Definition of clinches Clinches
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What does clinches mean?
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
NounPlural: clinches |
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| clinch - a small slip noose made with seizing | ||
| clench | ||
| running noose, slip noose, noose a loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot; it binds tighter as the cord or rope is pulled | ||
| watercraft, vessel skill in the management of boats | ||
| double clinch a clinch with two loops | ||
| inside clinch a clinch with the end of the line inside the loop | ||
| clinch - the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet | ||
| holdfast, fastener, fastening, fixing restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | ||
| nail a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener | ||
| bolt a sudden abandonment (as from a political party) | ||
| clinch - (boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily | ||
| evasive action, maneuver, manoeuvre an action aimed at evading an opponent | ||
| clinch - a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together | ||
| clamp | ||
| holding device a device for holding something | ||
| bench clamp a clamp used to hold work in place on a workbench | ||
| c-clamp a clamp in the shape of the letter C | ||
| cramp a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together | ||
| pipe clamp, pipe vise a clamp for holding pipe that is to be cut or threaded | ||
| clinch - a tight or amorous embrace; "come here and give me a big hug" | ||
| hug, squeeze | ||
| embracement, embracing, embrace a close affectionate and protective acceptance; "his willing embrace of new ideas"; "in the bosom of the family" | ||
Verb |
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| clinch - secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts; "The girder was clinched into the wall" | ||
| clinch settle conclusively; "clinch a deal" | ||
| fasten, secure, fix attach to; "They fastened various nicknames to each other" | ||
| clinch - settle conclusively; "clinch a deal" | ||
| square off, square up, determine, settle even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing | ||
| clinch - flatten the ends (of nails and rivets); "the nails were clinched" | ||
| fasten, secure, fix attach to; "They fastened various nicknames to each other" | ||
| clinch - embrace amorously | ||
| bosom, hug, embrace, squeeze hide in one's bosom; "She bosomed his letters" | ||
| clinch - hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches | ||
| take hold, hold assume control | ||
| clinch - hold in a tight grasp; "clench a steering wheel" | ||
| clench | ||
| prehend, clutch, seize affect; "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unbearable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- clinch (Noun)
Any of several fastenings. - clinch (Noun)
The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip or grasp. - clinch (Noun)
A pun. - clinch (Noun)
A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts. - clinch (Noun)
A passionate embrace. - clinch (Verb)
To clasp; to interlock. - clinch (Verb)
To make certain; to finalize. - clinch (Verb)
To fasten securely or permanently. - clinch (Verb)
To bend and hammer the point of a nail so it cannot be removed. - clinch (Verb)
To embrace passionately.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- clinch (v. t.)
To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. - clinch (v. t.)
To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first. - clinch (v. t.)
To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail. - clinch (v. t.)
To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument. - clinch (v. i.)
To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another. - clinch (n.)
The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch. - clinch (n.)
A pun. - clinch (n.)
A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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clinch
To hold in a tight grasp.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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clinch
klinsh, Clench, klensh, v.t. to fasten or rivet a nail by bending the point and beating the bent part flat against the object through which the nail was driven: to grasp tightly: to set firmly, as the teeth: to fasten on: (fig.) to drive home an argument: to settle or confirm.—n. something set firmly: the fastening of a nail by beating it back, as in the verb: a pun.—n. Clinch′er, one that clinches: a decisive argument.—adj. Clinch′er-built (same as Clinker-built).—n. Clinch′er-work, the disposition of the side planks of a vessel, when the lower edge of one row overlaps the row next under it. [Causal form of klink, to strike smartly; Dut. and Ger. klinken, to rivet a bolt.]
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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clinch
that part of a cable, or other rope, which is fastened to the ring of the anchor.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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clinch
A particular method of fastening large ropes by a half hitch, with the end stopped back to its own part by seizings; it is chiefly to fasten the hawsers suddenly to the rings of the kedges or small anchors; and the breechings of guns to the ring-bolts in the ship's side. Those parts of a rope or cable which are clinched. Thus the outer end is "bent" by the clinch to the ring of the anchor. The inner or tier-clinch in the good old times was clinched to the main-mast, passing under the tier beams (where it was unlawfully, as regards the custom of the navy, clinched). Thus "the cable runs out to the clinch," means, there is no more to veer.--To clinch is to batter or rivet a bolt's end upon a ring or piece of plate iron; or to turn back the point of a nail that it may hold fast. (See CLENCH.)
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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clinch
A pun or quibble. To clinch, or to clinch the nail; to confirm an improbable story by another: as, A man swore he drove a tenpenny nail through the moon; a bystander said it was true, for he was on the other side and clinched it.
