Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To seize (a fugitive or wrongdoer); arrest.
- transitive verb To grab; snatch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To catch or seize suddenly or by a sudden thrust and grasp
- noun The summit of a mountain or rock; any piece of rising ground: same as
knob . - noun The cock of a gun-lock.
- noun A projecting box screwed to the jamb of a door, or to one door of a pair, to receive the latch or bolt, or both, of a rim-lock.
- noun A hat; a head-covering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb colloq. To catch or seize suddenly or unexpectedly.
- transitive verb To capture; to arrest.
- noun Prov. Eng. The summit of an eminence.
- noun (Firearms) The cock of a gunlock.
- noun (Locksmithing) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
seize ,arrest or take intocustody acriminal orfugitive - verb transitive To
grab orsnatch something
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb tag the base runner to get him out
- verb take into custody
- verb seize suddenly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The word nabî 'expresses more especially a function.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Once the gas has been pumped and the windows washed, the creatures want to be paid and the only thing they can nab from the guy that’s of value is the camera he’d been snapping pictures of them with.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2002
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Von Hoff and his team also are conducting clinical trials that combine gemcitabine with another anti-cancer drug called nab-paclitaxel.
azcentral.com | news 2010
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The company's portfolio includes chemotherapeutic compound (ABRAXANE), which is based on the company's proprietary tumor targeting technology known as the nab® platform.
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(ABRAXANE) which is based on its proprietary tumor targeting system known as the nab ™
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The company's portfolio includes the world's first and only protein-bound nanoparticle chemotherapeutic compound (ABRAXANE®), which is based on the company's proprietary tumor targeting technology known as the nab® platform.
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The company's portfolio includes the world's first and only protein-bound nanoparticle chemotherapeutic compound (ABRAXANE), which is based on the company's proprietary tumor targeting technology known as the nab® platform.
unknown title 2009
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The company's portfolio includes the world's first and only protein-bound nanoparticle chemotherapeutic compound (ABRAXANE), which is based on the company's proprietary tumor targeting technology known as the nab® platform.
GEN News Highlights 2009
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The company's portfolio includes the world's first and only protein-bound nanoparticle chemotherapeutic compound (ABRAXANE®), which is based on the company's proprietary tumor targeting technology known as the nab® platform.
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The company's portfolio includes the world's first and only protein-bound nanoparticle chemotherapeutic compound (ABRAXANE), which is based on the company's proprietary tumor targeting technology known as the nab® platform.
unknown title 2009
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