Knit

Definition: Knit

Knit

Noun

1. A fabric made by knitting.

2. A basic knitting stitch.

3. Needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine.

Verb

1. Make (textiles) by knitting; "knit a scarf".

2. Tie or link together.

3. To gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "knit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Knit \Knit\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Knitor Knitted; Knitting.]. (references)

Synonyms: Knit

Disapprobation

Frown upon, look grave; bend the brows, knit the brows; shake the head at, shrug the shoulders; turn up the nose; (contempt); look askance, look black upon; look with an evil eye; make a wry face, make a wry mouth at; set one's face against.

Discontent

Verb: be discontented; Adjective: quarrel with one's bread and butter; repine; regret; wish one at the bottom of the Red Sea; take on, take to heart; shrug the shoulders; make a wry face, pull a long face; knit one's brows; look blue, look black, look black as thunder, look blank, look glum.

Junction

Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span.

Receptacle

Pocket, pouch, fob, sheath, scabbard, socket, bag, sac, sack, saccule, wallet, cardcase, scrip, poke, knit, knapsack, haversack, sachel, satchel, reticule, budget, net; ditty bag, ditty box; housewife, hussif; saddlebags; portfolio; quiver; (magazine).

Resentment

Pout, knit the brow, frown, scowl, lower, snarl, growl, gnarl, gnash, snap; redden, color; look black, look black as thunder, look daggers; bite one's thumb; show one's teeth, grind one's teeth; champ the bit, champ at the bit.

Crosswords: Knit

You can sit there complaining, or you can knit me some seat belts (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

There's so much wool you could knit a sweater (Porky's; writing credit: Bob Clark)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Broadwoven, Weft, Lace and Warp Knit in Asia (reference)

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Books

• 50 Baby Bootees to Knit (reference)

• Knit Mittens! (reference)

• The Knit Hat Book: 25 Hats from Basic Shapes (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Knit Alert (reference)

• Knit America (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Tightly Knit (reference)

• Tightly Knit (Originals) [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Wells Lamont 533XL Men's Latex Coated Knit Glove (XL) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modeled by Betty Mayer, who was Assistant Superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps in 1923-1930. Her cap bears the two gold stripes of her position. Seen here is the white indoor duty uniform and blue knit sweater, authorized 22 January 1923. Probably photographed prior to 1929. Credit: NAVY.

Native of North Carolina. Sunbonnet, and homemade old-fashioned knit gloves. This woman is a member of Wheeley Church congregation. Near Gordonton, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

Our boys need sox, knit your bit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Knit a bit for our first line of defense Wool, needles and directions / / Jessie Banks. Credit: Library of Congress.

Our boys need sox, knit your bit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Our boys need sox - knit your bit American Red Cross. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

She bought a knit skirt and sent it to the Thenardiers

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

However, neither import duties nor consumption tax will be levied on imports (except leather and knit products, etc.) of less than 10,000 yen value (inclusive of shipping, insurance, etc.). (references)

Economic History

Austria

The Slovenes form a closely knit community. (references)

El Salvador

Sara Lee Knit Products: Owns a clothing assembly plant in El Pedregal free trade zone. (references)

Portugal

Because the business community is close knit and many distributors are family-run operations, trade disputes are few and are normally resolved out of court. (references)

Minorities

Mauritius

The country is a small island nation, and ethnic groups, known as "communities," are tightly knit. (references)

Trade

Japan

Certain specific products are exceptions to this rule, such as leather goods, and some knit products. (references)

Brazil

Breeder livestock (cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and donkeys, including semen and embryos); wine and brandy, distilled spirits (rum, wodka and whiskey); fresh vegetables (asparagus, beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, garlic, lettuce, onions, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes); canned vegetables (asparagus, beans, carrots, corn, peas, tomatoes and tomato paste); frozen vegetables (beans, broccoli, carrots, corn and spinach); peanut butter or peanut flour; dairy products (butter, butter oil, ghee, anhydrous milk fat, non-fat and whole milk powder, whey powder, whey protein concentrate, lactose, non-sweetened condensed milk, fluid milk, lecithin and cheese); ice cream; meat, frozen or chilled (beef, pork and their products);wheat, wheat flour, semolina; cotton, 100% cotton yarn, 100% cotton fabrics (woven and knit unbleached/bleached/dyed, and/or printed); rice; feed grains (barley, including malting barley, white corn, yellow corn, sorghum and oats); corn products (flour, starch, corn meal, popcorn and gluten); pulses(dry beans, peas and lentils), poultry breeder stock (baby chicks, turkey pouts and hatching eggs); eggs and egg products (fresh, dry, refrigerated, frozen, albumin, etc); fresh fruits (apples, apricots, avocados, blueberries, cherries, grapes, grapefruit, kiwi, lemons, melons, nectarines, oranges, pears, plums, peaches, raspberries and tangerines); hops: hops extract; tallow: grease, lard, barley malt; potatoes(cut and chilled or frozen; flakes, granules); peanuts; commercially prepared dog and cat food, animal feed ingredients, fish food; seeds for sowing; almonds ( walnuts, pistachios, hazelnut and pecan); dry fruits, frozen fruits, canned fruits, fruit pure and fruit pulp, 100% natural fruit juice; seafood (fresh and frozen);tomato paste; alfalfa; honey; skins; nutritional beverages preparations (for human consumption); soy protein products; vegetable oils; wood; beer; cereals; preparation for breads and pizzas (powder, refrigerated of frozen); canned pickles; ready-to-eat meals; soft drinks and sodas; soups and sauces. (references)

