pinch

pinch

1. nipistys

2. ripaus, hyppysellinen

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Synonyymisanakirja

pinch

puristus, nipistys, nipistäminen, puristaminen, leikkaaminen, pureminen, pureskelu, puraisu, hätätilanne, pakkotilanne, ahdinko, käännekohta, hankaluus, vaikeus.

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Englannin sanakirja

pinch (englanti > suomi)

1. nipistää

2. näpistää

3. napata

4. leikata, latvoa

5. piinata

6. nipistys

7. hyppysellinen, hyppynen

8. pinteessä

pinch englanniksi

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

The children were scolded for pinching each other.

This shoe pinches my foot.

2. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.

3. (quote-book)

4. To squeeze between two objects.

5. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.

Someone has pinched my handkerchief!

6. {{quote-journal

7. puhekieltä To arrest or capture.

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

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

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

11. puhekieltä To be niggardly or covetous.

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12. Franklin

the wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare

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

14. Chapman

He the hound pinched and pulled her down.

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

to be pinched for money

16. Sir Walter Raleigh

want of room (..) pinching a whole nation

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

18. puhekieltä To complain or find fault.

19. Chaucer, 'The Good Parson'

Therefore whoso doth them accuse

Of any double intentión,

To speaké rown, other to muse,

To pinch at their conditión,

All is but false collusión,

I dare right well the soth express,

They have no better protectión,

But shourd them under doubleness.

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

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

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

23. 1955, w:Rex Stout|Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in w:Three Witnesses (book)|Three Witnesses, October 1994 w:Bantam Books|Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 171:

It took nerve and muscle both to carry the body out and down the stairs to the lower hall, but he damn well had to get it out of his place and away from his door, and any of those four could have done it in a pinch, and it sure was a pinch.

24. An organic herbal smoke additive.

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