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knitting

/nit-ing/US // ˈnɪt ɪŋ //UK // (ˈnɪtɪŋ) //

针织,针织品,针织业,针织衫

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of a person or thing that knits.
    • : the act of forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
    • : knitted work.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbintertwine
Forms: knittings

Examples

  • Some people have taken up knitting to deal with our increasingly homebound lives during the coronavirus pandemic.

  • The sky’s the limit and winter’s long, so get your needles and get knitting.

  • Nearby was her purple reflective yarn for knitting and a pencil drawing of Heather.

  • His British-born mother ran a knitting business from the tenement where he grew up with three siblings.

  • To manage the complexity, we divided the tasks, each knitting half of the necessary polygonal faces before we sewed all the pieces together.

  • More than secular nationalist movements or industrial interests or mental illness or knitting groups?

  • She could have auditioned to be the tavern wench or a faerie; instead, she signed on as a merchant, knitting chain-mail bikinis.

  • Fanning, ever the old soul, returned the gestures by knitting the veteran actors scarves.

  • I had a lot of knitted caps courtesy of the hospital volunteers and even my own knitting.

  • Sure, they have the knitting around the ankles and the waistbands.

  • Mrs. Ducksmith gathered up her knitting and retired, Aristide dashing to the door to open it for her.

  • Mrs. Ducksmith shot a timid glance at him and the knitting needles clicked together nervously.

  • Mrs. Ducksmith blushed and, to conceal her face, bent it over her resumed knitting.

  • "Oh," she exclaimed carelessly, and went on knitting, drawing closer to the lamplight.

  • They found the old woman alone, knitting in her rustic chair in her floral bower on the roof.