bullfinch | (noun) common European finch mostly black and white with red throat and breast | Synonyms: Pyrrhula pyrrhula |
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chaffinch | (noun) small European finch with a cheerful song | Synonyms: Fringilla coelebs |
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chinch | (noun) bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood | Synonyms: bed bug, bedbug, Cimex lectularius |
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cinch | (noun) a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps | - |
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(noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover |
(noun) stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place | Synonyms: girth |
(verb) get a grip on; get mastery of | - |
(verb) make sure of | - |
(verb) tie a cinch around | Synonyms: girth |
clinch | (noun) (boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily | - |
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(noun) a tight or amorous embrace | Synonyms: hug, squeeze |
(noun) the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet | - |
(noun) a small slip noose made with seizing | Synonyms: clench |
(noun) a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together | Synonyms: clamp |
(verb) settle conclusively | - |
(verb) flatten the ends (of nails and rivets) | - |
(verb) secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts | - |
(verb) hold in a tight grasp | Synonyms: clench |
(verb) embrace amorously | - |
(verb) hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches | - |
finch | (noun) any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds | - |
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flinch | (noun) a reflex response to sudden pain | Synonyms: wince |
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(verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
goldfinch | (noun) small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings | Synonyms: Carduelis carduelis |
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(noun) American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer | Synonyms: New World goldfinch, Spinus tristis, yellowbird |
grassfinch | (noun) usually brightly-colored Australian weaverbirds; often kept as cage birds | Synonyms: grass finch |
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hawfinch | (noun) a common large finch of Eurasia | Synonyms: Coccothraustes coccothraustes |
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inch | (noun) a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot | Synonyms: in |
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(noun) a unit of measurement for advertising space | Synonyms: column inch |
(verb) advance slowly, as if by inches | Synonyms: edge |
pinch | (noun) a squeeze with the fingers | Synonyms: tweak |
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(noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, taking into custody |
(noun) a small sharp bite or snip | Synonyms: nip |
(noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action | Synonyms: emergency, exigency |
(noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch |
(noun) an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed | - |
(noun) a painful or straitened circumstance | - |
(verb) irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear | Synonyms: vellicate |
(verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch |
(verb) make ridges into by pinching together | Synonyms: crimp |
(verb) cut the top off | Synonyms: top |
(verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
squinch | (noun) a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire) | - |
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(verb) cross one's eyes as if in strabismus | Synonyms: squint |
(verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, wince |
(verb) crouch down | - |
winch | (noun) lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds | Synonyms: windlass |
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(verb) pull or lift up with or as if with a winch | - |