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Knit vs Pinch - What's the difference?

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Knit is a related term of pinch.


As verbs the difference between knit and pinch

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 pinch is to squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

As a noun pinch is

the action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

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

    *

    pinch

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
    • The children were scolded for pinching each other.
    This shoe pinches my foot.
  • To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
    • Someone has pinched my handkerchief!
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 13 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Then, as the Sunderland fans' cheers bellowed around the stadium, United's title bid was over when it became apparent City had pinched a last-gasp winner to seal their first title in 44 years.}}
  • (slang) To arrest or capture.
  • (horticulture) To cut shoots]] or [[bud, buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
  • (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
  • (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
  • (obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.
    • (Gower)
  • * Franklin
    • the wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare
  • To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
  • * Chapman
    • He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down.
  • (figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
    • to be pinched for money
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • want of room pinching a whole nation
  • To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.

    • Noun

    (es)
  • The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
  • A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
  • An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
  • * 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 171:
    • It took nerve and muscle both to carry the body out and down the stairs to the lower hall, but he damn well had to get it out of his place and away from his door, and any of those four could have done it in a pinch', and it sure was a ' pinch .
  • An organic herbal smoke additive.

    • Derived terms

    * feel the pinch * in a pinch * at a pinch * pinchy * take with a pinch of salt

    Descendants

    * Japanese: (pinchi)