Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word INCH
INCH
Definitions of INCH
- To drive by inches, or small degrees.
- To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
- An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, roughly the width of a thumb.
- Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
- A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
- (figuratively) Any very short distance.
- (meteorology) A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
- (intransitive, followed by a preposition) To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
- (Scotland, Ireland) A small island#Noun; an islet#Noun.
- (Scotland, Ireland) A meadow#Noun, pasture#Noun, field#Noun, or haugh#Noun.
- (Hong Kong, colloquial) cocky and cheeky
- (Hong Kong, colloquial) to burn (to insult); to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner
- A town in Wexford, Ireland.
Number of letters
4
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using INCH in a Sentence
- The Downward Spiral is the second studio album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on March 8, 1994, by Nothing Records in the United States and Island Records in Europe.
- Derived from the Roman uncia ("twelfth"), the word inch is also sometimes used to translate similar units in other measurement systems, usually understood as deriving from the width of the human thumb.
- Manometric units such as the centimetre of water, millimetre of mercury, and inch of mercury are used to express pressures in terms of the height of column of a particular fluid in a manometer.
- It is often quantified numerically using SI derived units (such as the cubic metre and litre) or by various imperial or US customary units (such as the gallon, quart, cubic inch).
- September – Battle of the North Inch ("Battle of the Thirty"): In a mass trial by combat on the North Inch of Perth, Scotland, the Clan Cameron defeat the Clan Mackintosh.
- Didot's system was based on Pierre Simon Fournier's (1712–1768), but Didot modified Fournier's by adjusting the base unit precisely to a French Royal inch (pouce), as Fournier's unit was based on a less common foot.
- Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN, stylized as NIИ, is an American industrial rock band formed in Cleveland in 1988.
- This can cause confusion since in the United States, "mil" traditionally means a thousandth of an inch.
- The bridge, which has a 10 foot 6 inch height restriction, was damaged again on November 20, 2023, this time by a 13 feet 4 inches tall semi-trailer which got stuck in the bridge and allegedly caused further damage by attempting to back out after being stuck.
- A farm called Goodmath is recorded on the Chapman and Andre 1 inch to one mile map of Essex from 1777.
- The Minnesota state record for latest measurable snowfall was recorded in Mizpah on June 4, 1935 when the town received an inch and a half of snowfall.
- On April 8, 1908, with all members voting yes, that sidewalks be constructed of planks at least 1 3/4 inch in thickness, or shall be of cement construction, and shall be eight feet in width, and properly supported, and be constructed at such grades as shall be approved by the street commissioner.
- Royal Recorders (formerly Shade Tree Studios) was a Lake Geneva music recording studio where artists such as Ministry, Cheap Trick, Queensrÿche, Crash Test Dummies, Nine Inch Nails, and Skid Row recorded albums.
- His observations of "Baily's Beads", during an annular eclipse of the Sun on 15 May 1836, at Inch Bonney in Roxburghshire, started the modern series of eclipse expeditions.
- He came to prominence as the founder, lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and primary songwriter of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails.
- Nothing Records is most famous for its two original signings, Trent Reznor's own band Nine Inch Nails, and Marilyn Manson.
- Following the departure of keyboardist John Bechdel in 1995, electronic contributions would be managed by Charlie Clouser of Nine Inch Nails.
- Hall, Flakus, and Sellers later recruited Chris Vrenna (Nine Inch Nails) on drums to replace Negrette, as Hall had met Vrenna when playing in Die Warzau.
- In the United States it is expressed in hundredths of an inch; in the United Kingdom in thousandths; and elsewhere in millimeters.
- In 1769, the King's Inch was purchased by Glasgow tobacco merchant Alexander Speirs, who demolished Inch Castle in order to build a country mansion, Elderslie House.
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