"knit" meaning in English

See knit in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈnɪt/ Audio: en-uk-knit.ogg Forms: knits [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪt Etymology: From Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic *knutjaną, *knuttijaną (“to make knots, knit”). Cognate with Low German knütten and Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta). More at knot. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|knytten}} Middle English knytten, {{inh|en|ang|cnyttan||to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append}} Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*knuttijan}} Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*knutjaną}} Proto-Germanic *knutjaną, {{cog|nds|knütten}} Low German knütten, {{cog|non|knýta}} Old Norse knýta, {{cog|da|knytte}} Danish knytte, {{cog|nn|knyta}} Norwegian Nynorsk knyta Head templates: {{en-noun}} knit (plural knits)
  1. A knitted garment.
    Sense id: en-knit-en-noun-415j62XH
  2. A session of knitting. Categories (topical): Knitting
    Sense id: en-knit-en-noun-MgRV0bWm Disambiguation of Knitting: 4 39 15 5 3 7 3 6 4 3 11
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: double knit, warp knit

Verb

IPA: /ˈnɪt/ Audio: en-uk-knit.ogg Forms: knits [present, singular, third-person], knitting [participle, present], knit [participle, past], knit [past], knitted [participle, past], knitted [past]
Rhymes: -ɪt Etymology: From Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic *knutjaną, *knuttijaną (“to make knots, knit”). Cognate with Low German knütten and Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta). More at knot. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|knytten}} Middle English knytten, {{inh|en|ang|cnyttan||to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append}} Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*knuttijan}} Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*knutjaną}} Proto-Germanic *knutjaną, {{cog|nds|knütten}} Low German knütten, {{cog|non|knýta}} Old Norse knýta, {{cog|da|knytte}} Danish knytte, {{cog|nn|knyta}} Norwegian Nynorsk knyta Head templates: {{en-verb|knits|knitting|knit|past2=knitted}} knit (third-person singular simple present knits, present participle knitting, simple past and past participle knit or knitted)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) 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. Tags: intransitive, transitive Translations (to make fabric from thread or yarn): brei (Afrikaans), حَاكَ (ḥāka) (Arabic), հյուսել (hyusel) (Armenian), ܣܵܪܹܓ݂ (sārēḡ) (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic), toxumaq (Azerbaijani), бәйләү (bəyləw) (Bashkir), бәйҙәү (bəyləw) (Bashkir), вяза́ць (vjazácʹ) (Belarusian), плета́ (pletá) (Bulgarian), ထိုး (htui:) (Burmese), fer mitja (Catalan), چنین (çnîn) (Central Kurdish), 編織 (Chinese Mandarin), 编织 (biānzhī) (Chinese Mandarin), (Chinese Mandarin), (zhī) (Chinese Mandarin), gwia (Cornish), plést (Czech), strikke (Danish), breien (Dutch), triki (Esperanto), binda (Faroese), neuloa (Finnish), kutoa [regional] (Finnish), tricoter (French), ქსოვა (ksova) (Georgian), stricken (German), πλέκω (pléko) (Greek), סָרַג (sarág) (Hebrew), बुनना (bunnā) (Hindi), köt (Hungarian), prjóna (Icelandic), cniotáil (Irish), lavorare a maglia (Italian), 編む (amu) (alt: あむ) (Japanese), ស្រែះ (sreh) (Khmer), ចាក់ (cak) (Khmer), 뜨다 (tteuda) (Korean), ຖັກ (thak) (Lao), adeit (Latgalian), adīt (Latvian), megzti (Lithuanian), strécken (Luxembourgish), пле́те (pléte) (Macedonian), manao ba (Malagasy), nitiniti (Maori), сүлжих (sülžix) (Mongolian), ouvrer (Norman), strikke (Norwegian), tricotar (Occitan), brocar (Occitan), بافتن (bâftan) (Persian), robić na drutach (Polish), dziać (Polish), tricotar (Portuguese), fazer ponto (Portuguese), tricota (Romanian), împleti (Romanian), croșeta (Romanian), вяза́ть (vjazátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), связа́ть (svjazátʹ) [perfective] (Russian), figh (Scottish Gaelic), плести [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), plesti [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), štrikovať (Slovak), pliesť (Slovak), plesti (Slovene), hacer punto (Spanish), tricotar (Spanish), tejer (Spanish), sticka (Swedish), бофтан (boftan) (Tajik), ถัก (tàk) (Thai), örmek (Turkish), в'яза́ти (vʺjazáty) (Ukrainian), toʻqimoq (Uzbek), đan (Vietnamese), gweu (Welsh), gwau (Welsh)
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  2. (transitive, intransitive) To create a stitch by pulling the working yarn through an existing stitch from back to front. Tags: intransitive, transitive Coordinate_terms (create a stitch by pulling yarn through from back): purl
    Sense id: en-knit-en-verb--TL1hJpQ Disambiguation of 'create a stitch by pulling yarn through from back': 17 63 0 1 1 10 2 2 4
  3. (figuratively, transitive) To join closely and firmly together. Tags: figuratively, transitive Translations (to join closely together): aanmekaarbrei (Afrikaans), сплотявам (splotjavam) (Bulgarian), aaneenbreien (Dutch), hitsata (Finnish), yhdistää (Finnish), souder (French), unir (French), შეერთება (šeerteba) (Georgian), შეზრდა (šezrda) (Georgian), legare (Italian), tūhoto (Maori), soldar (Portuguese), спла́чивать (spláčivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), сплоти́ть (splotítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), asio (Welsh), uno (Welsh), clymu (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-knit-en-verb-UxCMpekK Disambiguation of 'to join closely together': 1 2 46 15 13 3 0 9 11
  4. (intransitive) To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted. Tags: intransitive Translations (intransitive: to become closely joined): aaneengroeien (Dutch), hitsautua (Finnish), yhdistyä (Finnish), saldarsi (Italian), compattare (Italian), soldarse (Spanish), asio [masculine] (Welsh), cyd-dynnu (Welsh), ymasio (Welsh), ymuno (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-knit-en-verb-ncR88N45 Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 6 6 24 5 5 14 5 6 7 4 19 Disambiguation of 'intransitive: to become closely joined': 13 5 11 49 4 3 5 2 7
  5. (intransitive) To grow together. Tags: intransitive
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  6. (transitive) To combine from various elements. Tags: transitive Translations (to combine from various elements): съединявам (sǎedinjavam) (Bulgarian), samenbreien (Dutch), yhdistellä (Finnish), punoa (Finnish), construire (French), élaborer (French), échafauder (French), elaborare (Italian), construir (Portuguese), elaborar (Portuguese), construir (Spanish), elaborar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-knit-en-verb-gAtxDKG- Disambiguation of 'to combine from various elements': 2 4 1 1 0 88 1 1 2
