knit
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (3)knitted, knitting, knits
- make (textiles) by knitting“knit a scarf”More general create from raw material, create from raw stuffMore specific purl, ribInvolves sew, run up
- tie or link togetherSynonyms: entwineMore general join, conjoinMore specific loop, purl stitch
- to gather something into small wrinkles or folds“She puckered her lips”Synonyms: puckerrumplecocklecrumpleMore general wrinkle, ruckleSimilar draw
Noun (3)knits
- a fabric made by knittingType of fabric, clothKinds tricot, jersey, stockinet, double knit, balbriggan
- a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand sideSynonyms: knit stitchplainplain stitchType of knitting stitch
- needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machineSynonyms: knittingknitworkType of needlework, needlecraft
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Translations
Verb to make fabric from thread or yarn
- Spanish
- tejer
- French
- tricoter
- German
- stricken
- Italian
- sferruzzare
- Portuguese
- tricotar
- Turkish
- örmek
- Russian
- вяза́ть vjazátʹ
- Arabic
- حَاكَ ḥāka
- Chinese
- 编织 biānzhī
- Japanese
- 編む amu
24 more languages
- Dutch
- breien
- Polish
- robić na drutach
- Swedish
- sticka
- Greek
- πλέκω pléko
- Korean
- 뜨다 tteuda
- Hungarian
- köt
- Portuguese (PT)
- tricotar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 編織 biānzhī
- Albanian
- thur
- Catalan
- tricotar
- Czech
- plést
- Danish
- strikke
- Esperanto
- triki
- Finnish
- neuloa
- Hebrew
- סָרַג sarág
- Icelandic
- prjóna
- Latvian
- adīt
- Malagasy
- manao ba
- Norwegian
- strikke
- Romanian
- tricota
- Scottish Gaelic
- figh
- Serbo-Croatian
- plesti
- Slovak
- pliesť
- Welsh
- gweu
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. knitten, knutten, As. cnyttan, fr. cnotta knot; akin to Icel. knȳta, Sw. knyta, Dan. knytte. See Knot.
1. To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
A great sheet knit at the four corners.— Acts x. 11.
When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows.— William Shakespeare
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.
3. To join; to cause to grow together.
Nature can not knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge.— Richard Wiseman
4. To unite closely; to connect; to engage; as, hearts knit together in love.
Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit.— William Shakespeare
Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light fantastic round.— Milton (Comus).
A link among the days, toknit The generations each to each.— Alfred Tennyson
5. To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
He knits his brow and shows an angry eye.— William Shakespeare
1. To form a fabric by interlacing yarn or thread; to weave by making knots or loops.
2. To be united closely; to grow together; as, broken bones will in time knit and become sound.
To knit up, to wind up; to conclude; to come to a close. “It remaineth to knit up briefly with the nature and compass of the seas.” obsolete Philemon Holland
Union knitting; texture. William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54