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11Pinch, WV — U.S. Census Designated Place in West Virginia Population (2000): 2811 Housing Units (2000): 1194 Land area (2000): 3.507567 sq. miles (9.084557 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.037141 sq. miles (0.096194 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.544708 sq. miles… …
12pinch — , pinch pot Pinching is a pottery technique, fundamental to manipulating clay. Making a pinch pot is pressing the thumb into a ball of clay, and drawing the clay out into a pot by repeatedly squeezing the clay between the thumb and fingers …
13pinch — The idiom at a pinch, meaning ‘if absolutely necessary’, is the BrE form; in AmE it has the form in a pinch …
14pinch# — pinch vb *steal, pilfer, filch, purloin, lift, snitch, swipe, cop pinch n juncture, pass, exigency, emergency, contingency, strait, crisis Analogous words: *difficulty, hardship, rigor, vicissitude …
15pinch — index constrict (compress), dearth, plight, predicament, privation, quagmire, retrench, stress ( …
16pinch — pinch, efecto o efecto de constricción …
17pinch — pinch1 [pıntʃ] v [Date: 1200 1300; Origin: From an unrecorded Old North French pinchier] 1.) [T] to press a part of someone s skin very tightly between your finger and thumb, especially so that it hurts ▪ We have to stop her pinching her baby… …
18pinch — [[t]pɪ̱ntʃ[/t]] pinches, pinching, pinched 1) VERB If you pinch a part of someone s body, you take a piece of their skin between your thumb and first finger and give it a short squeeze. [V n] She pinched his arm as hard as she could... [V n] We… …
19pinch — pinchable, adj. /pinch/, v.t. 1. to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like. 2. to constrict or squeeze painfully, as a tight shoe does. 3. to cramp within narrow bounds or quarters: The …
20pinch — 1 verb 1 (T) to press a part of someone s flesh very tightly between your finger and thumb, especially so that it hurts: Mum, he pinched me! 2 (T) informal to steal something, especially something small or not very valuable: Someone s pinched my… …
