cinch
To bring to certain conclusionTo bring to certain conclusion.
» For a person who is in good physical condition, climbing mountains is a cinch.
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3 sensesTo bring to certain conclusion.
To tighten down.
besiegeln, sichern
In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
- get a grip on; get mastery of
- make sure of
- tie a cinch around
Examples
8 sentencesFor a person who is in good physical condition, climbing mountains is a cinch.
It's a cinch.
The biochemistry test was a cinch.
It's a cinch to learn to swim.
Can you cinch the belt a little tighter?
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
Borrowed from Occitan cencha, from Latin cincta, or from Spanish cincha (“a belt or girth”Borrowed from Occitan cencha, from Latin cincta, or from Spanish cincha (“a belt or girth”), from Late Latin cingula, from Latin cingulum. Doublet of cingle.
Compare senses at etymology 1 (a girth, a tight grip), perhaps suggesting the tactics used in the game; or perhaps from Spanish cinco (“five”), the five spots of the colour of the trump being important cards.
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Forms
cinches, cinching, cinched, cinchedSynonyms
1 synonyms- tie a cinch around:girth
Word family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.