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Pinch vs Gripe - What's the difference?

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Pinch is a related term of gripe.


In nautical|lang=en terms the difference between pinch and gripe

is that pinch is (nautical) to sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter while gripe is (nautical) an assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between pinch and gripe

is that pinch is (obsolete) to be niggardly or covetous while gripe is (obsolete) a vulture, gyps fulvus ; the griffin.

As verbs the difference between pinch and gripe

is that pinch is to squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt while gripe is (obsolete|intransitive) to make a grab (to'', ''towards'', ''at'' or ''upon something).

As nouns the difference between pinch and gripe

is that pinch is the action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt while gripe is a complaint; a petty concern.

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
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  • (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)

    gripe

    English

    Verb

    (grip)
  • (obsolete) To make a grab (to'', ''towards'', ''at'' or ''upon something).
  • (archaic) To seize, grasp.
  • * Robynson (More's Utopia)
  • Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure?
  • To complain; to whine.
  • * {{quote-news
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  • To suffer griping pains.
  • (John Locke)
  • (nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
  • (obsolete) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
  • * Shakespeare
  • How inly sorrow gripes his soul.

    Synonyms

    * (complain) bitch, complain, whine

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A complaint; a petty concern.
  • (nautical) A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
  • (obsolete) grasp; clutch; grip
  • * Shakespeare
  • A barren sceptre in my gripe .
  • (obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
  • the gripe of a sword
  • (engineering, dated) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
  • Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress.
  • the gripe of poverty
  • (chiefly, in the plural) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
  • (nautical) The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
  • (nautical) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
  • (nautical) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.
  • (obsolete) A vulture, Gyps fulvus ; the griffin.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws.
    (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * gripe water ----