Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
made by intertwining threads in a series of connected loops rather than by weaving;
- Example: "knitted garments"- Example: "a hand-knitted sweater"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Knit \Knit\ (n[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Knit or Knitted;
p. pr. & vb. n. Knitting.] [OE. knitten, knutten, As.
cnyttan, fr. cnotta knot; akin to Icel. kn[=y]ta, Sw. knyta,
Dan. knytte. See Knot.]
1. To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as
cord; to fasten by tying.
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A great sheet knit at the four corners. --Acts x.
11.
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When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows. --Shak.
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2. To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn
or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of
needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit
stockings.
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3. To join; to cause to grow together.
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Nature can not knit the bones while the parts are
under a discharge. --Wiseman.
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4. To unite closely; to connect; to engage; as, hearts knit
together in love.
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Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit. --Shak.
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Come, knit hands, and beat the ground,
In a light fantastic round. --Milton
(Comus).
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A link among the days, toknit
The generations each to each. --Tennyson.
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5. To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
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He knits his brow and shows an angry eye. --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
knitted
adj 1: made by intertwining threads in a series of connected
loops rather than by weaving; "knitted garments"; "a
hand-knitted sweater"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "knitted":
clamped, cockled, cockly, compressed, concentrated, condensed,
consolidated, constricted, contracted, corrugate, corrugated,
cramped, creased, crimped, crimpy, crinkled, crinkly, crumpled,
furrowed, knotted, nipped, pinched, pinched-in, puckered, puckery,
pursed, pursy, ridged, rimpled, rippled, rucked, rugged, rugose,
rugous, rumpled, solidified, squeezed, strangled, strangulated,
wasp-waisted, wrinkled, wrinkly