  7. (intransitive, of bones) To heal following a fracture. Tags: intransitive Translations (to heal following a fracture): asio (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-knit-en-verb-Us-YeVKS Disambiguation of 'to heal following a fracture': 4 1 0 1 1 1 89 1 2
  8. (transitive) To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying. Tags: transitive
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  9. (transitive) To draw together; to contract into wrinkles. Tags: transitive
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Related terms: tricot, weave

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "code": "af",
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          "word": "brei"
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          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
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          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "հյուսել"
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          "code": "aii",
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          "roman": "sārēḡ",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "ܣܵܪܹܓ݂"
        },
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          "code": "az",
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          "code": "ba",
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          "word": "бәйләү"
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          "code": "ba",
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          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "бәйҙәү"
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          "code": "be",
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          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "вяза́ць"
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          "code": "bg",
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          "code": "my",
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          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "ထိုး"
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          "code": "ca",
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          "word": "fer mitja"
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          "word": "ქსოვა"
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          "code": "de",
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          "word": "סָרַג"
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        {
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          "code": "hi",
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          "word": "बुनना"
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          "code": "hu",
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          "word": "prjóna"
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          "code": "ga",
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          "word": "cniotáil"
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        {
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          "code": "it",
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          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
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          "alt": "あむ",
          "code": "ja",
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          "word": "編む"
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        {
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          "word": "ស្រែះ"
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        {
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          "code": "km",
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          "word": "ចាក់"
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        {
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          "code": "ko",
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          "roman": "tteuda",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "뜨다"
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        {
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          "code": "ckb",
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          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "چنین"
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        {
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          "code": "lo",
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          "word": "ຖັກ"
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        {
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          "code": "lv",
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        {
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          "code": "mg",
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          "code": "mi",
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          "word": "сүлжих"
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          "code": "nrf",
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        {
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          "code": "no",
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          "word": "strikke"
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        {
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          "code": "oc",
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          "word": "tricotar"
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        {
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          "code": "oc",
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        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "fa",
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          "word": "بافتن"
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          "code": "pl",
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          "word": "robić na drutach"
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        {
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          "code": "pl",
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          "word": "dziać"
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          "code": "pt",
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          "word": "tricotar"
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        {
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        {
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          "word": "tricota"
