Meaning of "pinch" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PINCH

Probably from Old Norman French pinchier (unattested); related to Old French pincier to pinch; compare Late Latin punctiāre to prick.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF PINCH

pinch  [pɪntʃ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PINCH

Pinch is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb pinch in English.

WHAT DOES PINCH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pinch

Pinch or pinching may refer to: ▪ Pinch, gripping an object or substance between two fingers ▪ Pinch, a very small amount of an ingredient, typically salt or a spice ▪ Pinch or Haig's Pinch, brand of Scotch whisky ▪ Pinch, West Virginia, a census-designated place in Kanawha County...

Definition of pinch in the English dictionary

The first definition of pinch in the dictionary is to confine, squeeze, or painfully press because of lack of space. Other definition of pinch is to cause stinging pain to. Pinch is also to make thin or drawn-looking, as from grief, lack of food, etc.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PINCH

PRESENT

Present

I pinch

you pinch

he/she/it pinches

we pinch

you pinch

they pinch

Present continuous

I am pinching

you are pinching

he/she/it is pinching

we are pinching

you are pinching

they are pinching

Present perfect

I have pinched

you have pinched

he/she/it has pinched

we have pinched

you have pinched

they have pinched

Present perfect continuous

I have been pinching

you have been pinching

he/she/it has been pinching

we have been pinching

you have been pinching

they have been pinching

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I pinched

you pinched

he/she/it pinched

we pinched

you pinched

they pinched

Past continuous

I was pinching

you were pinching

he/she/it was pinching

we were pinching

you were pinching

they were pinching

Past perfect

I had pinched

you had pinched

he/she/it had pinched

we had pinched

you had pinched

they had pinched

Past perfect continuous

I had been pinching

you had been pinching

he/she/it had been pinching

we had been pinching

you had been pinching

they had been pinching

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will pinch

you will pinch

he/she/it will pinch

we will pinch

you will pinch

they will pinch

Future continuous

I will be pinching

you will be pinching

he/she/it will be pinching

we will be pinching

you will be pinching

they will be pinching

Future perfect

I will have pinched

you will have pinched

he/she/it will have pinched

we will have pinched

you will have pinched

they will have pinched

Future perfect continuous

I will have been pinching

you will have been pinching

he/she/it will have been pinching

we will have been pinching

you will have been pinching

they will have been pinching

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would pinch

you would pinch

he/she/it would pinch

we would pinch

you would pinch

they would pinch

Conditional continuous

I would be pinching

you would be pinching

he/she/it would be pinching

we would be pinching

you would be pinching

they would be pinching

Conditional perfect

I would have pinch

you would have pinch

he/she/it would have pinch

we would have pinch

you would have pinch

they would have pinch

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been pinching

you would have been pinching

he/she/it would have been pinching

we would have been pinching

you would have been pinching

they would have been pinching

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you pinch
we let´s pinch
you pinch

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to pinch

Past participle

pinched

Present Participle

pinching

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «PINCH»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pinch» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of pinch

afflict · apprehend · arrest · bit · blag · bust · cabbage · chafe · collar · compress · confine · cramp · crisis · crush · dash · difficulty · distress · do · economize · emergency · exigency · extremity · filch · grasp · hardship · hurt · jot · knock off · lift · mite · nab · nail · necessity · nick · nip · oppress · oppression · pain · pilfer · pinch pennies · plight · predicament · press · pull in · purloin · rob · run in · scrape · scrimp · skimp · smidgen · snaffle · snatch · snitch · spare · speck · squeeze · steal · stint · strait · swipe · taste · trouser · tweak · uphill

TRANSLATION OF PINCH

Find out the translation of pinch to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of pinch from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pinch» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 掐
• Translator English - Spanish: pellizcar
• English: pinch
• Translator English - Hindi: चुटकी
• Translator English - Arabic: يَقْرِصّ
• Translator English - Russian: зажимать
• Translator English - Portuguese: beliscar
• Translator English - Bengali: চিমটি কাটা
• Translator English - French: pincer
• Translator English - Malay: Jepit
• Translator English - German: kneifen
• Translator English - Japanese: つねる
• Translator English - Korean: ...을 꼬집다
• Translator English - Javanese: Jempol
• Translator English - Vietnamese: cấu
• Translator English - Tamil: கிள்ளுதல்
• Translator English - Marathi: चिमटा काढणे
• Translator English - Turkish: tutam
• Translator English - Italian: pizzicare
• Translator English - Polish: uszczypnąć
• Translator English - Ukrainian: щипати
• Translator English - Romanian: a ciupi
• Translator English - Greek: τσιμπώ
• Translator English - Afrikaans: knyp
• Translator English - Swedish: nypa
• Translator English - Norwegian: klype

10 QUOTES WITH «PINCH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pinch.

1

Mathew Baynton

I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.

2

Bo Bennett

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

3

Genelia D'Souza

When in doubt, always opt for going naturel rather than hiding your skin under foundation and such. Line your eyes with kohl and mascara, put on some bright lip gloss and pinch your cheeks a little bit to get them all flushed and bright!

