knit

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
Spare and well-knit, his figure had a suggestion of slightness which the scales would have belied.

View all »
Definitions (29)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (9)

  1. transitive verb To make (a fabric or garment) by intertwining yarn or thread in a series of connected loops either by hand, with knitting needles, or on a machine.
  2. transitive verb To form (yarn or thread) into fabric by intertwining.
  3. transitive verb To join closely; unite securely.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (11)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (3)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (6)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 138 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (3)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English knitten, to tie in a knot, from Old English cnyttan.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. from Middle English knitten, knytten, knetten, knutten, from Anglo-Saxon cnyttan, cnittan (= Low German knütten, knutten = Icelandic kny¯ta, knytja = Danish knytte = Swedish knyta), knit, knot, form into a knot, from cnotta, a knot: see knot.
  2. from knit, v.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/nɪt/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a month.

Recently looked up

trial · verbiage · exclamation · percentile · forehead

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich