Pinch tarimas:

/pintʃ/

Pinch audio:

Žodžio paaiškinimas anglų kalba:

• verb-transitive: To squeeze between the thumb and a finger, the jaws of a tool, or other edges.
• verb-transitive: To squeeze or bind (a part of the body) in a way that causes discomfort or pain: These shoes pinch my toes.
• verb-transitive: To nip, wither, or shrivel: buds that were pinched by the frost; a face that was pinched with grief.
• verb-transitive: To straiten: "A year and a half of the blockade has pinched Germany” ( William L. Shirer).
• verb-transitive: Slang To take (money or property) unlawfully. See Synonyms at steal.
• verb-transitive: Slang To take into custody; arrest.
• verb-transitive: To move (something) with a pinch bar.
• verb-transitive: Nautical To sail (a boat) so close into the wind that its sails shiver and its speed is reduced.
• verb-intransitive: To press, squeeze, or bind painfully: This collar pinches.
• verb-intransitive: To be miserly.
• verb-intransitive: Nautical To drag an oar at the end of a stroke.
• noun: The act or an instance of pinching.
• noun: An amount that can be held between thumb and forefinger: a pinch of salt.
• noun: A painful, difficult, or straitened circumstance: felt the pinch of the recession.
• noun: An emergency situation: This coat will do in a pinch.
• noun: A narrowing of a mineral deposit, as in a mine.
• noun: Informal A theft.
• noun: Slang An arrest by a law enforcement officer.
• adjective: Baseball Relating to pinch-hitting or pinch runners: a pinch single; a pinch steal of third base.
• idiom: pinch pennies Informal To be thrifty or miserly.

Lietuviškos reikšmės:

to be pinched with cold (hunger) sužvarbti (išalkti)

spausti (apie batus)

apriboti

susispausti

suimti

gnybis

žiupsnelis

(su)spaudimas

the pinch of povertyvargas

at a pinch būtiniaus

įgnybti

reikalas

bėda