pinch

[Pinch]

To pinch is to sharply squeeze or grip with your fingers. No matter how much you love your grandma, you probably don't enjoy it when she pinches your cheek and tells you how tall you've gotten.

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To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.

Noun
the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"

Noun
a squeeze with the fingers

Noun
small sharp biting

Noun
a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action; "he never knew what to do in an emergency"

Noun
a slight but appreciable addition; "this dish could use a touch of garlic"

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Noun
an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed

Noun
a painful or straitened circumstance; "the pinch of the recession"

Verb
irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear; "smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth"; "the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back"

Verb
cut the top off; "top trees and bushes"

Verb
squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle"

Verb
make ridges into by pinching together

Verb
make off with belongings of others


v. t.
To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.

v. t.
o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.

v. t.
To plait.

v. t.
Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.

v. t.
To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.

v. i.
To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.

v. i.
To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.

v. i.
To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.

n.
A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.

n.
As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.

n.
Pian; pang.

n.
A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.


Pinch

Pinch , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pinched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pinching.] [F. pincer, probably fr. OD. pitsen to pinch; akin to G. pfetzen to cut, pinch; perhaps of Celtic origin. Cf. Piece.] 1. To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies. 2. o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals. [Obs.]
He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down.
3. To plait. [Obs.]
Full seemly her wimple ipinched was.
4. Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.
Want of room . . . pinching a whole nation.
5. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.

Pinch

Pinch, v. i. 1. To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches." 2. (Hunt.) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does. [Obs.] 3. To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous. Gower.
The wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare.
To pinch at, to find fault with; to take exception to. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pinch

Pinch, n. 1. A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip. 2. As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff. 3. Pian; pang. "Necessary's sharp pinch." Shak. 4. A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar. At a pinch, On a pinch, in an emergency; as, he could on a pinch read a little Latin.

To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.

To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches." 2. (Hunt.)

A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.

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Usage Examples

You get moments all the time that kind of make you pinch yourself, some of them make you quite emotional. Winning a BRIT was a big moment because we were just so excited to be at the awards in the first place. Selling out Madison Square Garden was pretty amazing too. Then we woke to the news that our UK tour was sold out. It was crazy.

Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty, with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store, because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them.

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Other Usage Examples

I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level.

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?

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