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gripe 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/grīp/,
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griping, present participle; griped, past participle; gripes, 3rd person singular present; griped, past tense;
  1. Express a complaint or grumble about something, esp. something trivial
    • - they gripe about the busywork
    • - “Holidays make no difference to Simon,” Pat griped
  2. Distress; annoy
    • - there's something griping you
  3. Affect with gastric or intestinal pain
    • - it gripes my belly like a green apple
    • - then the griping pains started
  4. Grasp tightly; clutch
    • - Hilyard griped his dagger
  5. Secure (a boat) with gripes

  6. (of a ship) Turn to face the wind in spite of the helm

Noun
  1. A complaint, esp. a trivial one
    • - his biggest gripe is that he has lost his sense of privacy
  2. Gastric or intestinal pain; colic

  3. An act of grasping tightly

  4. Lashings securing a boat in its place on deck or in davits

  1. complain; "What was he hollering about?"
  2. informal terms for objecting; "I have a gripe about the service here"
  3. (griping) colic: acute abdominal pain (especially in infants)
  4. Arena Gripe is an indoor sporting arena located in Split, Croatia. It is part of Sport Recreation Center (SRC). It features two halls. The capacity of the lesser arena is 3,500 people. The seating capacity of the larger one is 6,000. It is currently home to the KK Split basketball team. ...
  5. A gripe is a simple form of clamp used in building a clinker boat, for temporarily holding the strake which is being fitted onto the one to which it is to be attached. ...
  6. A complaint; a petty concern; The name of a specific wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems; To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something); To seize, grasp; To complain; to whine
  7. (Griping) The action of grip[p]ing, clutching, grasping, or seizing tenaciously, especially with the hands, arms, claws, and the like.
  8. A mechanical problem on an aircraft. An “up” gripe means you can still fly, a “down” gripe means you can’t.
  9. (264) [Archaic] to grasp or clutch; to distress; oppress; afflict.
  10. A sailing vessel gripes when, by poor design or imbalance of sail, it tends to end up with its bow into the wind when sailing close-hauled. The sails flap around, forward progress is halted and she is very hard to steer. On land, the term means to complain, complain, complain.
  11. Mechanical issue with a spacecraft. 'Out' Gripes are ones which do not prohibit flight operations. 'In' gripes are ones which do.
  12. TFD: To have sharp pains in the bowels.
  13. a very abnormal tendency for a boat to turn into the wind
  14. To carry too much weather helm.
  15. Medieval name for Griffin.