pinch

pinch

P0309000 (pĭnch)v. pinched, pinch·ing, pinch·es v.tr.1. To squeeze (something) between the thumb and a finger, the jaws of a tool, or other edges.2. To cause pain or discomfort to (a part of the body) by pressing or being too tight: These shoes pinch my toes.3. To nip, wither, or shrivel: buds that were pinched by the frost; a face that was pinched with grief.4. To cause to be in difficulty or financial distress: "A year and a half of the blockade has pinched Germany" (William L. Shirer).5. Slang To take (money or property) wrongfully. See Synonyms at steal.6. Slang To take into custody; arrest.7. To move (something) with a pinch bar.8. Nautical To sail (a boat) so close into the wind that its sails shiver and its speed is reduced.v.intr.1. To press, squeeze, or bind painfully: This collar pinches.2. To draw a thumb and a finger together on a touchscreen to cause the image to become smaller.3. To be frugal or miserly: If we pinch, we might save some money.4. Nautical To drag an oar at the end of a stroke.n.1. The act or an instance of pinching.2. An amount that can be held between thumb and forefinger: a pinch of salt.3. Difficulty or hardship: felt the pinch of the recession.4. An emergency situation: This coat will do in a pinch.5. A narrowing of a mineral deposit, as in a mine.6. Informal A theft.7. Slang An arrest by a law enforcement officer.adj. Baseball Relating to pinch-hitting or pinch runners: a pinch single; a pinch steal of third base.Idiom: pinch pennies Informal To be thrifty or miserly.

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[Middle English pinchen, from Old North French *pinchier, variant of Old French pincer; akin to Italian pinzare, to sting, and Spanish pinchar, to prick, sting, all derived from a Romance imitative root pints- expressive of pinching or pricking.]

pinch

(pɪntʃ) vb1. to press (something, esp flesh) tightly between two surfaces, esp between a finger and the thumb. See nip¹2. to confine, squeeze, or painfully press (toes, fingers, etc) because of lack of space: these shoes pinch. 3. (tr) to cause stinging pain to: the cold pinched his face. 4. (tr) to make thin or drawn-looking, as from grief, lack of food, etc5. (usually foll by on) to provide (oneself or another person) with meagre allowances, amounts, etc6. pinch pennies to live frugally because of meanness or to economize7. (Nautical Terms) (tr) nautical to sail (a sailing vessel) so close to the wind that her sails begin to luff and she loses way8. (Mining & Quarrying) (sometimes foll by: out) (of a vein of ore) to narrow or peter out9. (Horticulture) (usually foll by: off, out, or back) to remove the tips of (buds, shoots, etc) to correct or encourage growth10. (tr) informal to steal or take without asking11. (Law) (tr) informal to arrestn12. a squeeze or sustained nip13. (Units) the quantity of a substance, such as salt, that can be taken between a thumb and finger14. (Units) a very small quantity15. a critical situation; predicament; emergency: if it comes to the pinch we'll have to manage. 16. the pinch sharp, painful, or extreme stress, need, etc: feeling the pinch of poverty. 17. (Tools) See pinch bar18. slang a robbery19. (Law) slang a police raid or arrest20. at a pinch if absolutely necessary21. with a pinch of salt with a grain of salt without wholly believing; sceptically[C16: probably from Old Norman French pinchier (unattested); related to Old French pincier to pinch; compare Late Latin punctiāre to prick]

pinch

(pɪntʃ)

v.t. 1. to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the jaws of an instrument, or the like. 2. to constrict or squeeze painfully, as a tight shoe does. 3. to render unnaturally constricted or drawn: a face pinched with fear. 4. to remove or shorten (buds or shoots) in order to produce a certain plant shape or to encourage growth. 5. to affect with sharp discomfort or distress, as cold, hunger, or need does. 6. to straiten in means or circumstances: a family pinched by the recession. 7. to hamper or inconvenience by the lack of something specified. 8. to stint the supply or amount of (a thing). 9. Slang. a. to steal. b. to arrest. 10. to sail (a ship) so close to the wind that the sails shake and the speed is reduced. v.i. 11. to exert a sharp or painful constricting force: shoes that pinch. 12. to cause sharp discomfort or distress. 13. to economize unduly; stint oneself: pinched and saved to buy a new car. 14. (of a vein of ore or the like) to diminish. n. 15. the act of pinching; nip; squeeze. 16. as much of something as can be taken up between the finger and thumb. 17. a very small quantity. 18. sharp or painful stress, as of hunger, need, or any trying circumstances. 19. a situation or time of special stress, esp. an emergency. 20. Slang. a. a raid or an arrest. b. a theft. Idioms: pinch pennies, to stint on or be frugal with expenditures. [1250–1300; < Anglo-French *pinchier (Old French pincier, Sp pinchar) < Vulgar Latin *pīnctiāre, variant of *pūnctiāre to prick (compare pique¹)]

Pinch

 a very small quantity.Examples: pinch of pleasure, 1583; of salt; of snuff, 1712; of fresh tea, 1840.

pinch

Past participle: pinched
Gerund: pinching

Imperative
pinch
pinch

Present
I pinch
you pinch
he/she/it pinches
we pinch
you pinch
they pinch

Preterite
I pinched
you pinched
he/she/it pinched
we pinched
you pinched
they pinched

Present Continuous
I am pinching
you are pinching
he/she/it is pinching
we are pinching
you are pinching
they are pinching

Present Perfect
I have pinched
you have pinched
he/she/it has pinched
we have pinched
you have pinched
they have pinched

