Meaning

9 senses
  1. (ambitransitive)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.

    to knit a stocking

    The first generation knitted to order; the second still knits for its own use; the next leaves knitting to industrial manufacturers.

    stricken

    вяза́тьvjazátʹ, связа́тьsvjazátʹ

    в'яза́тиvʺjazáty

  2. (ambitransitive)To create a stitch by pulling the working yarn through an existing stitch from back to front.

    Stitches that are knitted look like little V’s when seen from the front.

  3. (figuratively, transitive)To join closely and firmly together.

    The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.

    спла́чиватьspláčivatʹ, сплоти́тьsplotítʹ

    tie or link together

  4. (intransitive)To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.

  5. (intransitive)To grow together.

    All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.

  6. (transitive)To combine from various elements.

    The witness knitted together his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.

  7. (intransitive)To heal following a fracture.

    I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit.

  8. (transitive)To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.

  9. (transitive)To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.

    to gather something into small wrinkles or folds

Examples

222 sentences
  1. Have you finished knitting that sweater?

    Ти дов'язала светра?

    ruТы закончила вязать свитер?

    deHast du den Pullover schon zu Ende gestrickt?

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  2. Do you know how to knit?

    Ти вмієш в'язати?

    ruТы умеешь вязать?

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  3. I want to learn to knit.

    Я хочу навчитися в'язати.

    ruЯ хочу научиться вязать.

    deIch will stricken lernen.

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  4. Does Tom know how to knit?

    Том уміє в'язати?

    ruТом умеет вязать?

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  5. Are you really knitting Tom a sweater?

    Ти й насправді в'яжеш Тому светер?

    ruТы правда вяжешь Тому свитер?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to make fabric from thread or yarn:
Русский
By meaning 2
to make fabric from thread or yarn:
to join closely together:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to make fabric from thread or yarn:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan, from Proto-West Germanic

Inherited from Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan, from Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic *knuttijaną, from *knuttô + *-janą.

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Forms

knits, knitting, knit, knit
Base formknit · to knit
3rd person singularknits
Present participleknitting
Past simpleknit
Past participleknit / knitted

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyknit
he, she, itknits

Past simpleLesson

all personsknit

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave knit
he, she, ithas knit

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill knit

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

35 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • knitting a sweater
  • how to knit
  • is knitting a

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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