knit
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic *knutjaną, *knuttijaną (“to make knots, knit”).
Cognate with Low German knütten and Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta). More at knot.
Inflected forms:
form: knits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: knitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: knit
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: knit
pos: verb
tags: past
form: knitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: knitted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: knits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: to knit a stocking
The first generation knitted to order; the second still knits for its own use; the next leaves knitting to industrial manufacturers.
I knitted swatches in a cable pattern to see how the different hapazome tachniques and yarn weights affected the appearance of the cables.
gloss: To create a stitch by pulling the working yarn through an existing stitch from back to front.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Stitches that are knitted look like little V’s when seen from the front.
gloss: To join closely and firmly together.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.
Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit,
To thee I send this written embassage,
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Come, knit hands, and beate the ground
In a light fantastick round.
Nature cannot knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge.
Her office there to rear, to teach,
Becoming as is meet and fit
A link among the days, to knit
The generations each with each;
gloss: To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To grow together.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.
gloss: To combine from various elements.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The witness knitted together his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.
gloss: To heal following a fracture.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit.
gloss: To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows,
[He] saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners […]
gloss: To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But meet him now, and be it in the Morne, / When euery one will giue the time of day, / He knits his Brow and ſhewes an angry Eye, / And paſſeth by with ſtiffe vnbowed Knee, / Diſdaining dutie that to vs belongs.
gloss: A knitted garment.
pos: noun
examples: There are grey Grecian tops and a light, sheer, silver cardigan. Stylish dark grey tailored trousers, silver thongs and shiny jet-black stilettos. Black sheer blouses with squared bib fronts, and expensive-looking black and dark grey woollen knits.
gloss: A session of knitting.
pos: noun
examples: It's always time for a bit of a knit.
Related words: tricot
weave
Derived words: beknit
close-knit
enknit
handknit
inknit
interknit
knitaholic
knitalong
knitathon
knitback
knitbone
knit cap
knit fog
knitlike
knit one's brow
knit one's brows
knit one's eyebrows
knitster
knittability
knittable
knitten
knitter
knitting
knitting needle
knit together
knit up
knitwear
knitwise
knitwork
knit yoghurt
loose-knit
misknit
outknit
reknit
stick to one's knitting
tight-knit
tightknit
unknit
well-knit
double knit
warp knit
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