pinch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

   “The children were scolded for pinching each other.”

2. fiil To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.

   “He took the plate in his hand, holding it between thumb and forefinger at one corner, letting it hang down. With the other hand he pinched it at the opposite corner, pressing thumb and forefinger together tightly.”

3. fiil To squeeze between two objects.

   “Since the resistance of the channel is inversely proportional to its width, the most resistive region is the one pinched between the gates where they come closest to each other.”

4. fiil Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.

   “With their jock-straps pinching, they slouch to attention While queueing for sarnies at the office canteen.”

5. fiil To steal, usually something inconsequential.

   “Someone has pinched my handkerchief!”

6. fiil To arrest or capture.
7. fiil To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
8. fiil To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
9. fiil To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
10. fiil To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.

    “There was with him none other fare, But for to pinche and for to spare”

11. fiil To seize; to grip; to bite.

    “He [the hound] pinch'd and pull'd her down.”

12. fiil To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.

    “to be pinched for money”

13. fiil To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
14. fiil To complain or find fault.

    “Therefore who so them accuse Of any double entencion, To speake, rowne, other to muse, To pinch at their condicion, All is but false collusion, I dare rightwell the sothe express, They have no better protection,”

15. isim The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
16. isim A close compression of anything with the fingers.

    “I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.”

17. isim A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.

    “Mix about four cups of white flour with a pinch of salt.”

18. isim An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.

    “And wel his merits ſhew him to be made His Fortunes maiſter, and the king of men. That could perſwade at ſuch a ſodaine pinch, With reaſons of his valour and his life, A thouſand ſworne and ouer-matching foes:”

19. isim A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
20. isim An organic herbal smoke additive.
21. isim A magnetic compression of an electrically conducting filament.
22. isim The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.

    “It looked like an hourglass, but all those little glittering shapes tumbling through the pinch were seconds.”

23. isim An arrest.
24. isim A steep incline; a very steep section of road.

    “Down several steep pinches the lubra went sprawling[.]”