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Definition: Clutches |
ClutchesNoun1. The act of grasping; "he released his clasp on my arm"; "he has a strong grip for an old man"; "she kept a firm hold on the railing". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "clutches" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | CLUTCHES. Hands, gripe, power. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: ClutchesSynonyms: clasp (n), clench (n), clutch (n), grasp (n), grip (n), hold (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Authority | Hold, grasp; grip, gripe; reach; iron sway; (severity); fangs, clutches, talons; rod of empire; (scepter). |
Retention | Clutches, tongs, forceps, pincers, nippers, pliers, vice. |
Subjection | Adjective: subject, dependent, subordinate; feudal, feudatory; in subjection to, under control; in leading strings, in harness; subjected, enslaved; Verb: constrained; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; under the lash, on the hip, led by the nose, henpecked; the puppet of, the sport of, the plaything of; under one's orders, under one's command, under one's thumb; a slave to; at the mercy of; in the power of, in the hands of, in the clutches of; at the feet of; at one's beck and call; (obedient); liable; parasitical; stipendiary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Clutches |
| Specialty definitions using "clutches": Adversity, assembler, hydraulic backhoe, ASSEMBLER, MINING MACHINERY, assembler, portable oil-well drilling rig ♦ CLUTCH REBUILDER, core driller, customer engineer ♦ Demographic parameters, DENTAL-EQUIPMENT INSTALLER AND SERVICER ♦ Fangs ♦ hydraulic and mechanical assembler ♦ MAINTENANCE MECHANIC ♦ OIL-FIELD EQUIPMENT MECHANIC ♦ PROSPECTING DRILLER ♦ rotary driller, prospecting ♦ service engineer, shot-hole driller, STATISTICAL-MACHINE SERVICER, SUBASSEMBLER ♦ TRACTOR MECHANIC. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh, fear clutches my breast (Space Jam; writing credit: Leonardo Benvenuti; Steve Rudnick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | In the Clutches of Milk (1917) | |
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Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | On the evening of the same day that Jean Valjean had rescued Cosette from the clutches of the Thenardiess, he entered Paris again |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | And I afterwards failed very narrowly three or four times of falling into their clutches, when I happened to stray at any distance without my hanger |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In most parts of Uzbekistan, the roads are poorly maintained, and often shorten the life of certain parts, such as shock absorber spans (HS 8708.80.99), brakes (HS 8708.31) clutches (HS 8708.93.99), and piston rings (HS 8409.91.10). Thus, they can be considered as best prospects. (references) | |
Economic History | Turkey | Tires, brake linings, gearboxes, and clutches are the major imported items in the parts industry. (references) |
Turkey | Parts, which need to be replaced frequently because of poorly maintained roads, heavy traffic, traffic accidents, and poor fuel quality, can also be considered as "best prospects." Examples include: shock absorbers, brakes, clutches, rings, filters, bumpers, lights, and signaling equipment to name but a few. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Clutches" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 90.63% of the time. "Clutches" is used about 128 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 90.63% | 116 | 29,969 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 9.38% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 128 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "clutches": fall into smb.'s clutches ♦ get smb. into one's clutches ♦ in smb.'s clutches ♦ in the clutches of. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "clutches": grape-clutches. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "clutches"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | thonj, pushtet (arm, ascendancy, ascendency, attribution, Caesar, clout, jurisdiction, nomocracy, power, reign), kthetra (creeper), kontroll (checkup, control, disposal, exam, examination, grip, hand, hands, inspection, mastery, monitoring, probe, restraint, search, supervision, swaddling clothes, verification), dorë (arm, claw, fist, flipper, hand, handful, mitt, palm, quality). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нокти, лапи. (various references) | |
