transcription, транскрипция: [ nɪt ]
( knits, knitting, knitted)
1.
If you knit something, especially an article of clothing, you make it from wool or a similar thread by using two knitting needles or a machine.
I had endless hours to knit and sew...
I have already started knitting baby clothes...
She knitted him 10 pairs of socks to take with him...
During the war, Joan helped her mother knit scarves for soldiers...
She pushed up the sleeves of her grey knitted cardigan and got to work.
VERB : V , V n , V n n , V n for n , V-ed , also V n into n
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Knit is also a combining form.
Ferris wore a heavy knit sweater.
COMB in ADJ : ADJ n
2.
If someone or something knits things or people together , they make them fit or work together closely and successfully.
The best thing about sport is that it knits the whole family close together...
Ordinary people have some reservations about their president’s drive to knit them so closely to their neighbors.
VERB : V n with together , V n to/into n , also V n
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Knit is also a combining form.
...a tightly knit society.
COMB in ADJ : usu ADJ n
3.
When broken bones knit , the broken pieces grow together again.
The bone hasn’t knitted together properly.
...broken bones that have failed to knit.
VERB : V together , V
4.
If you knit your brows or knit your eyebrows , you frown because you are angry or worried. ( LITERARY )
They knitted their brows and started to grumble...
Billy’s eyebrows knitted together in a little frown.
PHRASE : V inflects