Nab - English meaning

verb

Arrest (someone) for a crime.

Usage examples:

A warrant was issued but he has not been apprehended

verb

Anticipate with dread or anxiety

verb

To catch and put a person under police control; to arrest

Usage examples:

Last night police apprehended the suspect.

verb

Seize (someone) by legal authority and take them into custody.

Usage examples:

The police arrested him for possession of marijuana

noun

The action of seizing someone and taking them into custody.

Usage examples:

I have a warrant for your arrest

verb

Take into custody

noun

A woman's chest as measured around her breasts.

Usage examples:

A 36-inch bust

verb

Break, split, or burst.

Usage examples:

They bust the tunnel wide open

adjective

Damaged or broken.

Usage examples:

The vacuum cleaner's bust

verb

Take into one's possession or control by force.

Usage examples:

The island was captured by australian forces in 1914

noun

The action of capturing or of being captured.

Usage examples:

The capture of the city

verb

Intercept and hold (something which has been thrown, propelled, or dropped).

Usage examples:

She threw the bottle into the air and caught it again

noun

An act of catching something, typically a ball.

Usage examples:

I saw myself fumbling easy catches and looking clumsy.

verb

Take hold of so as to seize or stop the motion of

noun

The part around the neck of a shirt, blouse, jacket or coat, either upright or turned over.

Usage examples:

A shirt collar

verb

Put a collar on (an animal).

Usage examples:

The animal had been captured, collared, and released by federal researchers

verb

A band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over

noun

A police officer.

Usage examples:

A cop in a patrol car gave chase

verb

Catch or arrest (an offender).

Usage examples:

He was copped for speeding

noun

A conical mass of thread wound on to a spindle.

noun

A small metal spike with a broadened flat head, driven into wood to join things together or to serve as a hook.

Usage examples:

Don't try and hammer nails into the ceiling joists

verb

A medieval measure of length for cloth, equal to 2 1/4 inches.

verb

A thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener

noun

A small cut or notch.

Usage examples:

A small nick on his wrist

verb

Make a nick or nicks in.

Usage examples:

He had nicked himself while shaving

verb

Go quickly or surreptitiously.

Usage examples:

They nicked across the road

verb

Try to influence or thwart by underhand or unfair methods.

Usage examples:

An attempt to nobble the jury

verb

To make something fail, especially to make a horse in a race fail by giving it drugs

Usage examples:

The jury who convicted him were suspected of being nobbled., he nobbled her in the corridor to sign…

collocation

Take and lift upward

phrasal verb

Take hold of and lift or move someone or something.

Usage examples:

I reached out and picked up a magazine

phrasal verb

Go somewhere to collect someone, typically in one's car.

Usage examples:

Will you pick the children up from school?

verb

Grip (something, typically a person's flesh) tightly and sharply between finger and thumb.

Usage examples:

She pinched his cheek

noun

An act of pinching someone.

Usage examples:

He gave her a gentle pinch

verb

Squeeze tightly between the fingers

idiom

Get or bring together

phrasal verb

(of a vehicle) move to the side of or off the road.

Usage examples:

He pulled in at the kerb

phrasal verb

Succeed in securing or obtaining something.

Usage examples:

The party pulled in 10 per cent of the vote

phrasal verb

(of a quality, trait, or condition) be common or inherent in members of a family, especially over several generations.

Usage examples:

Weight problems run in my family

phrasal verb

Arrest someone.

Usage examples:

I'm going to have to run you in

phrasal verb

Use something new in such a way as not to make maximum demands upon it.

Usage examples:

Whatever system you choose, you must run it in properly

verb

Take hold of suddenly and forcibly.

Usage examples:

She jumped up and seized his arm

verb

Take hold of; grab

verb

To take something quickly and hold it

Usage examples:

He seized her arm to lead her through the crowd., fig. while she was distracted, i seized the oppor…

phrasal verb

Provide with shelter

verb

To move something or someone from one place to another

Usage examples:

Please, take me with you!, it may rain, so take your umbrella., the suitcases were taken to madrid …

verb

To subtract one number or amount from another

Usage examples:

Take sth from sth you'll need to take $2,000 from the $8,000 to allow for tax., take sth/sb off (st…