Synonym: nip, press, squeeze, tweak. Similar words: pin, pine, spin, pink, opine, spine, munch, lunch. Meaning: [pɪntʃ] n. 1. a painful or straitened circumstance 2. an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed 3. a slight but appreciable addition 4. a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action 5. a small sharp bite or snip 6. a squeeze with the fingers 7. the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal). v. 1. squeeze tightly between the fingers 2. make ridges into by pinching together 3. make off with belongings of others 4. cut the top off 5. irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear.
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151 I will help you in a pinch.
152 Do you have any oregano? I need a pinch.
153 I can lend you money in a pinch.
154 Inductance and motional impedance increase with the pinch process.
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155 Small retailers feel the pinch the most.
156 Here is a mysterious castle of macho pinch.
157 True bread is flour and water with a pinch of salt and yeast.
158 Each case should be lined with foam plastics in order to protect the goods from pinch.
159 Valves are to be of the pneumatically operated jacket pinch type with integral flanged joint ends.
160 The parents had to pinch and scrape in order to save money for their child's clothes.
161 Pinch out the tips of the young growths to make for compact, bushy plants.
162 Now that you have a good - paying job, you don't have to pinch pennies.
163 From the sun-drenched Spanish costas, to the wind-lashed Breton coast, Brits who have moved abroad are undoubtedly feeling the pinch.
164 In this technique, completely pinch off the sentry's mouth and nose to prevent any outcry.
165 Whenever Bob is in a pinch, he calls me out.
166 It seemed, he said, as he took a pinch of snuff, that I hadn't read the third chapter of the book of Genesis with sufficient attention.
167 We decided not to pinch pennies with our upcoming party.
168 When Tom and Mary were saving money to buy a house, they had to pinch pennies.
169 But he's arguably the globe's leading authority on soybean genetics and the precise brew of fertilizer, fungicide, weed killer, water — and yes, a pinch of sugar — required to grow a knockout crop.
170 The Arsenal manager takes such speculation with a pinch of salt.
171 In a pinch, you could even set up a small cot and sleep in it!
172 At a pinch this can be used as a weapon.
173 To poke prod , or pinch ( a person ) between or on the buttocks.
174 You can also pinch to zoom in as well as to jump back to all the images in a given album.
175 He levered up the wheels of the car from the mire using a pinch bar.
176 However, they warned "this report should be taken with a pinch of salt" and that it is an exercise to "light-heartedly explain quantitative techniques and demystify the typical quant framework.
177 Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a baby's beshatted diaper, as one might pinch a recently be-nutted condom.
178 First, using pinch valves to control flow within interceptors is a new use for this technology.
179 "Just pinch off the dough between your fingers", she instructs, helping me make homemade rolls and egg noodles.
180 And he took another gentle little pinch of snuff , and lightly crossed his legs.