4

Chris Diamantopoulos

In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather like I would a shoe wax. Then I spit-shine it and buff it with a cloth, and my shoes look great.

5

Edward VIII

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

6

Fred Funk

I still pinch myself that I had the career that I had.

7

Gio Gonzalez

To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.

8

Allegra Huston

I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.

9

Enrique Iglesias

There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that's for complaining.' Not many people can do what they really like in life.

10

Brian Jacques

I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling children's author?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PINCH»

Discover the use of pinch in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pinch and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Pinch: How the baby boomers took their children's future ...

The Pinch is a landmark account of intergenerational relations in Britain. It is essential reading for parents and policymakers alike.

David Willetts, 2010

Pinch Hit

When Sam signs up at Casting Central to make some extra money, he and Trevor come together on a movie set and see the chance to trade places—to pinch hit for each other and make everyone's dreams come true. At first, it's all good. . .

Tim Green, 2012

Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer

How this came to be--how an engineering student at Cornell and an avant-garde musician working out of a storefront in California set this revolution in motion--is the story told for the first time in "Analog Days," a book that explores the ...

T. J PINCH, Frank Trocco, T. J Pinch, 2009

Pinch Analysis and Process Integration: A User Guide on ...

Pinch analysis and related techniques are the key to design of inherently energy-efficient plants. This book shows engineers how to understand and optimize energy use in their processes, whether large or small.

Ian C. Kemp, 2011

Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to ...

This book contends that when late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers sought to explain the origins of emotions, they often discovered that their feelings may not really have been their own.

Adela Pinch, 1996

Dr Golem: How to Think about Medicine

On board is one of the authors (Pinch), along with the other participants from a four-day international conference on “Hermeneutics and Science.” They are heading back to Budapest and their international flight connections. There is sudden ...

Harry Collins, Trevor Pinch, 2011

A Pinch of Salt Rocks an Empire

When Gandhiji Launched The Salt Satyagraha In The Summer Of 1930, The Then Viceroy, Lord Irwin, Scoffed At His Crazy Scheme Of Upsetting The Government With A Pinch Of Salt. Yet This Was What Exactly The Dandi March Achieved!

Sarojini Sinha, 1985

Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside

Posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of the “Five Immortals,” he was an unstoppable force on the mound, winning at least twenty-two games for twelve straight seasons and pitching three complete-game shutouts in ...

Christy Mathewson, 2013

Pinch Me

Gogo is gone. When Lily tracks him down, she finds that he’s married to someone else and has no memory of her. In this modern fairy tale, Lily must find a way to break the curse and turn her nightmare back into a dream come true.

Adena Halpern, 2011

Warrior Ascetics and Indian Empires

This 2006 book is an innovative study of warrior asceticism in India from the 1500s to the present.

William R. Pinch, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PINCH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pinch is used in the context of the following news items.

QMS says Scots pig producers are “feeling the pinch”

As a result, he comments, producers are definitely “feeling the pinch” at present. “History would tell Scottish prime pig producers to expect ... «Pig World, Jul 15»

Community Banks Feel Regulatory Pinch

The Dodd-Frank Act celebrated its fifth anniversary last week, but it's probably safe to assume many community bankers in Arkansas didn't feel ... «Arkansas Business Online, Jul 15»

Lingerie capital of Brazil feels the pinch as recession deepens

In an empty shop, on a deserted street, under the shadow of a billboard bearing the image of a 50ft woman in bra and knickers, Fátima Vieira is ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

Rural firms feeling pinch from spotty broadband service

Gregg Aamot At Crystal Cabinet Works in Princeton, faster Internet would allow drafters to share cabinet designs, dealers to use iPads at ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»

Blue Jays' Ezequiel Carrera ties game with pinch-hit home run

"I was very happy, knowing that the manager put the trust in me to go over and pinch-hit," Carrera said through an interpreter, per MLB.com. «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»

Pinch-hitter Stephen Piscotty delivers in clutch for Cardinals

Piscotty, who was called up from Triple-A Memphis earlier in the week, pinch-hit in the eighth inning and lifted a sacrifice fly to right-field to drive ... «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»

Video: Did Bromwich bite or pinch Dugan?

... also show Bromwich's fingers were wrapped around the exact spot Dugan motioned towards. So was he actually complaining of a pinch? «Sportal.com.au, Jul 15»

Braves activate Freddie Freeman

He ultimately entered the game in the seventh inning as a pinch hitter, flying out in his only at-bat of Atlanta's 1-0 loss before taking over at first ... «ESPN, Jul 15»

Shocker: Seattle Feels the Pinch of Self-Inflicted Minimum Wage Law

Remember how Seattle voted in a minimum wage hike last year? Well, Seattle residents are slowly waking up to the laws of economics and ... «Town Hall, Jul 15»

Auto, taxi commuters feel new fare pinch

MUMBAI: Commuters have started to feel the pinch of the taxi and autorickshaw fare hikes. 36,715 autos and 10,900 taxis are now fitted with ... «Times of India, Jul 15»