Clinched vs Clincher - What's the difference?
clinched | clincher |
(clinch)
To clasp; to interlock.
To make certain; to finalize.
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To fasten securely or permanently.
To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.
To embrace passionately.
To hold firmly; to clench.
* Dryden
To set closely together; to close tightly.
Any of several fastenings.
The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip or grasp.
(obsolete) A pun.
(nautical) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
A passionate embrace.
That which clinches; that which makes something final or firm.
:The clincher was that we couldn't wait any longer to leave, or it would get dark.
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(cycling) A tyre with a bead around the edge to attach to the rim of the wheel when inflated.
As a verb clinched
is (clinch).As a noun clincher is
that which clinches; that which makes something final or firm.clinched
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Verb
(head)clinch
English
Verb
(es)- I already planned to buy the car, but the color was what really clinched it for me.
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- Clinch the pointed spear.
- to clinch the teeth or the fist
- (Jonathan Swift)
Noun
(es)- to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon
- to secure anything by a clinch
- (Alexander Pope)
See also
* (wikipedia "clinch") * clench * clincher * clinch nutclincher
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Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Newcastle's Dan Gosling was sent off for a foul on Russell Martin but Ba fired in to cut the deficit, before Holt nodded in the clincher .}}