pinching

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of one who or that which pinches.
    — Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings, such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.
  2. The act of pinching off new growth.
    — Six varieties gave more shoots from the greater number of pinchings while three had more shoots when pinching was discontinued August 10.
  3. theft
    — As "Kings of the Covers," they re-recorded happening disks by Elvis ("Heartbreak Hotel") […] and, for their most publicly-known pinching, THE JAYHAWKS ("Stranded In The Jungle").
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of pinch form-of,gerund,participle,present
形容词 adj.
  1. That pinches, or causes such a sensation
    — It was one January morning, very early — a pinching, frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.

词形变化

more pinching comparative most pinching superlative pinchings plural

词汇关系

衍生词
penny-pinching
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