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entwine
English
Alternative forms
- (archaic) intwine
Etymology
From en- +? twine (verb).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?twa?n/
- (General American) enPR: ?n-tw?n?, IPA(key): /??n?twa?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
- Hyphenation: en?twine
Verb
entwine (third-person singular simple present entwines, present participle entwining, simple past and past participle entwined)
- To twist or twine around something (or one another).
Usage notes
Particularly used in attributive form entwined.
Often used interchangeably with intertwine, with minor usage distinctions. In symmetric sense of two things twining around each other, such as the branches of two trees, narrower intertwine may be preferred, but these are not strictly distinguished. In asymmetric sense of one thing twined in or around another β rather than mutually β such as a vine twined around a tree (but tree not twined around the vine), entwined is preferred.
Synonyms
- (twine around one another): intertwine
Derived terms
- entwinement (noun)
- entwining (noun)
- entwining (adj)
Translations
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clinch
English
Etymology
16th-century alteration of clench.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kl?nt?/
- Rhymes: -?nt?
Verb
clinch (third-person singular simple present clinches, present participle clinching, simple past and past participle clinched)
- To clasp; to interlock. [from 1560s]
- To make certain; to finalize. [from 1716]
- To fasten securely or permanently.
- To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed. [17th century]
- To embrace passionately.
- To hold firmly; to clench.
- To set closely together; to close tightly.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Duty of Servants at Inns
- try if the heads of the nails be fast, and whether they be well clinched
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Duty of Servants at Inns
Synonyms
- (fasten securely): attach, join, put together; see also Thesaurus:join
- (hold firmly): clasp, grasp, grip; See also Thesaurus:grasp
Translations
Noun
clinch (plural clinches)
- Any of several fastenings.
- The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip or grasp.
- (obsolete) A pun.
- (nautical) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
- A passionate embrace.
- 2015, Judith Arnold, Moondance
- More likely, he was letting her know that his visit this morning was not going to end in a clinchβor something steamier. It was going to be about sitting at a table, drinking coffee and talking.
- 2015, Judith Arnold, Moondance
- In combat sports, the act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engage in standup grappling.
Translations
See also
- clinch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- clench
- clincher
- clinch nut
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