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "împleti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "croșeta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vjazátʹ",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "вяза́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "svjazátʹ",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "связа́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "figh"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "плести"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "plesti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "štrikovať"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "pliesť"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "plesti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "hacer punto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "tricotar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "tejer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "sticka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "boftan",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "бофтан"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "tàk",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "ถัก"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "örmek"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "vʺjazáty",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "в'яза́ти"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "uz",
          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "toʻqimoq"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "đan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "gweu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 22 0 1 1 13 5 2 5",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
          "word": "gwau"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "17 63 0 1 1 10 2 2 4",
          "sense": "create a stitch by pulling yarn through from back",
          "word": "purl"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Stitches that are knitted look like little V’s when seen from the front.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To create a stitch by pulling the working yarn through an existing stitch from back to front."
      ],
      "id": "en-knit-en-verb--TL1hJpQ",
      "links": [
        [
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        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "stitch",
          "stitch"
        ],
        [
          "yarn",
          "yarn"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To create a stitch by pulling the working yarn through an existing stitch from back to front."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 26”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage\nThy merit hath my duty strongly knit,\nTo thee I send this written embassage,",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 18:1:",
          "text": "And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "Comus",
          "ref": "1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, page 6:",
          "text": "Come, knit hands, and beate the ground\nIn a light fantastick round.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1672, Richard Wiseman, A Treatise of Wounds, London: Richard Royston:",
          "text": "Nature cannot knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXXIX, page 60:",
          "text": "Her office there to rear, to teach,\nBecoming as is meet and fit\nA link among the days, to knit\nThe generations each with each;",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To join closely and firmly together."
      ],
      "id": "en-knit-en-verb-UxCMpekK",
      "links": [
        [
          "join",
          "join"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively, transitive) To join closely and firmly together."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 46 15 13 3 0 9 11",
          "code": "af",
          "lang": "Afrikaans",
          "sense": "to join closely together",
          "word": "aanmekaarbrei"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 46 15 13 3 0 9 11",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "splotjavam",
          "sense": "to join closely together",
          "word": "сплотявам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 46 15 13 3 0 9 11",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to join closely together",
          "word": "aaneenbreien"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 46 15 13 3 0 9 11",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to join closely together",
          "word": "hitsata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 46 15 13 3 0 9 11",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to join closely together",
          "word": "yhdistää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 46 15 13 3 0 9 11",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to join closely together",
          "word": "souder"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 46 15 13 3 0 9 11",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to join closely together",
          "word": "unir"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 46 15 13 3 0 9 11",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "šeerteba",
          "sense": "to join closely together",
          "word": "შეერთება"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 46 15 13 3 0 9 11",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "šezrda",
          "sense": "to join closely together",
          "word": "შეზრდა"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 46 15 13 3 0 9 11",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to join closely together",
          "word": "legare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 46 15 13 3 0 9 11",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to join closely together",
          "word": "tūhoto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 46 15 13 3 0 9 11",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to join closely together",
          "word": "soldar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 46 15 13 3 0 9 11",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "spláčivatʹ",
          "sense": "to join closely together",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "спла́чивать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 46 15 13 3 0 9 11",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "splotítʹ",
          "sense": "to join closely together",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "сплоти́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 46 15 13 3 0 9 11",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "to join closely together",
          "word": "asio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 46 15 13 3 0 9 11",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "to join closely together",
          "word": "uno"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 46 15 13 3 0 9 11",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "to join closely together",
          "word": "clymu"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "6 6 24 5 5 14 5 6 7 4 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted."
