knit
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(ambitransitive)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.
- 2.
(ambitransitive)To create a stitch by pulling the working yarn through an existing stitch from back to front.
Stitches that are knitted look like little V’s when seen from the front.
- 3.
(figuratively, transitive)To join closely and firmly together.
The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.
- 4.
(intransitive)To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
- 5.
(intransitive)To grow together.
All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.
- 6.
(transitive)To combine from various elements.
The witness knitted together his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.
- 7.
(intransitive)(intransitive, of bones) To heal following a fracture.
I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit.
- 8.
(transitive)To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
- 9.
(transitive)To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A knitted garment.
- 2.
A session of knitting.
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Cognate with knütten and knýta (whence knytte, knyta). More at knot.