knit

(noun, verb)

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.