"pinching" meaning in All languages combined

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more pinching",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most pinching",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:",
          "text": "It was one January morning, very early — a pinching, frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That pinches, or causes such a sensation"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
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          "pinch"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pinching"
}

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        "2": "verb form"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "pinch"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of pinch"
      ],
      "id": "en-pinching-en-verb-vMiwEAUu",
      "links": [
        [
          "pinch",
          "pinch#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pinching"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "penny-pinching"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pinchings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pinching (plural pinchings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Paul Theroux, The Lower River:",
          "text": "Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings, such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of one who or that which pinches."
      ],
      "id": "en-pinching-en-noun-7m~uNWM0"
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Horticulture",
          "orig": "en:Horticulture",
          "parents": [
            "Agriculture",
            "Botany",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        },
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "6 6 76 2 10",
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 5 83 2 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1926, Bimonthly Bulletin of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, page 139:",
          "text": "Six varieties gave more shoots from the greater number of pinchings while three had more shoots when pinching was discontinued August 10.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of pinching off new growth."
      ],
      "id": "en-pinching-en-noun-tHdc5Icd",
      "links": [
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          "horticulture",
          "horticulture"
        ],
        [
          "pinch",
          "pinch"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(horticulture) The act of pinching off new growth."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "agriculture",
        "business",
        "horticulture",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 20:",
          "text": "As \"Kings of the Covers,\" they re-recorded happening disks by Elvis (\"Heartbreak Hotel\") […] and, for their most publicly-known pinching, THE JAYHAWKS (\"Stranded In The Jungle\").",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "theft"
      ],
      "id": "en-pinching-en-noun-La9ackAV",
      "links": [
        [
          "theft",
          "theft"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pinching"
}

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    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English verb forms",
    "English verbal nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more pinching",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most pinching",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pinching (comparative more pinching, superlative most pinching)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:",
          "text": "It was one January morning, very early — a pinching, frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That pinches, or causes such a sensation"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pinch",
          "pinch"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pinching"
}

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  "categories": [
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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English verb forms",
    "English verbal nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "pinch"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of pinch"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pinch",
          "pinch#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pinching"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English verb forms",
    "English verbal nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "penny-pinching"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pinchings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pinching (plural pinchings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Paul Theroux, The Lower River:",
          "text": "Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings, such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of one who or that which pinches."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Horticulture"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1926, Bimonthly Bulletin of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, page 139:",
          "text": "Six varieties gave more shoots from the greater number of pinchings while three had more shoots when pinching was discontinued August 10.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of pinching off new growth."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "horticulture",
          "horticulture"
        ],
        [
          "pinch",
          "pinch"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(horticulture) The act of pinching off new growth."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "agriculture",
        "business",
        "horticulture",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 20:",
          "text": "As \"Kings of the Covers,\" they re-recorded happening disks by Elvis (\"Heartbreak Hotel\") […] and, for their most publicly-known pinching, THE JAYHAWKS (\"Stranded In The Jungle\").",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "theft"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "theft",
          "theft"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pinching"
}