Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word PINCH
PINCH
Definitions of PINCH
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- 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.
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- (intransitive) Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
- (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
- (horticulture) To cut shoots or 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, intransitive) To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.
- (of animals) To seize; to grip; to bite.
- (figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
- (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
- (slang) An arrest.
Number of letters
5
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using PINCH in a Sentence
- In those scyphozoans that have the larval planula metamorphose into a polyp, the polyp, also called a "scyphistoma," grows until it develops a stack of plate-like medusae that pinch off and swim away in a process known as strobilation.
- Upper level cyclones can exist without the presence of a surface low, and can pinch off from the base of the tropical upper tropospheric trough during the summer months in the Northern Hemisphere.
- Informal measurements such as a "pinch", a "drop", or a "hint" (soupçon) continue to be used from time to time.
- Where the drum is pinched between two shoes, similar to a conventional disc brake, it is sometimes called a pinch drum brake, though such brakes are relatively rare.
- According to the 2001 book The Dedalus Book of Absinthe, it was made by combining gin with a pinch of DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), an insecticide that would later be banned in most countries; consumers of this concoction reportedly claimed that its effects were similar to absinthe.
- Geraldine Pinch suggests that Mehet-Weret was also 'probably' the Milky Way in the night sky, to correspond with her identification as the celestial waters travelled by the solar barque.
- To take something with a "grain of salt" or "pinch of salt" is an English idiom that suggests to view something, specifically claims that may be misleading or unverified, with skepticism or not to interpret something literally.
- George Shuba, Major League Baseball outfielder and pinch hitter, remembered for breaking down the league color barrier by shaking hands with Jackie Robinson.
- Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority or KRT provides bus services north through Pinch to Elkview and Clendenin or South through Pinch to Charleston, and from there to several other places throughout the Kanawha Valley.
- "I'm in the Mood for Love" Introduced by Darla Hood in a clubhouse and Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer on a radio in the Our Gang (Little Rascals) short, The Pinch Singer (1936).
- The neural folds pinch in towards the midline of the embryo and fuse together to form the neural tube.
- It is a toroidal pinch that uses a unique magnetic field configuration as a scheme to magnetically confine a plasma, primarily to study magnetic confinement fusion.
- A starting pitcher who is replaced by a pinch hitter in the final half inning of a game will still be credited with a complete game.
- Baldelli ended up appearing in 28 games for the Rays in 2008, mainly as a DH and pinch hitter but occasionally playing in right or left field.
- If a team does not begin a game with a DH, the team's pitchers (or pinch hitters) must bat for the entire game.
- Whitt was selected in the 15th round of the 1972 amateur draft by the Boston Red Sox, and he made his major league debut on September 12, 1976, pinch hitting for Carlton Fisk in the seventh inning, grounding out.
- At the 2022 Congressional Baseball Game for charity, Linda Sanchez was pulled for a pinch runner, and while making her way back to the Democratic dugout, Sanchez flipped off the Republican dugout.
- Shot in medium close-up, the film shows Ott seemingly taking a pinch of snuff causing him to sneeze.
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- He was replaced by pinch runner Freddy Guzman for the 2009 American League Championship Series, but returned to the roster for the World Series.
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