Women

Iraq

Such abuse customarily is addressed within the tightly knit family structure. (references)

Iceland

Nonetheless a large majority of victims decline to press charges or choose to forgo trial, in part to avoid unwanted publicity in a small, tightly knit society. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "knit": closely knit ♦ double knit ♦ knit one's brow ♦ knit ones brows ♦ knit one's brows ♦ knit one's eyebrows ♦ knit stitch ♦ knit the brows ♦ knit things for ♦ knit together ♦ knit up ♦ knit up a plot ♦ knit up with ♦ loosely knit ♦ reverse knit ♦ tightly knit ♦ To knit the brows ♦ To knit up ♦ well knit. Additional references.

Beginning with "knit": knit-club, knit-deknit, knit-denim, knit-ins, knit-stockings.

Ending with "knit": chunky-knit, cotton-knit, double-knit, loose-knit, tight-knit, tightly-knit.

Albanian

vrenjtem (cloud, knit one's brows), thur (braid, convolve, enmesh, fence, pleach, shut up, spin, splice, stitch, twine, twist, weave), rrudh vetullat (frown, knit one's brows), ngjitem (adhere, ascend, climb, climb up, cling, come up, go up, Mount, ride, scale, scramble, stick together, swarm up), ndërthur (combine, entwine, intertwine, interweave), bashkoj (add together, ally, amalgamate, band together, close up, combine, compound, conglomerate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consolidate, couple, fuse, fuze, glue, hook up, inosculate, integrate, interlock, join, joint, link, merge, piece, piece together, pool, solder, splice, unify, unite, weld). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نسج (interweave, spin, spun, weave), ‏وحد (combine, confederate, conjugate, consolidate, graft, integrate, marry, pool, unify, unite), ‏حاك (abrasive, weave), ‏ربط (attach, attachment, bind, connect, couple, faster, hitch, interface, involve, join, knitting, lash, lash down, ligature, link, moor, relate, rope, secure, set, slur, strap, swaddle, tether, tying, unite), ‏شابك (interlace, tangle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съединявам (aggregate, band, butt, clutch, compound, concatenate, conjoin, couple, impale, incorporate, inosculate, interlock, join, join up, knee, link, marry, mate, piece, piece together, rejoin, splice, tag, tie, tie in, unite), сраствам се (accrete, close up, coalesce, granulate, knit together), свивам (bend, constrict, contract, convulse, cop, double, double up, draw, knap, knit together, knot, neck, pinch, pucker, roll, screw, screw up, set, shorten, snitch, swing, turn, turn down, twist, wad, warp, work), втвърдявам (cake, calcify, concrete, congeal, cure, fasten, firm, fix, harden, indurate, set, solidify), завързвам (bend, contract, fasten, gripe, lash down, make fast, moor, secure, tie up), плета лицево, плета (braid, spin, twine). (various references)

Chinese 

编织 (Knits, knitted, knitting, Weaved, Weaving, Wove, Woven), 編�" (braid, plait, weave). (various references)

Czech

srùstat, spojovat (concatenate, connect, ply, splice), plést (hand-knit, plait, twist, weave, wreathe). (various references)

Danish

kædemaske (warp knit), trikotstrikket stof (warp knit fabric), ribstrikning (ribbed 1 plain x 1 purl, ribbed knit), omvendt strikvare (reverse knit), links/links vare (reverse knit), fraktur (fracture), der er helet med forskydning (wrongly knit fracture). (various references)

Dutch

breien (knitting). (various references)

Esperanto

triki. (various references)

Faeroese

binda (bind, braid, bridle, check, connect, join, plait, restrain, tie, tie up, twine, wreathe). (various references)

Farsi 

کشبافی کردن , گره زدن (Knot, Loop, Ruffle, Tie, Truss, Twitch), بهم پیوستن (Bind, Clobber, Concrete, Graft, Incorporate, Interlock, Knot, Link, Pan, Seam), بستن (Assess, Attach, Bang, Bar, Belt, Bind, Bloc, Block, Blockade, Choke, Clasp, Coagulate, Congeal, Cork, Curdle, Gird, Hasp, Impute, Jam, Jell, Obturate, Padlock, Pen, Picket, Plug, Seal, Shut, Steek, Tighten, Truss, Wattle), بافتن (Tine, Weave). (various references)

