knit
verb/nɪt/
/nɪt/
In senses 3 and 4 knit is usually used for the past tense and past participle.Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they knit | /nɪt/ /nɪt/ |
| he / she / it knits | /nɪts/ /nɪts/ |
| past simple knitted | /ˈnɪtɪd/ /ˈnɪtɪd/ |
| past participle knitted | /ˈnɪtɪd/ /ˈnɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form knitting | /ˈnɪtɪŋ/ /ˈnɪtɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] to make clothes, etc. from wool, cotton or other thread using two long thin knitting needles or a machine
- knit (something) I knitted this cardigan myself.
- Lucy was sitting on the sofa, knitting.
- knit somebody something She's knitting the baby a shawl.
- [transitive, intransitive] knit (something) to use a basic stitch in knitting
- Knit one row, purl one row.
- [transitive, intransitive] knit (somebody/something) (together) to join people or things closely together or to be joined closely together
- a closely/tightly knit community (= one in which relationships are very close)
- Society is knit together by certain commonly held beliefs.
- [intransitive, transitive] knit (something) (of broken bones) to grow together again to form one piece; to make broken bones grow together again synonym mend
- The bone failed to knit correctly.
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Word OriginOld English cnyttan, of West Germanic origin; related to German dialect knütten, also to knot. The original sense was ‘tie in or with a knot’, hence ‘join, unite’ (sense (3)); an obsolete Middle English sense ‘knot string to make a net’ gave rise to sense (1).
Idioms
See knit in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee knit in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishknit your brow(s)
- to move your eyebrows together, to show that you are thinking hard, feeling angry, etc. synonym frown
- His brows were knitted in a permanent frown.
- She knitted her brows in concentration.
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