Knit vs Sweater - What's the difference?
knit | sweater |
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.
(figuratively) To join closely and firmly together.
* Wiseman
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* Tennyson
To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
To grow together.
To combine from various elements.
To heal (of bones) following a fracture.
To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
* Bible, Acts x. 11
* Shakespeare
To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
* Shakespeare
A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.
A similar garment worn for warmth.
One who sweats (produces sweat).
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One who or that which causes to sweat.
*1906 , Chesterton, Charles Dickens ,
*:We learn of the cruelty of some school or child-factory from journalists; we learn it from inspectors, we learn it from doctors, we learn it even from shame-stricken schoolmasters and repentant sweaters ; but we never learn it from the children; we never learn it from the victims.
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 sweater is
a knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.knit
English
(Knitting)Verb
- 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.
- The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.
- Nature cannot knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge.
- Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit .
- Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, / In a light fantastic round.
- A link among the days, to knit / The generations each to each.
- All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.
- The witness knitted his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.
- I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit .''
- a great sheet knit at the four corners
- When your head did but ache, / I knit my handkercher about your brows.
- He knits his brow and shows an angry eye.