Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word HITCH

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Definitions of HITCH

1. A sudden pull.
2. A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
3. A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.
4. Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
5. (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
6. (military, slang) A period of time spent in the military.
7. A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.
8. (transitive) To pull with a jerk.
9. (transitive) To attach, tie or fasten.
10. (informal) To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
11. (informal, transitive) Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
12. (intransitive) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
13. (intransitive) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
14. (intransitive, UK) To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
15. A given names surname from given names.
16. (informal) Alfred Hitchcock
17. (mining) A hole cut into the wall of a mine on which timbers are rested.

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Examples of Using HITCH in a Sentence

• Practical knots are classified by function, including hitches, bends, loop knots, and splices: a hitch fastens a rope to another object; a bend fastens two ends of a rope to each another; a loop knot is any knot creating a loop; and splice denotes any multi-strand knot, including bends and loops.
• Along with the sheet bend and the clove hitch, the bowline is often considered one of the most essential knots.
• The overhand knot is one of the most fundamental knots, and it forms the basis of many others, including the simple noose, overhand loop, angler's loop, reef knot, fisherman's knot, half hitch, and water knot.
• It is made similarly to a clove hitch but with one end passed under the other, forming an overhand knot under a riding turn.
• The clove hitch is an ancient type of knot, made of two successive single hitches tied around an object.
• The advantages of this hitch over others which might serve the purpose are its quickness of tying and ease of releasing.
• Some common types of hitch knots include the clove hitch, the timber hitch, and the round turn and two half-hitches.
• It is functionally similar to the trucker's hitch; however, unlike the trucker's hitch, the versatackle is self-locking under tension.
• Although similar in finished appearance to the double bowline, the water bowline is formed with a clove hitch as the loop in the standing part of the rope.
• It is made by tying a rolling hitch around the standing part after passing around an anchor object.
• Portable classroom, a temporary classroom for schools with insufficient building capacity - not technically a trailer due to lack of wheels or hitch.
• Their best-known songs include "More Than a Feeling", "Peace of Mind", "Foreplay/Long Time", "Rock and Roll Band", "Smokin'", "Don't Look Back", "A Man I'll Never Be", "Hitch a Ride", "Party", "Amanda" and "Feelin' Satisfied".
• The binding itself is tightened as the meat cooks by sliding the buntline hitch on the standing part.
• The pile hitch is a kind of hitch, which is a knot used for attaching rope to a pole or other structure.
• The smaller rope should be pulled to the left while the bight should go through the final tuck to form the final product of a sailor's hitch.
• For stability when towing or lowering long items, the addition of a half-hitch in front of the timber hitch creates a timber hitch and a half hitch, when at sea.
• The firm also pressed, under contract, records for record labels such as Autograph, Rainbow, Hitch, Our Song, and Vaughn.
• With heavy loads, it is important to have made enough bights and turns to reduce force on the final turns or a hitch—otherwise, it will be difficult to untie (a hitch) or may slip.
• Mel Collins: saxophone for the last 6 dates* (toured with Waters on The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking and Radio Kaos tours).
• Guitarist David Gilmour expressed feelings about his strained relationship with Waters on his second solo album, About Face (1984), and finished the accompanying tour as Waters began touring to promote his debut solo album, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking.
• They were invited by David Frost to appear in his new show, The Frost Report, with John Cleese, but the pair's big break came when they filled in, unprepared and unscripted, for eleven minutes during a technical hitch at a British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards ceremony at the London Palladium in 1971.
• In January 2024, A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration, an anthology of Christopher Hitchens writings between 1983 and 2002 for The London Review of Books, was published.
• The Ultimates is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics and created by writer Mark Millar and artist Bryan Hitch, which first started publication from The Ultimates #1 (cover date March 2002), as part of the company's Ultimate Marvel imprint.
• The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking is the debut solo studio album by Roger Waters, bassist/songwriter and co-founder of English rock band Pink Floyd; it was released in 1984.
• As the frame against which this rope toggle is nipped is entirely parts of the knot (and not depending upon proximity to the hitched object), this revision avoids the capsizing vulnerability of the highwayman's hitch.

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