pinch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
  2. A close compression of anything with the fingers.
    — I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.
  3. 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.
  4. 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:
  5. A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
  6. An organic herbal smoke additive.
  7. A magnetic compression of an electrically conducting filament.
  8. 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.
  9. An arrest. slang
  10. A steep incline; a very steep section of road. Australia,New-Zealand
    — Down several steep pinches the lubra went sprawling[.]
动词 v.
  1. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
    — The children were scolded for pinching each other.
  2. 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. 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. Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots. intransitive
    — With their jock-straps pinching, they slouch to attention While queueing for sarnies at the office canteen.
  5. To steal, usually something inconsequential. slang,transitive
    — Someone has pinched my handkerchief!
  6. To arrest or capture. slang,transitive
  7. To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
  8. To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
  9. To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
  10. To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly. intransitive,obsolete
    — There was with him none other fare, But for to pinche and for to spare
  11. To seize; to grip; to bite.
    — He [the hound] pinch'd and pull'd her down.
  12. To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve. figuratively
    — to be pinched for money
  13. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
  14. To complain or find fault. obsolete
    — 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,

词形变化

pinches present,singular,third-person pinching participle,present pinched participle,past pinched past pinches plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English pinchen, from Old Northern French *pinchier (compare Old French pincier, pincer (“to pinch”)), a word of uncertain origin, possibly from Vulgar Latin *pinciāre (“to puncture, pinch”), from a merger of *punctiāre (“to puncture, sting”), from Latin punctiō (“a puncture, prick”) and *piccāre (“to strike, sting”), from Frankish *pikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (“to pick, peck, prick”). More at point, pick and pitch.
词源 2
From Middle English pinchen, from Old Northern French *pinchier (compare Old French pincier, pincer (“to pinch”)), a word of uncertain origin, possibly from Vulgar Latin *pinciāre (“to puncture, pinch”), from a merger of *punctiāre (“to puncture, sting”), from Latin punctiō (“a puncture, prick”) and *piccāre (“to strike, sting”), from Frankish *pikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (“to pick, peck, prick”). More at point, pick and pitch.
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