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Pinch vs Clasp - What's the difference?

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Pinch is a related term of clasp.


As verbs the difference between pinch and clasp

is that pinch is to squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt while clasp is to take hold of; to grasp; to grab tightly.

As nouns the difference between pinch and clasp

is that pinch is the action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt while clasp is a fastener or , particularly one that clasps.

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)

    clasp

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fastener or , particularly one that clasps.
    • I always have a hard time working the clasp on this necklace!
  • (in the singular) An embrace, a grasp, or handshake.
    • He took her hand in a firm clasp .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take hold of; to grasp; to grab tightly.
    • They clasped hands and parted as friends.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit) :
    • And when the Boy dropped off to sleep, the Rabbit would snuggle down close under his little warm chin and dream, with the Boy's hands clasped close round him all night long.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21:
    • The poor dear lady shivered, and I could see the tension of her nerves as she clasped her husband closer to her and bent her head lower and lower still on his breast.
  • To shut or fasten together with, or as if with, a clasp.

    • Related terms

    * enclasp

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