knit

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Knitting
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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English knitten, from Old English cnyttan (to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append), from Proto-Germanic *knutjaną, *knuttijaną (to make knots, knit). Cognate with Old Norse knýta (Danish knytte) and Northern German knütten. More at knot.

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knit (third-person singular simple present knits, present participle knitting, simple past and past participle knit or knitted)

  1. (transitive) and (intransitive) 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.
    The first generation knitted to order, the second still knits for its own use, the next leave knitting to industrial manufacturers
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To join closely and firmly together.
    The joint fight for survival knitted the men closely together.
  3. (intransitive) To become closely and firmly joined; become compact(ed).
  4. (intransitive) To grow together.
    All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border
  5. (transitive) To combine from various elements.
    The witness knitted his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.
  6. (intransitive) To heal (of bones) following a fracture.
    I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit.

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