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Knit

//nɪt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A knitted garment.

    "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."

  2. 2
    needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine wordnet
  3. 3
    A session of knitting.

    "It's always time for a bit of a knit."

  4. 4
    a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side wordnet
  5. 5
    a fabric made by knitting wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    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. ambitransitive

    "to knit a stocking"

  2. 2
    to gather something into small wrinkles or folds wordnet
  3. 3
    To create a stitch by pulling the working yarn through an existing stitch from back to front. ambitransitive

    "Stitches that are knitted look like little V’s when seen from the front."

  4. 4
    make (textiles) by knitting wordnet
  5. 5
    To join closely and firmly together. figuratively, transitive

    "The fight for survival knitted the men closely together."

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  1. 6
    tie or link together wordnet
  2. 7
    To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted. intransitive
  3. 8
    To grow together. intransitive

    "All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border."

  4. 9
    To combine from various elements. transitive

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

  5. 10
    To heal following a fracture. intransitive

    "I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit."

  6. 11
    To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying. transitive

    "When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows,"

  7. 12
    To draw together; to contract into wrinkles. transitive

    "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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

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