Chinese | 动器 (Clutch). (various references) | |
Czech | spáry, drápy. (various references) | |
Danish | de vigtigste dele af hejsespillet er hejsetromle,endetromler,bremser og koblinger (brakes and clutches, catheads, the principal parts of the draw works are hoisting drum). (various references) | |
Dutch | de belangrijkste onderdelen van de rotarykraan zijn de kabeltrommel,de kattekoppen,de remmen en de koppelingen (brakes and clutches, catheads, the principal parts of the draw works are hoisting drum). (various references) | |
Finnish | joutua jonkun kynsiin (get into somebody's clutches). (various references) | |
French | agriffe. (various references) | |
German | Kupplungen. (various references) | |
Greek | τα κύρια στοιχεία ενός βαρούλκου γεωτρήσεως είναι:το κύριο τύμπανο χειρισμού,οι εργάτες,τα φρένα και οι συμπλέκτες (brakes and clutches). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vki markában van (to be in sy's clutches), vki karmai között van (to be in sy's clutches), vki karmai közé kerül (to fall into sy's clutches, to fall into sy's hands), kiszabadul vkinek a karmaiból (to get out of sy's clutches). (various references) | |
Italian | le parti principali dell'argano sono il tamburo di manovra,i cabestani,i freni e le frizioni (brakes and clutches, catheads, the principal parts of the draw works are hoisting drum). (various references) | |
Korean | 클러치 (Clutch). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utchesclay.(various references) | |
Romanian | pune cangea pe cineva (get smb. into one's clutches), în ghearele cuiva (in smb.'s clutches). (various references) | |
Russian | когти. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kandže, šape. (various references) | |
Spanish | los elementos principales de un mecanismo elevador son: el tambor elevador, los cabrestantes, los frenos y los embragues (brakes and clutches, catheads, the principal parts of the draw works are hoisting drum). (various references) | |
Turkish | pençe (claw, cleat, clutch, Fang, paw, pounce, talon, tap), kontrol (check, clutch, control, countenance, examination, governance, helm, inspection, pilot, rein, superintendence, supervision, wire), güç (ability, arduous, arm, baffling, capability, capacity, clout, clutch, command, control, difficult, dominance, energy, force, forcefulness, hard, intensity, iron, might, pep, pith, potency, potential, power, punch, rod, sinew, spirit, stamina, steam, sting, strength, stuffing, sword, tone, tricksy, vigor, vigour, vim, vis, vitality, zing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Clutches" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clitches, clutchen, Cluthas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "clutches" (pronounced klu"khuz) |
| 4 | -u" kh u z | crutches, touches. |
| 3 | -kh u z | approaches, arches, attaches, avalanches, couches, batches, beaches, benches, bitches, boches, branches, breaches, britches, broaches, brunches, bunches, catches, churches, clenches, clinches, coaches, cockroaches, crunches, detaches, dispatches, ditches, encroaches, enriches, entrenches, etches, fetches, finches, glitches, goldfinches, hatches, hitches, hunches, impeaches, inches, itches, latches, launches, leaches, leeches, lunches, lurches, marches, matches, mismatches, mulches, niches, notches, ostriches, overreaches, patches, peaches, perches, pitches, pooches, porches, pouches, preaches, punches, ranches, reaches, researches, riches, roaches, sandwiches, scotches, scratches, screeches, searches, sketches, slouches, snatches, speeches, starches, stitches, stopwatches, stretches, swatches, switches, teaches, thatches, torches, trenches, twitches, watches, wenches, witches, wrenches, wristwatches. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cultches. | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-h-l-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: culches, cutches. | |
-2 letters: chutes, clutch, culets, cultch, hustle, scutch, sleuth, tusche. | |
-3 letters: celts, chest, chute, clues, culch, culet, cults, cusec, cutch, cutes, letch, luces, lutes, schul, scute, shute, teuch, tules. | |
-4 letters: cels, celt, clue, cues, cult, cute, cuts, ecus, etch, eths, hest, hets, hues, huts, lech, lest, lets, luce, lues, lush, lust, lute, scut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-h-l-s-t-u" | |
+3 letters: churchliest, shuttlecock. | |
+4 letters: breechclouts, shuttlecocks. | |
+5 letters: shuttlecocked. | |
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