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Knit vs Bunch - What's the difference?

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Knit is a related term of bunch.


In lang=en terms the difference between knit and bunch

is that knit is to form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying while bunch is to protrude or swell.

As verbs the difference between knit and bunch

is that knit is and to turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other this can be done by hand with needles or by machine while bunch is to gather into a bunch.

As a noun bunch is

a group of a number of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.

knit

English

(Knitting)

Verb

  • and To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine.
    • to knit a stocking
    The first generation knitted''' to order; the second still '''knits''' for its own use; the next leaves '''knitting to industrial manufacturers.
  • (figuratively) To join closely and firmly together.
    • The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.
  • * Wiseman
    • Nature cannot knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit .
  • * Milton
    • Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, / In a light fantastic round.
  • * Tennyson
    • A link among the days, to knit / The generations each to each.
  • To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
  • To grow together.
    • All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.
  • To combine from various elements.
    • The witness knitted his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.
  • To heal (of bones) following a fracture.
    • I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit .''
  • To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
  • * Bible, Acts x. 11
    • a great sheet knit at the four corners
  • * Shakespeare
    • When your head did but ache, / I knit my handkercher about your brows.
  • To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He knits his brow and shows an angry eye.

    Derived terms

    * close-knit * knit one's brow / knit one's brows * knitter * knitting * knitting needle * knitwear * stick to one's knitting

    See also

    * tricot * weave

    Anagrams

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    bunch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A group of a number of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
  • :
  • *
  • *, chapter=1
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
  • (lb) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
  • An informal body of friends.
  • :
  • *
  • *:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch —the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
  • (lb) A considerable amount.
  • :
  • (lb) An unmentioned amount; a number.
  • :
  • (lb) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
  • An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
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  • (lb) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
  • An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
  • :
  • A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
  • *(Bible), (w) xxx. 6
  • *:They will carrytheir treasures upon the bunches of camels.

    • Synonyms

    * (group of similar things) cluster, group * (informal body of friends) pack, group, gang, circle * (unusual concentration of ore) ore pocket, pocket, pocket of ore, kidney, nest, nest of ore, ore bunch, bunch of ore

    Derived terms

    * buncha (bunch of)

    Verb

    (es)
  • To gather into a bunch.
  • To gather fabric into folds.
  • To form a bunch.
  • To be gathered together in folds
  • To protrude or swell
  • * Woodward
    • Bunching out into a large round knob at one end.

    Synonyms

    * (form a bunch) cluster, group

    Derived terms

    * bunch up