
brainpower
learning ability
mental capacity
mentality
wit | mental ability, he's got plenty of brains but no common sense |
capacity
mental ability | the power to learn or retain knowledge, in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior |
construction
mental synthesis | the creation of a construct, the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought |
| grab sample | a single sample or measurement taken at a specific time or over as short a period as feasible |
construction grammatical construction
expression | a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit, I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner |
construction
twist | an interpretation of a text or action, they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct |
construction industry
housing industry | an industry that builds housing |
| grab bag | an assortment of miscellaneous items |
construction worker
hard hat | a worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc. |
capacitance
electrical capacity
capacity | an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored |
volume unit
capacity unit
capacity measure
cubage unit
cubic measure
cubic content unit
displacement unit
cubature unit | a unit of measurement of volume or capacity |
British capacity unit
Imperial capacity unit | a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System, British units are both dry and wet |
| metric capacity unit | a capacity unit defined in metric terms |
| field capacity | the maximum amount of water that a particular soil can hold |
| capacity | (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive, the capacity of a hard disk drive is usually expressed in megabytes |
| formatted capacity | (computer science) the usable capacity of a disk drive, the amount of space that is left after the sector headings and boundary definitions and timing information have been added by formatting the disk |
| unformatted capacity | (computer science) the total number of bytes on a disk including the space that will be required to format it |
capacity
content | the amount that can be contained, the gas tank has a capacity of gallons |
| vital capacity | the maximum amount of air that can be exhaled after a maximum inhalation (usually tested with a spirometer), used to determine the condition of lung tissue |
capability
capacity | the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment, the capability of a metal to be fused |
| construction paper | paper suitable for drawing and making cutouts |
| channel capacity | the maximum data rate that can be attained over a given channel |
grab
seize | capture the attention or imagination of, This story will grab you, The movie seized my imagination |
| grab | take or grasp suddenly, She grabbed the child's hand and ran out of the room |
catch
grab
take hold of | take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of, Catch the ball!, Grab the elevator door! |
| grab | make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand, The passenger grabbed for the oxygen mask |
snap up
snaffle
grab | get hold of or seize quickly and easily, I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale |
| grab | obtain illegally or unscrupulously, Grab power |