knit
noun
1. a fabric made by knitting
Definition categories: man–made, cloth, fabric, material, textile
2. a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side
Similar word(s): plain
Definition categories: man–made
3. needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine
Similar word(s): knitting, knitwork
Definition categories: man–made, needlecraft, needlework
verb
1. make (textiles) by knitting
- knit a scarf
Definition categories: creation
2. tie or link together
Similar word(s): entwine
Definition categories: creation, conjoin, join
3. to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
Similar word(s): cockle, crumple, pucker, rumple
Definition categories: contact, crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, wrinkle
Sentences with knit as a verb:
- to knit a stocking
- The first generation knitted to order; the second still knits for its own use; the next leaves knitting to industrial manufacturers.
- The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.
- All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.
- The witness knitted his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.
- I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit.