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View synonyms for knitting

knitting

[ nit-ing ]

noun

  1. the act of a person or thing that knits.
  2. the act of forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.


knitting

/ ˈnɪtɪŋ /

noun

    1. knitted work or the process of producing it
    2. ( as modifier )

      a knitting machine

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of knitting1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; knit, -ing 1
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. stick / tend to one's knitting,
    1. to mind one's own business:

      Don't worry about my work—just tend to your knitting.

    2. to devote oneself to one's assignments or responsibilities:

      Years of sticking to his knitting finally paid off.

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Example Sentences

Some people have taken up knitting to deal with our increasingly homebound lives during the coronavirus pandemic.

The sky’s the limit and winter’s long, so get your needles and get knitting.

Nearby was her purple reflective yarn for knitting and a pencil drawing of Heather.

His British-born mother ran a knitting business from the tenement where he grew up with three siblings.

To manage the complexity, we divided the tasks, each knitting half of the necessary polygonal faces before we sewed all the pieces together.

More than secular nationalist movements or industrial interests or mental illness or knitting groups?

She could have auditioned to be the tavern wench or a faerie; instead, she signed on as a merchant, knitting chain-mail bikinis.

Fanning, ever the old soul, returned the gestures by knitting the veteran actors scarves.

I had a lot of knitted caps courtesy of the hospital volunteers and even my own knitting.

Sure, they have the knitting around the ankles and the waistbands.

Mrs. Ducksmith gathered up her knitting and retired, Aristide dashing to the door to open it for her.

Mrs. Ducksmith shot a timid glance at him and the knitting needles clicked together nervously.

Mrs. Ducksmith blushed and, to conceal her face, bent it over her resumed knitting.

"Oh," she exclaimed carelessly, and went on knitting, drawing closer to the lamplight.

They found the old woman alone, knitting in her rustic chair in her floral bower on the roof.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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