Finnish

neuloa (sew). (various references)

French

tricoter. (various references)

Frisian

breidzje. (various references)

German

stricken (knit up, knitted, knitting, to knit), verknüpfen (associate, bind up, combine, concatenate, connect, integrate, intertwine, join, knitted, knot, link, tie, to combine, to concatenate). (various references)

Greek 

πλέκω (braid, crochet, intertwine, plait, plat, raddle, strand), ζαρώνω (cockle, contract, cower, crimple, cringe, crouch, crumple, pucker, ruck, rumple, shrink, shrivel, wimple, wrinkle). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקשור (bind, bond, connect, hitch, plot, relate, tether, tie, truss), לסרו�' (interlace, lace, make a net, plait), לסר�' (interlace, interwine, plate). (various references)

Hungarian

kötõtûvel köt, köt (bind, hand-knit, to heel, to knit, to lace, to tie, to work, to wreathe), tömörít (mass, organize, to bur, to burr, to caulk, to compact, to concrete, to condense, to knit, to thicken), tömörül (to clog together, to knit, to pool), szorosan egyesít (to knit), szorosan egyesül (to knit), összehúz (constrict, contract, pull together, to constrict, to contract, to draw across, to gather, to knit, to pull together, to purse), összefûz (catenate, interlink), összefűződik (to interlace, to knit, to lace), összefűz (to interlace, to knit, to link, to staple, to tack, to tie). (various references)

Indonesian

merajut. (various references)

Irish

cniotáil. (various references)

Italian

lavorare a maglia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ニッケル鋼 (knitted fabric, knitted garments, knitwear, nickel steel, nippers). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ニット (knitted fabric, knitted garments). (various references)

Korean 

뜨개질을 하십시�". (various references)

Manx

sniemmey (affix, alligation, anchylosis, joining, knot, knotting, noose, tie; knitting, tying), snaidey (of a needle), nittal (knitting), fee (braid, interlace, intertwine, mat; ravens, plait, weave, wreathe). (various references)

Norwegian

strikke. (various references)

Pig Latin

itknay.(various references)

Portuguese

unir (adjoin, ally, attach, band, cement, compact, conjoin, conjugate, connect, couple, dowel, fasten, fay, fish, fuse, gather, hold together, incorporate, inosculate, join, link, marry, mate, put together, splice, team up, unite, wed, yoke), tricotar, prender (apprehend, arrest, attract, bind, bond, cage, capture, clip, confine, coop, cop, detain, drop behind, embay, fasten, gaol, gift, grapple, handsel, hoop, immobilize, incarcerate, jail, jug, kennel, lag, link, lock in, mew, nab, pin, prison, quod, run in, secure, seize, shut, snaffle-bit, take, take up), ligar (band, bind, binding, bond, call, catenate, colligate, connect, connect up, couple, gear, incorporate, indenture, inosculate, interlink, interlock, interweave, join, joint, ligature, link, mingle, plug, plug in, set, splice, switch, switch on, tie, tie up, turn on, unite, wed, yoke), fazerrendas, fazermeias, fazer malha (net), entretecer (interlace, interweave, inweave, lard). (various references)

Romanian

împleti (braid, criss cross, entwine, entwist, interlace, intertwine, interweave, mat, mesh, plait, plash, twine, weave, work, wreathe). (various references)

Romany

khoov� v (to knit). (various references)

Russian 

вязать (crochet). (various references)

Scottish

fuaigh (connect, sew, stitch). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spojiti (aggregate, bring together, combine, connect, couple, fuse, hook up, join, joint, link, lump, merge, pair, piece, piece together, pin together, ply, rabbet, slur, splice, tap), pletivo (knitwear), plesti (braid, hand-knit, intrigue), štrikeraj (knitwork), štrikati. (various references)

Spanish

unirse en (adhere, ally, cleave, condense, cramp), tricotar, tejer (crochet, twine, weave), soldarse, hacer punto, hacer media, hacer calceta, hacer a punto de aguja, fruncir (bunch, contract, gather, lower, plait, pucker, pucker up, purse, ruffle, shirr, smock). (various references)

Sranan

brey. (various references)

Swedish

växa ihop (accrete), sticka (clear off, clear out, dig, hook it, jab, knitting needle, knitting-needle, Lam, light out, match, pick, prick, prickle, prod, scoot, scram, spill, splinter, split, stab, stick, sting, take french leave, thrust, tingle, twinge, vamoose, welsh), sammanfogas, rynkas (gather), rynka (crease, Crinkle, frill, furrow, gather, line, pleat, pucker, shirr, wringkle, wrinkle), fast förena, förenas (join together), binda samman (colligate). (various references)

