different between knit vs knut

English

Etymology

From Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), from Proto-Germanic *knutjan?, *knuttijan? (“to make knots, knit”). Cognate with Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta) and Northern German knütten. More at knot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophone: nit

Verb

knit (third-person singular simple present knits, present participle knitting, simple past and past participle knit or knitted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) 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.

   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.

2. (figuratively, transitive) To join closely and firmly together.

   The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 26,^[1]

     Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage

     Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit,

     To thee I send this written embassage,

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Samuel 18:1,^[2]

     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.

   • 1637, John Milton, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 6,^[3]

     Come, knit hands, and beate the ground

     In a light fantastick round.

   • 1672, Richard Wiseman, A Treatise of Wounds, London: Richard Royston,^[4]

     Nature cannot knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge.

   • 1850, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, Canto 39, p. 60,^[5]

     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;

3. (intransitive) To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
4. (intransitive) To grow together.

   All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.

5. (transitive) To combine from various elements.

   The witness knitted together his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.

6. (intransitive) Of bones: to heal following a fracture.

7. (transitive) To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act IV, Scene 1,^[6]

     When your head did but ache,

     I knit my handkercher about your brows,

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Book of Acts 10:11,^[7]

     [He] saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners […]

8. (transitive) To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act III, Scene 1,^[8]

     He knits his brow and shows an angry eye,

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• tricot
• weave

Noun

knit (plural knits)

1. A knitted garment.
2. A session of knitting.

References

• Knitting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• tink

English

Noun

knut (plural knuts)

1. (archaic, informal, Edwardian) An idle upper-class man-about-town

   Oh Hades! the Ladies who leave their wooden huts,
   For Gilbert the Filbert, the colonel of the knuts...

Synonyms

• playboy
• hedonist

References

Anagrams

• tunk

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

knut f or m (plural knutten, diminutive knutje n)

1. gnat

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

knut m (definite singular knuten, indefinite plural knuter, definite plural knutene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by knute

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

knut m (definite singular knuten, indefinite plural knutar, definite plural knutane)

1. alternative form of knute

Polish

Etymology

From Russian ???? (knut), from Old East Slavic ????? (knut?), from Old Norse knútr (“knot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knut/

Noun

knut m inan

1. knout (leather scourge)

   Synonyms: harap, nahajka

Declension

Derived terms

• knutowa?
• knutowy

Further reading

• knut in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• knut in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Knute.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knût/

Noun

kn?t m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. knout

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish kn?ter from Old Norse knútr, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (compare *knuttan-, whence English knot).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kn??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

knut c

1. knot; a looping of a piece of string
2. an exterior corner of a building

Usage notes

corner

In particular used about log cabins, but also generalized to small and medium sized buildings

Declension

Related terms

• knyta

References

• knut in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)