      ],
      "id": "en-knit-en-verb-ncR88N45",
      "links": [
        [
          "compact",
          "compact"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "13 5 11 49 4 3 5 2 7",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "intransitive: to become closely joined",
          "word": "aaneengroeien"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "13 5 11 49 4 3 5 2 7",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "intransitive: to become closely joined",
          "word": "hitsautua"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "13 5 11 49 4 3 5 2 7",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "intransitive: to become closely joined",
          "word": "yhdistyä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "13 5 11 49 4 3 5 2 7",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "intransitive: to become closely joined",
          "word": "saldarsi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "13 5 11 49 4 3 5 2 7",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "intransitive: to become closely joined",
          "word": "compattare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "13 5 11 49 4 3 5 2 7",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "intransitive: to become closely joined",
          "word": "soldarse"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "13 5 11 49 4 3 5 2 7",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "intransitive: to become closely joined",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "asio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "13 5 11 49 4 3 5 2 7",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "intransitive: to become closely joined",
          "word": "cyd-dynnu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "13 5 11 49 4 3 5 2 7",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "intransitive: to become closely joined",
          "word": "ymasio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "13 5 11 49 4 3 5 2 7",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "intransitive: to become closely joined",
          "word": "ymuno"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To grow together."
      ],
      "id": "en-knit-en-verb-RRg3WC64",
      "links": [
        [
          "grow",
          "grow"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To grow together."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The witness knitted together his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To combine from various elements."
      ],
      "id": "en-knit-en-verb-gAtxDKG-",
      "links": [
        [
          "combine",
          "combine"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To combine from various elements."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 1 1 0 88 1 1 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "sǎedinjavam",
          "sense": "to combine from various elements",
          "word": "съединявам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 1 1 0 88 1 1 2",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to combine from various elements",
          "word": "samenbreien"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 1 1 0 88 1 1 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to combine from various elements",
          "word": "yhdistellä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 1 1 0 88 1 1 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to combine from various elements",
          "word": "punoa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 1 1 0 88 1 1 2",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to combine from various elements",
          "word": "construire"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 1 1 0 88 1 1 2",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to combine from various elements",
          "word": "élaborer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 1 1 0 88 1 1 2",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to combine from various elements",
          "word": "échafauder"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 1 1 0 88 1 1 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to combine from various elements",
          "word": "elaborare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 1 1 0 88 1 1 2",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to combine from various elements",
          "word": "construir"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 1 1 0 88 1 1 2",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to combine from various elements",
          "word": "elaborar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 1 1 0 88 1 1 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to combine from various elements",
          "word": "construir"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 1 1 0 88 1 1 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to combine from various elements",
          "word": "elaborar"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To heal following a fracture."
      ],
      "id": "en-knit-en-verb-Us-YeVKS",
      "links": [
        [
          "fracture",
          "fracture"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, of bones) To heal following a fracture."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of bones"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "4 1 0 1 1 1 89 1 2",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "to heal following a fracture",
          "word": "asio"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:",
          "text": "When your head did but ache,\nI knit my handkercher about your brows,",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:11:",
          "text": "[He] saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying."
      ],
      "id": "en-knit-en-verb-A-bNpKcF",
      "links": [
        [
          "knot",
          "knot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "6 6 24 5 5 14 5 6 7 4 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:",
          "text": "He knits his brow and shows an angry eye,",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To draw together; to contract into wrinkles."