Thai

ถัก (knit up), ขมว�"คิ้ว (knit one's brow, lour). (various references)

Turkish

kaynaşmak (blend, coalesce, commingle, fuse, knit up, merge, mill about, mix, seethe, socialize, unite), dokumak (weave), birleşmek (affiliate, agree, ally, ally oneself, amalgamate, associate oneself, band together, be made one, coalesce, combine, confederate, congregate, conjoin, conjugate, converge, couple, fasten, federate, fuze, gang, incorporate, inosculate, join, knit up, link, make one, meld, merge, reunite, unite, weld), bağlamak (affiliate, assign, attach, attribute, band, bandage, belay, bend, bind, bond, brace, braid, clasp, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, connect, copulate, cord, couple, do up, engage, enthral, enthrall, fasten, fasten up, fix, fixate, grapple, guy, hitch, hook on, hook up, infix, interconnect, interlink, interlock, inthral, join, knit together, knit up, knot, lace, lace up, lash, lash down, leash, ligature, link, link up, lock, lock up, mediatize, oblige, put through, rivet, rope, settle, string, subordinate, switch to, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, truss, unite, Wed), örmek (bond, braid, build, entwist, hand-knit, plait, spin, twine, weave), örgü örmek, örgü (braid, braiding, hand-knit, hand-knitted, knitted, knitting, plait, plat), çatmak (attack, be up against, fall foul of, jump at, jump on, lash into, run against, slap, stack, walk into, wrinkle, wrinkle up). (various references)

Turkmen 

цrmek (braid, break out (in a rash)), iюmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

трикотаж (knitwear), в'язати (bind), в'язання (knitting, needlecraft, netting, network), в'язаний (knitted), нахмурювати, з'�"днуватися (agglutinate, articulate, coalesce, come together, conjoin, conjugate, connect, couple, interlock, join, mix, tie in, unite), з'�"днувати (adjoin, agglutinate, aggregate, amalgamate, articulate, associate, cement, commingle, compact, compound, concatenate, conflate, conjoin, connect, couple, cumulate, glue, inosculate, interlock, joint, leash, link, merge, piece together, tag, thwack, tie in, twin, unite), плести (entwine, plat, strand, wattle, weave), плетений (wattled, wickered). (various references)

Welsh

gweu (weave), gwau (weave). (various references)

adstrictos, adstrictus, adstringens, adstrinxissent, adtracta, solidarentur, solidatae, solido. (various references)

bregdan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "knit": knits, knitted, knitter, knitters, knitting, knittings, knitwear. (additional references)

Words ending with "knit": interknit, reknit, unknit. (additional references)

Words containing "knit": interknits, interknitted, interknitting, reknits, reknitted, reknitting, unknits, unknitted, unknitting. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Knit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cnit, cunit, kait, kanat, Kaniu, Kanrith, Kbit, Kci, keit, Khit, Kinich, kint, Kinta, Kinte, kinth, kiut, klit, kn, kna, knact, knat, kneat, kneet, knef, kneh, knept, knet, knewt, knib, knid, knie, knif, knip, knite, knitl, kniv, knix, kniz, knote, knu, knud, knut, Knutt, knwi, koit, kongit, kontic, krit, Kuito, kuni, kwit, Nait, ndt, niat, nibt, nict, niet, nift, niht, nij, nipt, niq, nirt, nitb, nitc, Nith, niti, nitq, nitr, nitt, nitu, niz, njt, nmt, Nni, noit, npt, Nti, nuict, nuit, nyt, znit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ink, kin, kit, nit, tin.

-2 letters: in, it, ti.

+1 letter: knits, skint, stink, takin, think.

+2 letters: antick, catkin, inkjet, inkpot, intake, kainit, kation, kiting, kitten, knight, reknit, stinko, stinks, stinky, taking, takins, tanuki, thinks, tinker, tinkle, tinkly, toking, tsking, unknit.

+3 letters: anticks, antlike, beatnik, bethink, catkins, inkblot, inkiest, inkpots, intakes, kainite, kainits, karting, katcina, kations, kenotic, keratin, kernite, ketonic, kiloton, kilting, kindest, kinetic, kinetin, kinglet, kitchen, kithing, kitling, kittens, kitting, knights, knitted, knitter, kunzite, kyanite, kything, lentisk, necktie, netlike, nitpick, nutlike, nutpick, pinkest, ratfink, reknits, rethink, skating, skiting, sputnik, staking, stinker, stoking, tacking, takings, talking, tanking, tanukis, tasking, thicken, thinker, ticking, tinkers, tinkled, tinkler, tinkles, tinlike, tinwork, trinket, troking, tucking, tusking, twinkle, twinkly, unakite, unknits, unstick, unthink.