cinch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /sɪntʃ/    美 /sɪntʃ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
    — He found Andy morosely replacing some broken strands in his cinch, and he went straight at the mooted question.
  2. A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called "right Pedro") and the five of the same colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.
  3. An RCA connector. Europe
  4. Something that is very easy to do. informal
    — We thought we had a cinch on getting out by way of this cord and so we followed that.
  5. Something that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing. informal
    — As a matter of fact, from the look of Elmer's shoulder, it wasn't a cinch that he would ever pitch again.
  6. A firm hold. informal
    — You've got the cinch on him. You could send him to quod, and I'd send him there as quick as lightning. I'd hang him, if I could, for what he done to Lil Sarnia.
动词 v.
  1. To bring to certain conclusion.
  2. In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
  3. To tighten down.
    — He let Sandy stand for a minute and then took the saddle off. Several more of these saddlings and unsaddlings followed. Then finally the saddle was cinched. Again Sandy repeated his pattern of calming down after the first unfamiliarity of a new experience had worn off. […] Before long Sandy accepted the saddle as if he’d been born with one on his back.

词形变化

cinches plural cinches present,singular,third-person cinching participle,present cinched participle,past cinched past cinches plural cinches present,singular,third-person cinching participle,present cinched participle,past cinched past

词汇关系

近义词
breeze
衍生词
Hungarian cinch lead-pipe cinch cinchable cincher cinchy uncinch

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Occitan cencha, from Latin cincta, or from Spanish cincha (“a belt or girth”), from Late Latin cingula, from Latin cingulum. Doublet of cingle.
词源 2
Compare senses at etymology 1 (a girth, a tight grip), perhaps suggesting the tactics used in the game; or perhaps from Spanish cinco (“five”), the five spots of the colour of the trump being important cards.
词源 3
Uncertain; perhaps from Cinch Connectors, a Chicago-based company producing connectors.
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