knit
part of speech
verb (knit, knits, knitted or knit, knitting); noun (a knit — a knitted piece of clothing)
meaning for a pupil
1) To make clothes or other things from wool or yarn by looping it together with two long needles or a machine. tree →
2) Of broken bones: to join and grow back together. tree →
3) «Knit your brows» means to frown. tree →
sense in the lessons
In design and technology or craft clubs children learn to knit scarves; grannies often knit jumpers. In science lessons on the body: a broken bone knits together as it heals. Phrases: «knitting needles», «a close-knit family» (a family who are very close to each other).
examples
- Granny knitted me a woolly hat. tree →
- I'm learning to knit with big needles. tree →
- She knits while she watches TV. tree →
- The broken bone will knit together in six weeks. tree →
- We are a close-knit family. tree →
- He knitted his eyebrows and thought hard. tree →
- This jumper is a warm knit. tree →
- Marko, his brows knit, his legs contorted, was scarcely able to hold out.[60] tree →
note
The «k» is silent: say «nit». Past: «knitted» (usual for wool) or «knit» (often for bones and in «close-knit»). Homophone: «nit» (the egg of a head louse). Knitting uses needles; crochet uses one hook.
In the corpora
- People of all ages knit; the British Olympic diver Tom Daley was filmed knitting between events at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
- Example: Grandma knits you a jumper you do not like and asks if you like it.
- So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
- For Thou hast made my reins; Thou hast knit me together in my mother's womb.
- Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «knit» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.