Past Continuous
I was pinching
you were pinching
he/she/it was pinching
we were pinching
you were pinching
they were pinching

Past Perfect
I had pinched
you had pinched
he/she/it had pinched
we had pinched
you had pinched
they had pinched

Future
I will pinch
you will pinch
he/she/it will pinch
we will pinch
you will pinch
they will pinch

Future Perfect
I will have pinched
you will have pinched
he/she/it will have pinched
we will have pinched
you will have pinched
they will have pinched

Future Continuous
I will be pinching
you will be pinching
he/she/it will be pinching
we will be pinching
you will be pinching
they will be pinching

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been pinching
you have been pinching
he/she/it has been pinching
we have been pinching
you have been pinching
they have been pinching

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been pinching
you will have been pinching
he/she/it will have been pinching
we will have been pinching
you will have been pinching
they will have been pinching

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been pinching
you had been pinching
he/she/it had been pinching
we had been pinching
you had been pinching
they had been pinching

Conditional
I would pinch
you would pinch
he/she/it would pinch
we would pinch
you would pinch
they would pinch

Past Conditional
I would have pinched
you would have pinched
he/she/it would have pinched
we would have pinched
you would have pinched
they would have pinched

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	pinch - a painful or straitened circumstance; "the pinch of the recession"difficulty - a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; "grappling with financial difficulties"
	2.	pinch - an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezedharm, hurt, injury, trauma - any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
	3.	pinch - a slight but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic"mite, soupcon, tinge, jot, hint, speck, touchsmall indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitudesnuff - a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time
	4.	pinch - a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action; "he never knew what to do in an emergency"emergency, exigencycrisis - a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something; "after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better"
	5.	pinch - a small sharp bite or snip nipsnip, clipping, clip - the act of clipping or snippingchomp, bite - the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
	6.	pinch - a squeeze with the fingers tweaksqueeze, squeezing - the act of gripping and pressing firmly; "he gave her cheek a playful squeeze"
	7.	pinch - the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"arrest, taking into custody, apprehension, collar, catchcapture, gaining control, seizure - the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property
Verb	1.	pinch - squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle"nip, tweet, twinge, twitch, squeezegrip - hold fast or firmly; "He gripped the steering wheel"goose - pinch in the buttocks; "he goosed the unsuspecting girl"tweak - pinch or squeeze sharply
	2.	pinch - make ridges into by pinching togethercrimpfold, fold up, turn up - bend or lay so that one part covers the other; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar"flute - form flutes in
	3.	pinch - make off with belongings of others cabbage, filch, pilfer, purloin, snarf, abstract, nobble, swipe, sneak, hook, liftsteal - take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"
	4.	pinch - cut the top off; "top trees and bushes"topprune, snip, lop, cut back, clip, crop, trim, dress - cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"tail - remove the stalk of fruits or berries
	5.	pinch - irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear; "smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth"; "the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back"vellicateirritate - excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus; "irritate the glands of a leaf"

pinch

verb1. nip, press, squeeze, grasp, compress, tweak She pinched his arm as hard as she could.2. hurt, crush, squeeze, pain, confine, cramp, chafe shoes which pinch our toes3. (Brit. informal) steal, rob, snatch, lift (informal), nick (slang, chiefly Brit.), trouser (slang), swipe (slang), knock off (slang), blag (slang), pilfer, snitch (slang), purloin, filch, snaffle (Brit. informal) pickpockets who pinched his wallet
noun1. nip, squeeze, tweak She gave him a little pinch.2. dash, bit, taste, mite, jot, speck, small quantity, smidgen (informal), soupçon (French) a pinch of salt3. emergency, crisis, difficulty, plight, scrape (informal), strait, uphill (S. African), predicament, extremity, hardship I'd trust her in a pinch.at a pinch if necessary, with difficulty, if need(s) be, just possibly, in a pinch (U.S. & Canad.), at a push (Brit. informal) This recipe serves two, or three at a pinch.feel the pinch suffer hardship, be poor, be impoverished, be short of money, have less money, suffer poverty The first few months of paying a mortgage is the period when most people feel the pinch.

pinch

verb1. To be severely sparing in order to economize:scrape, scrimp, skimp, stint.Idioms: pinch pennies, tighten (one's) belt.2. Slang. To take (another's property) without permission:filch, pilfer, purloin, snatch, steal, thieve.Informal: lift, swipe.Slang: cop, heist, hook, nip, rip off, snitch.Idiom: make off with.3. Slang. To take into custody as a prisoner:apprehend, arrest, seize.Informal: nab, pick up.Slang: bust, collar, run in.nounSlang. A seizing and holding by law:apprehension, arrest, seizure.Slang: bust, collar, pickup.

Translations

一撮夹痛拧捏掐

pinch

(pintʃ) verb1. to squeeze or press tightly (flesh), especially between the thumb and forefinger. He pinched her arm. 捏 捏2. to hurt by being too small or tight. My new shoes are pinching (me). 夾痛 夹痛3. to steal. Who pinched my bicycle? 盜竊 盗窃 noun1. an act of pinching; a squeeze or nip. He gave her a pinch on the cheek. 擰 拧2. a very small amount; what can be held between the thumb and forefinger. a pinch of salt. (一)撮 （一）撮 pinched adjective (of a person's face) looking cold, pale or thin because of cold, poverty etc. Her face was pinched with cold. 憔悴的 憔悴的feel the pinch to be in difficulty because of lack of money. 窘迫 窘迫

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