English Dictionary

pinch

/pɪnt͡ʃ/

verb

To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt. / To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger. / To squeeze between two objects.

She pinched her brother to wake him up.

意味（1）

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

The children were scolded for pinching each other.

意味（2）

To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.

He took the plate in his hand, holding it between thumb and forefinger at one corner, letting it hang down. With the other hand he pinched it at the opposite corner, pressing thumb and forefinger together tightly.

意味（3）

To squeeze between two objects.

Since the resistance of the channel is inversely proportional to its width, the most resistive region is the one pinched between the gates where they come closest to each other.

意味（4）

(slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.

Someone has pinched my handkerchief!

意味（5）

(slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.

意味（6）

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

意味（7）

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

意味（8）

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

意味（9）

(obsolete, intransitive) To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.

There was with him none other fare,

There was with him none other fare, But for to pinche and for to spare

意味（10）

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

He [the hound] pinch'd and pull'd her down.

意味（11）

(figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.

to be pinched for money

意味（12）

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

意味（13）

(obsolete) To complain or find fault.

Therefore who so them accuse

Of any double entencion,

To speake, rowne, other to muse,

To pinch at their condicion,

All is but false collusion,

I dare rightwell the sothe express,

They have no better protection,

Therefore who so them accuse Of any double entencion, To speake, rowne, other to muse, To pinch at their condicion, All is but false collusion, I dare rightwell the sothe express, They have no better protection, But shrowd them vnder doubleness.