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Inch
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- 1 cocky and cheeky Hong-Kong, colloquial
"I still remember Donald Duck sit next to him after NG dog being 'Done'd to F.2 building... he is still very Inch in Year 1983-4 teaching me RS"
- 1 A town in County Wexford, Ireland.
- 1 An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, conceived as roughly the width of a thumb.
"The sledges of the Esquimaux are of large size, varying from six and a half to nine and even eleven feet in length, and from eighteen inches to two feet in breadth."
- 2 A small island; an islet. Ireland, Scotland
"The blackening wave is edged with white; / To inch and rock the sea-mews fly."
- 3 a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot wordnet
- 4 Any very short distance. figuratively
"Don't move an inch!"
- 5 A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh. Ireland, Scotland
"An ivy-clad farmhouse surrounded by trees, it stood on the sunny side of a sloping hill at the foot of which the Darigle river curved its way through gold-furzed inches to disappear under a stone bridge into the woods beyond."
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- 6 a unit of measurement for advertising space wordnet
- 7 Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
- 8 A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
"Let us consider what one inch of rain really means. If an acre of land were covered with water to the depth of only the tenth part of an inch, that layer of water would weigh more than 10 tons: thus 1 inch of rain is ten times that amount—in fact, very nearly 101 tons."
- 9 A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
- 1 To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction). intransitive
"Fearful of falling, he inched along the window ledge."
- 2 to burn (to insult); to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner Hong-Kong, colloquial
"Sorry for changing the intention of the post last time; it was for nothing but the personal joy and satisfaction of "inch"-ing the person who criticized my writing while he/she can't even write. (no hard feelings, alright?!) I'd avoid that in the future. I'll try to make this a constructive discussion and be as objective as possible."
- 3 advance slowly, as if by inches wordnet
- 4 To drive by inches, or small degrees.
"He gets too far into the soldier's grace / And inches out my master."
- 5 To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
Etymology
From Middle English ynche, enche, from Old English ynċe, borrowed from Latin uncia (“Roman inch, various similar units”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”). Cognate with Middle Dutch enke (“thumb, thumb's width, inch”). Doublet of ounce, uncia, onça, onza, oka, ouguiya, and awqiyyah.
From Middle English ynche, enche, from Old English ynċe, borrowed from Latin uncia (“Roman inch, various similar units”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”). Cognate with Middle Dutch enke (“thumb, thumb's width, inch”). Doublet of ounce, uncia, onça, onza, oka, ouguiya, and awqiyyah.
From Scots inch, from Scottish Gaelic innis.
Semantic loan from Cantonese 寸 (cyun³, “inch”), which is an alternative form of 串 (cyun³, “cocky; to provoke; etc.”).
Semantic loan from Cantonese 寸 (cyun³, “inch”), which is an alternative form of 串 (cyun³, “cocky; to provoke; etc.”).
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