英语词汇“pinch”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	pinch
释义	pinch I. \ˈpinch\ verb (-ed/-ing/-es) Etymology: Middle English pinchen, from (assumed) Old North French pinchier; akin to Old French pincier to pinch, Spanish pinchar to prick *transitive verb* 1. a. : to press hard between the ends of the finger and thumb, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument : squeeze < pinched and patted my cheek — W.F.De Morgan > b. (1) : to bring into a specified state or position by pinching < mountains come gradually together, and the coastal lowland is pinched out — P.E.James > (2) : to nip off or prune the tip of (a young shoot or bud) usually to induce branching or to bring into flower at a definite time the shoots which develop after the pinching — usually used with out, off, or back c. : to squeeze or compress painfully < complained the shoe pinched his toes > d. : to cause physical or mental pain to : hurt, nip < how that knowledge would have pinched their pride — R.P.Warren > < the air was so cold that it pinched … nostrils — Marcia Davenport > < the tobacco hunger pinched me sore — William Baucke > e. (1) : to cause to appear thin, shrunken, drawn, or haggard (as with pain, hunger, or strain) < cruelty pinched his face about the mouth — Elizabeth M. Roberts > < face … was pinched with disquiet — Marcia Davenport > (2) : to cause to shrivel or wither up < a heavy frost had pinched the flowers > 2. a. : to subject to strict rationing or economy or severe shortage : straiten, stint < were ready to pinch themselves for years — Samuel Butler †1902 > < so pinched for money that he often had only tea for dinner — W.A.Swanberg > < would be pinched for supplies — New York Times > b. : to cause distress or embarrassment to : vex, harass; especially : to cause economic distress to < the debtor who found himself pinched by the shrinking supply of currency — V.L.Parrington > < industries like textiles … will be seriously pinched as their contracts drop — Market Report > < is … true that inflation is pinching some of our people now — M.G.Dilke > c. : to confine or limit narrowly : constrict < will pinch their operating irrigation projects — Raymond Moley > < local prices and sales are being drastically pinched by foreign imports — Christian Science Monitor > d. : to squeeze out (money) : extort, wring 3. : to urge (a horse) to the limit 4. a. : steal < pinched that box and … got caught — Claud Cockburn > b. : arrest < pinched for speeding — Springfield (Massachusetts) Daily News > 5. : to move by prying with a pinch bar 6. : to sail (a boat) too close to the wind 7. a. : to press (the cue ball) against a billiard table with a downward stroke of the cue held more or less vertically b. : to propel (the ball) by such a stroke *intransitive verb* 1. : to press or encroach so as to hem in or confine — used with in < the hills pinch in from either side of the river — American Guide Series: Connecticut > < could have pinched in on him at any time — Williams Forrest > 2. : to be economical : be miserly or closefisted < pinched on everything, even necessities > < couldn't pinch and be shabby — Willa Cather > 3. : to cause pain by pressing or squeezing : press painfully < this shoe pinches > 4. : narrow, taper — often used with out < a calcareous sandstone … which pinches out to the south — M.A.Clement > 5. : to form a pinch Synonyms: see steal • - pinch pennies II. noun (-es) 1. a. : a critical point or juncture : emergency, strait < a good man to have when it comes to a pinch > — usually used in the phrases in a pinch < in a pinch it could carry half again as much — N.M.Clark > and at a pinch < at a pinch, it could be supplied by sea — Richard Dimbleby > b. obsolete : mental or spiritual pain or distress c. (1) : painful impact : pressure, stress < felt the pinch of chronic hunger — Dixon Wecter > < when the pinch of foreign competition came at last — G.M.Trevelyan > < again felt the pinch of blockade — F.A.Southard > (2) : condition of hardship or privation < feeling a pinch this year in that house — Pearl Buck > d. : shortage < a labor pinch may be in the making — Newsweek > < the essential facts of the ammunition pinch — Elie Abel > 2. a. : an act of pinching : nip, squeeze < gave me a pinch in the leg — Margaret Deland > b. : as much as may be taken between the finger and thumb : a very small quantity < a pinch of snuff > < a pinch of salt > 3. : pinch bar 4. : a marked thinning of a vein or bed 5. : a faint superficial line of crushed fibers running transversely across the belly of a bow or less commonly across part of an arrow 6. a. : theft b. : a police raid : arrest 7. : pressure of the cue ball against a billiard table caused by a downward stroke of the cue Synonyms: see juncture • - with a pinch of salt III. adjective 1. : substitute < a pinch runner > 2. : made by a pinch hitter < a two-run pinch single — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union >
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