clinch

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of several fastenings.
  2. The act of bending and hammering the point of a nail so it cannot be removed.
  3. The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast.
    — to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon
  4. A pun. obsolete
  5. 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.
  6. A passionate embrace.
    — More likely, he was letting her know that his visit this morning was not going to end in a clinch—or something steamier. It was going to be about sitting at a table, drinking coffee and talking.
  7. The act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engage in standup grappling.
  8. A prison sentence. archaic,slang
    — COOMBE: He got the clinch only last week — eighteen months. You see it's no good having anybody here as ain't got a^([sic]) unblemished character. We don't want to have the bluebottles come sniffing round here, do we?
动词 v.
  1. To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.
  2. To clasp; to interlock.
    — “Beloved shipmates, clinch the last verse of the first chapter of Jonah—‘And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.’”
  3. To fasten securely or permanently.
  4. To make certain; to finalize.
    — I already planned to buy the car, but the color was what really clinched it for me.
  5. To hold firmly; to clench
  6. To set closely together; to close tightly.
    — to clinch the teeth or the fist
  7. To hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to avoid being hit while resting momentarily
  8. To secure a spot (e.g., at the divisional championship) before the end of regular season play by having an insurmountable lead.
    — It put the U.S. on the brink of clinching a spot in the quarterfinals.
  9. To embrace passionately.

词形变化

clinches present,singular,third-person clinching participle,present clinched participle,past clinched past clinches plural

词汇关系

词源

词源 1
16th-century alteration of clench.
词源 2
16th-century alteration of clench.
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