Word Finder - pinches

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The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

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A close compression of anything with the fingers.

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I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.

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A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.

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An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.

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A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.

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An organic herbal smoke additive.

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A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.

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The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.

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An arrest.

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To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

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The children were scolded for pinching each other.

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To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.

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To squeeze between two objects.

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To steal, usually something inconsequential.

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Someone has pinched my handkerchief!

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To arrest or capture.

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To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.

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To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.

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To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.

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To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.

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To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.

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To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.

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to be pinched for money

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To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.

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To complain or find fault.

See further, Pinches, Old Test.

Heavy pinches are applied at first, the space between the rolls being diminished by a hand-screw of ter each passage of the bars through them.

But all attempts to harmonize the scheme of dynasties thus ascribed to Berossus with the list given us in the so-called dynastic Tablets discovered by Dr Pinches have been failures.

Pinches, which gave a synopsis of Babylonian history from a Babylonian point of view, and was compiled in the reign of Darius.

Pinches has pointed out' that Shumer may be a dialectic form of an as yet unestablished non-Semitic form, Shenger, just as the non-Semitic word dimmer, " god," is equivalent to another form, dingir.

Pinches gave the equivalent Gilgamesh (see Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, p. 468).

Pinches is distinguished by its non-mythical character; in particular, the 11 West, Pahlavi Texts (S.B.E.), vol.

It could mean the difference between a corset that fits and one that drags down the bust or pinches.

Naturally, you don't want to wear anything that pinches or digs into you while you're wearing it.

The parent or child sprinkles the product onto a swab and coats the nostril then pinches the nose for 15 to 20 seconds.

No matter what adult dance costume you are interested in wearing, be sure to check out the costumes' fit with whatever undergarments you plan to wear to avoid unsightly lines, pinches or discomfort.

No more strapping into an ill-fitting bra that pinches and distributes the body unevenly.

This view is based on Dr Pinches's discovered list in which Sapatti is called the 15th day (Proc. of the Soc. of Biblical Arch., p. 51 foll.).

A remarkable Babylonian tablet discovered by Dr Pinches represents Marduk, the god of light, as identified in his person with all the chief deities of Babylonia, who are evidently regarded as his varying manifestations.'

When the bars are nearly to gauge, light pinches are given, the power required by finishing rolls being about 5 h.p. only.

After fusing a panful of colored glass, it was sampled by taking pinches out with tongs; when perfectly combined it was left to cool in the pan, as with modern optical glass.