apprehension
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
apprehension
- (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.
- 2006, Phil Senter, "Comparison of Forelimb Function between Deinonychus and Babiraptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridea)", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 26, no. 4 (Dec.), p. 905:
- The wing would have been a severe obstruction to apprehension of an object on the ground.
- 2006, Phil Senter, "Comparison of Forelimb Function between Deinonychus and Babiraptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridea)", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 26, no. 4 (Dec.), p. 905:
- (legal) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
- perception; the act of understanding using one's intellect without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment
- 1815, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "On Life," in A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays (1840 edition):
- We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life.
- 1815, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "On Life," in A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays (1840 edition):
- Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
- The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
- Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.
- (anticipation of unfavorable things) alarm
- (act of grasping with the intellect) awareness, sense
- See also Thesaurus:apprehension
- German: Auffassung, Begreifen, Verstehen, Erfassung
- Portuguese: apreensão
- Russian: понима́ние
- German: Idee, Vorstellung, Ansicht, Meinung, Ahnung, Auffassung, Begriff
- Russian: мне́ние
- German: Verstand, Verständnis, Auffassungsgabe, Fassungskraft, Auffassungskraft, Fassungsgabe
- Russian: понима́ние
- German: Befürchtung, Besorgnis, Vorahnung, Angst, Furcht, Sorge, Bangigkeit, Besorgtheit, Bedenklichkeit
- Portuguese: apreensão
- Russian: опасе́ние
- Spanish: aprensión
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