Conched vs Cinched - What's the difference?
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(conch)
A marine gastropod of the family which lives in its own spiral shell.
The shell of this sea animal.
A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell.
A machine (rather like a rotating pestle and mortar) used to develop the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding; a concher or concher machine.
To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.
To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.
(cinch)
A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
* He found Andy morosely replacing some broken strands in his cinch , and he went straight at the mooted question. — B. M. Bower, The Flying U's Last Stand
(informal) Something that is very easy to do.
* "We thought we had a cinch on getting out by way of this cord and so we followed that." — Major Archibald Lee Fletcher, Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns
(informal) A firm hold.
* You've got the cinch on him. You could send him to quod, and I'd send him there as quick as lightning. I'd hang him, if I could, for what he done to Lil Sarnia. — Gilbert Parker, The World For Sale,
To bring to certain conclusion.
To tighten down.
As verbs the difference between conched and cinched
is that conched is (conch) while cinched is (cinch).conched
English
Verb
(head)conch
English
Alternative forms
* conkNoun
(en-noun)Verb
cinched
English
Verb
(head)cinch
English
Noun
(es)- No problem ... it's a cinch .