Pucker vs Knit - What's the difference?
pucker | knit | Related terms |
To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
A fold or wrinkle.
A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
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
Pucker is a related term of knit.
As verbs the difference between pucker and knit
is that pucker is to pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold while 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 pucker
is a fold or wrinkle.pucker
English
Verb
(en verb)- 1914' ''The conduct of the white strangers it was that caused him the greatest perturbation. He '''puckered his brows into a frown of deep thought.'' — Edgar Rice Burroughs, ''Tarzan of the Apes ,
Chapter 13.
- 1893' ''He had a very dark, fearsome face, and a gleam in his eyes that comes back to me in my dreams. His hair and whiskers were shot with gray, and his face was all crinkled and '''puckered like a withered apple. — Arthur Conan Doyle,
"The Adventure of the Crooked Man".
Derived terms
* pucker upNoun
(en noun)- 1921' ''The mouth was compressed, and on either side of it two tiny wrinkles had formed themselves in her cheeks. An infinity of slightly malicious amusement lurked in those little folds, in the '''puckers about the half-closed eyes, in the eyes themselves, bright and laughing between the narrowed lids. — Aldous Huxley, ''Crome Yellow ,
Chapter 3.
- 1874' ''"What a '''pucker everything is in!" said Bathsheba, discontentedly when the child had gone. "Get away, Maryann, or go on with your scrubbing, or do something! You ought to be married by this time, and not here troubling me!"'' — Thomas Hardy, ''
Far From the Madding Crowd.
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.
