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knit English

Meaning knit meaning

What does knit mean?
Definitions in simple English

knit Verb

— When you knit, you make a cloth from a long wool thread, usually by hands with needles.

knit

— verb make (textiles) by knitting knit a scarf — verb tie or link together — noun a fabric made by knitting — noun (= knit stitch) a basic knitting stitch — noun needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine — verb (= pucker) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds She puckered her lips

Synonyms knit synonyms

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knit English » English

weave crochet braid wrinkle pucker knitting interlace tie plait knot unite sew rumple plain stitch plain knit stitch join intertwine interlaced grow together frown crumple contract cockle accrete wave unify twine screw up scowl net merge link knitwork hitch entwine couple combine bind wimple weld web vomit twist twin totalize totalise tissue tie up tie in

Topics knit topics

What do people use knit to talk about?
Work and occupation Occupation Working with cloth

Knitting
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with cloth
Physical actions Arrange

Join, attach

Conjugation knit conjugation

How do you conjugate knit?

knit · verb

Examples knit examples

How do I use knit in a sentence?

Simple sentences

It must have been difficult for her to knit this sweater.
Tom likes to knit.
Will you knit a sweater for me?
Tightly-knit carpets are generally more valuable.
She knit him a sweater.
Tom asked Mary if she knew how to knit.
Did Mary knit gloves for you both?
The daughters knit.
Tom often wears a knit ski cap in the winter.
My grandmother knit that by hand.
I'd rather stay home and knit.
Blokes who knit are a rarity.
It's rare for guys to knit.
It seldom happens that men knit.
She knit him a sweater for his birthday.
Tom tried to convince Mary to knit him a scarf.
Knit your eyebrows!
Mary knit Tom a sweater.
Mary knit a sweater for Tom.
I like to knit.
Tom grew up in a close-knit family.
I knit.
I knit every day.

Movie subtitles

She's still unravelling old sweaters from the charity box to knit up mittens for the poor.
Did you knit it yourself?
I can always learn to knit, and Ripley'll print my picture.
Maybe you'd like to sit down and knit them eight little sweaters to remember you by.
So, I just sit and knit.
Only, with me around, you wouldn't have to knit.
Knit doilies and make leather handbags.
The broken rancor of your high-swoln hearts. but lately splinted, knit and joined together. must gently be preserved, cherished and kept.
I don't know much about medicine but if that leg isn't set properly, it'll knit the way it is.
We have to avoid loss, be close-knit and fast.
Do you knit?
And I also knit for charity.
There is no better method for keeping hands exercised. than knit two, purl two!
As long as somebody can knit.
Is it knit 2, purl 2 for garter stitch? No.
A woman who can sew and cook and bake, even if she doesn't have to, and knit and.
And I shall try to knit a well-formed organization.
Knit me a muffler? -Call me when you get in.
The bones wouldn't knit.
Yes, sir. I knit and sew. I also embroider, here and there.
And you knit up so quickly hardly any use for a doctor at all.
I'll cook for you, I'll serve you tea in the afternoon, I'll knit you sweaters.
She's gonna make tea for him, knit him sweaters.
You knit and I'll read.
I don't know how to knit.
While I knit shoes for a baby.
Anytime his thumbs get tired. Only, with me around, you wouldn't have to knit. - Wouldn't I?
I'll knit you something.
Well, what do you want me to do, learn to knit?
I cook, I knit, I read.
For the form point, you knit two then purl two?
No, you knit all.
I can't knit, but where men are concerned, I know.

News and current affairs

Fifty-four years after the announcement of the Schuman Plan that began to knit together the economies of France and Germany, the EU now has 25 countries and a population larger than that of the United States.
Successive generations of post-war European political leaders initiated the European Union and then currency union in order to knit countries so closely together that another major war between them would become impossible.
That idea has knit together a country that many thought would not survive, and whose 60th birthday is therefore well worth celebrating.
Tight-knit cliques of bureaucrats and corporate officials made sure that a utility company vital for economic growth would never be hindered by strict regulation or political oversight.
At the same time, since Vatican II - and in tandem with the decline of close-knit ethnic enclaves - churchgoers no longer feel obliged to hew to the letter of canon law.
It is through Homer that virtually all Western readers first encounter the Mediterranean world: its islands and shores and peoples knit together by diplomacy, trade, marriage, oil, wine, and long ships.
New York - The World's central bankers are a close-knit club, given to fads and fashions.
Is the adoring political spouse - so much a part of the political landscape that she has her own iconography, from knit suits to the dreamy upward gaze at her man - receding into the past?
The entire operation is run by a close-knit group of men (women play no part in this murky business), all of whom are beholden to the boss.
This, of course, does not mean that Asia is, or is becoming, a single market, but rather that is now something of a tight-knit pan-national supply chain.
The US textile lobby insisted that knit fabrics exported north come from Central America.
The trouble is that Central America relies on third countries for knit fabrics.
In response to America's failed policies in the Middle East, whether in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, or Palestine, Russia appears to be using its oil-fired wealth to knit together a new bloc to counter the US presence.
In contrast to Europe - with its close-knit network of multilateral organizations through which states formulate and conduct much of their foreign policies - Russia is not accustomed to intensively cooperative international procedures.

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