      ],
      "id": "en-knit-en-verb-rEM9~MaG",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To draw together; to contract into wrinkles."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnɪt/"
    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/En-uk-knit.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪt"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "nit"
    }
  ],
  "word": "knit"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "double knit"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "warp knit"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "knytten"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English knytten",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "cnyttan",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*knuttijan"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*knutjaną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *knutjaną",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nds",
        "2": "knütten"
      },
      "expansion": "Low German knütten",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "knýta"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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      "word": "kutoa"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "tricoter"
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ksova",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "ქსოვა"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "stricken"
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      "code": "el",
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      "word": "πλέκω"
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      "code": "he",
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      "word": "סָרַג"
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      "code": "hi",
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      "roman": "bunnā",
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      "word": "बुनना"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "köt"
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    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "prjóna"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "cniotáil"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "lavorare a maglia"
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      "alt": "あむ",
      "code": "ja",
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      "roman": "amu",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "編む"
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      "code": "km",
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      "word": "ស្រែះ"
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      "code": "km",
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      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "ចាក់"
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      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "tteuda",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "뜨다"
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      "code": "ckb",
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      "word": "چنین"
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      "code": "lo",
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      "word": "ຖັກ"
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      "code": "ltg",
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      "word": "adeit"
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      "word": "adīt"
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      "code": "lt",
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      "word": "megzti"
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      "code": "lb",
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      "word": "strécken"
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      "code": "mk",
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      "word": "пле́те"
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      "code": "mg",
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      "code": "mi",
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      "word": "nitiniti"
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      "code": "mn",
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      "word": "сүлжих"
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      "code": "nrf",
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      "word": "ouvrer"
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      "code": "no",
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      "word": "strikke"
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      "code": "oc",
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      "word": "tricotar"
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      "code": "oc",
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      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "brocar"
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      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "bâftan",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "بافتن"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "robić na drutach"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "dziać"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "tricotar"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "fazer ponto"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "tricota"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "împleti"
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      "code": "ro",
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      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "croșeta"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "вяза́ть"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "связа́ть"
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      "code": "gd",
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      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "figh"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "плести"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "sk",
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      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "štrikovať"
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    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "pliesť"
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      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "plesti"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "hacer punto"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "tricotar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "tejer"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "sticka"
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      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "boftan",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "бофтан"
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      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "tàk",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "ถัก"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "örmek"
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vʺjazáty",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "в'яза́ти"
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      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "toʻqimoq"
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "đan"
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      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "gweu"
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    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to make fabric from thread or yarn",
      "word": "gwau"
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      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "to join closely together",
      "word": "aanmekaarbrei"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "splotjavam",
      "sense": "to join closely together",
      "word": "сплотявам"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to join closely together",
      "word": "aaneenbreien"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to join closely together",
      "word": "hitsata"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to join closely together",
      "word": "yhdistää"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "to join closely together",
      "word": "souder"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to join closely together",
      "word": "unir"
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "šeerteba",
      "sense": "to join closely together",
      "word": "შეერთება"
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      "code": "ka",
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      "roman": "šezrda",
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      "word": "შეზრდა"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "to join closely together",
      "word": "legare"
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to join closely together",
      "word": "tūhoto"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "to join closely together",
      "word": "soldar"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "spláčivatʹ",
      "sense": "to join closely together",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "спла́чивать"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "splotítʹ",
      "sense": "to join closely together",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to join closely together",
      "word": "asio"
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    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to join closely together",
      "word": "uno"
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    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to join closely together",
      "word": "clymu"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "intransitive: to become closely joined",
      "word": "aaneengroeien"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "intransitive: to become closely joined",
      "word": "hitsautua"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "intransitive: to become closely joined",
      "word": "yhdistyä"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "intransitive: to become closely joined",
      "word": "saldarsi"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "intransitive: to become closely joined",
      "word": "compattare"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "intransitive: to become closely joined",
      "word": "soldarse"
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      "code": "cy",
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      "code": "cy",
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      "sense": "intransitive: to become closely joined",
      "word": "cyd-dynnu"
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      "code": "cy",
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      "code": "cy",
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      "sense": "intransitive: to become closely joined",
      "word": "ymuno"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sǎedinjavam",
      "sense": "to combine from various elements",
      "word": "съединявам"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "word": "samenbreien"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "word": "yhdistellä"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to combine from various elements",
      "word": "punoa"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "to combine from various elements",
      "word": "construire"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to combine from various elements",
      "word": "élaborer"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to combine from various elements",
      "word": "échafauder"
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      "code": "it",
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      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to heal following a fracture",
      "word": "asio"
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    "en:Knitting"
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      "word": "double knit"
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          "text": "There are grey Grecian tops and a light, sheer, silver cardigan. Stylish dark grey tailored trousers, silver thongs and shiny jet-black stilettos. Black sheer blouses with squared bib fronts, and expensive-looking black and dark grey woollen knits.",
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  "title": "knit",
  "trace": ""
}

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