Sekirov Dictionary

pinch

/pɪnt͡ʃ/

verb 14
noun 10
forms 3
phrases 8

verb14

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To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- The children were scolded for pinching each other.
- This shoe pinches my foot.
To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
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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. — 2012
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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. — 1972
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(slang) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- Someone has pinched my handkerchief!
(slang) To arrest or capture.
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(figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- to be pinched for money
To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
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To seize; to grip; to bite.
- He [the hound] pinch'd and pull'd her down. — 1614
To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
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(no longer used) To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.
- There was with him none other fare, But for to pinche and for to spare — 1857
(no longer used) To complain or find fault.

noun10

The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
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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.
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A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.
An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
(slang) An arrest.
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(Australia, New-Zealand) A steep incline; a very steep section of road.
- Down several steep pinches the lubra went sprawling[.] — 1937
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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. — 2001
A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
A magnetic compression of an electrically conducting filament.
An organic herbal smoke additive.

forms

pinched · pinching · pinches

Phrases with pinch

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