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Knit vs Snit - What's the difference?

knit | snit |

As a verb 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.

As a noun snit is

a temper; a lack of patience; a bad mood.

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

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    snit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A temper; a lack of patience; a bad mood.
    • He's in a snit because he got passed over for promotion.
  • A U.S. unit of volume for liquor equal to 2 jiggers, 3 U.S. fluid ounces, or 88.7 milliliters.
  • (US, dialect) A beer chaser commonly served in three-ounce servings in highball or juice glasses with a Bloody Mary cocktail in the upper midwest states of United States including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Illinois.
    • The bartender served us each a snit with our Bloody Marys this morning.

    See also

    * snitty * snit fit

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