knit

Meaning

1. To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine.
2. To create a stitch by pulling the working yarn through an existing stitch from back to front.
3. To join closely and firmly together.
4. To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
5. To grow together.
6. To combine from various elements.
7. To heal following a fracture.
8. To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
9. To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.

weave

plain stitch

grow together

knit stitch

knitted fabric

stitch together

scrunch up

knitted garments

totalise

inside loop

knitting stitch

single stitch

couple on

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈnɪt/

From Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic *knutjaną, *knuttijaną (“to make knots, knit”). Cognate with Low German knütten and Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta). More at knot.

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