different between pucker vs knit
pucker
English
Etymology
Probable alteration of poke (verb, or the noun meaning "a small bag").
Verb
pucker (third-person singular simple present puckers, present participle puckering, simple past and past participle puckered)
- (transitive, intransitive) To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
- 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man".
- He had a very dark, fearsome face, and a gleam in his eyes that comes back to me in my dreams. His hair and whiskers were shot with gray, and his face was all crinkled and puckered like a withered apple.
- 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 13.
- The conduct of the white strangers it was that caused him the greatest perturbation. He puckered his brows into a frown of deep thought.
- 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man".
Derived terms
- pucker up
Translations
Noun
pucker (plural puckers)
- A fold or wrinkle.
- 1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, Chapter 3.
- The mouth was compressed, and on either side of it two tiny wrinkles had formed themselves in her cheeks. An infinity of slightly malicious amusement lurked in those little folds, in the puckers about the half-closed eyes, in the eyes themselves, bright and laughing between the narrowed lids.
- 1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, Chapter 3.
- (colloquial) A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd.
- What a pucker everything is in!" said Bathsheba, discontentedly when the child had gone. "Get away, Maryann, or go on with your scrubbing, or do something! You ought to be married by this time, and not here troubling me!"
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd.
Translations
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knit
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)
- (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.
- (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;
- (intransitive) To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
- (intransitive) To grow together.
- All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.
- (transitive) To combine from various elements.
- The witness knitted together his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.
- (intransitive) Of bones: to heal following a fracture.
- (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 […]
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act IV, Scene 1,[6]
- (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,
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act III, Scene 1,[8]
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- tricot
- weave
Noun
knit (plural knits)
- A knitted garment.
- A session of knitting.
References
- Knitting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- tink
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