pinch

pinch

pinch (third-person singular simple present pinches, present participle pinching, simple past and past participle pinched)

1. To squeeze a small amount of a persons skin and flesh, making it hurt.
2. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
3. To arrest or capture.
4. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
5. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.

pinch (plural pinches)

1. The action of squeezing a small amount of a persons skin and flesh, making it hurt.
2. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
3. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
   • 1955, Rex Stout, ""Die Like a Dog"", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 171:

     It took nerve and muscle both to carry the body out and down the stairs to the lower hall, but he damn well had to get it out of his place and away from his door, and any of those four could have done it in a pinch, and it sure was a pinch.

4. An organic herbal smoke additive.

	pizzicare
	to squeeze a small amount of skin

	pizzico
	action of squeezing a small amount of skin
	small amount of powder

stringere

	acciuffare
	to arrest or capture

	avvicinare le dita
	A zoom out gesture represented by two fingers with at least one of them moving towards the other finger at any angle, within an acceptable tolerance.

accelerare

angustia

caricare

compressione

fregare

furto

grattare

insistere

pizzicotto

premere

presa

pungere

punta

rubare

schiacciarsi

serrare

strappare

stretta

tormentare

Altri significati:

To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.

To arrest or capture.

An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.

someone in a tight pinch

(nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.

to steal

A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.

(horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.

An organic herbal smoke additive.

To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

nautical: to sail close-hauled

The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

Traduzione 'veloce'

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