Definitions for "Pinch"
To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.
To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.
To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.
a painful or straitened circumstance; "the pinch of the recession"
Keywords:  seize, bite, vellicate, nip, sharp
to seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.
To seize by way of theft; to steal; to lift.
small sharp biting
Keywords:  dash, inexact, taste, small, known
See "dash."
A small, inexact amount also known as a dash or "to taste."
Same as "dash."
Keywords:  pang, pian
Pian; pang.
Keywords:  sail, luff, sailboat, wind, flap
To pull a sail too tight or head the bow of a boat into the wind too much so that the sail begins to luff and boat speed is lost
to sail as close as possible towards the wind
A point of sail very near the wind, not usually fast or efficient.
A pinch is the compression of an electrically conducting filament by magnetic forces. The conductor is usually a plasma, but could also be a solid or liquid metal. In a z-pinch, the current is axial (in the z direction in a cylindrical coordinate system) and the magnetic field azimuthal; in a theta-pinch, the current is azimuthal (in the theta direction in cylindrical coordinates) and the magnetic field is axial.
A Pinch is a machine used to study plasmas, specifically fusion plasmas. A pinch must statisfy the equilibrium ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations, a series of equations that describe the motion of magnetized fluids. The equilibrium version of the ideal MHD equations describe magnetic configurations that lead to a steady state.
Keywords:  muzzle, indentation, cheek, break, line
A break in the straight lines of the muzzle.
Indentation in the line of the muzzle below cheek bones.
Pinch is the current drummer in punk band The Damned. He has been with the band since 1999 and is from Grantham, Lincolnshire where he attended the King's School, where he was a founder member of the English Dogs.
Keywords:  plait
To plait.
Keywords:  niggardly, covetous, spare
To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.
To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.
A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.
Pinch wheel paper feed mechanism
Keywords:  bushiness, axillary, tip, grow, buds
To remove the growing tip of the plant, or cutting, to produce bushiness.
vt To remove the growing tip of a stem.
breaking off the terminal growing point of a plant to encourage axillary buds to grow.
to arrest
a device which creates, like, a cardiac arrest for any broadband electrical circuitry
the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"
a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action; "he never knew what to do in an emergency"
a slight but appreciable addition; "this dish could use a touch of garlic"
Keywords:  bushes, trees, cut, off, top
cut the top off; "top trees and bushes"
Keywords:  chop, thing, related, see
see Chop (not the same thing, but related)
Keywords:  ridges, together
make ridges into by pinching together
Keywords:  wager, dealt, remove, cards, money
To remove money from a wager after the cards have been dealt. This is not allowed.
Keywords:  dollars, five
Five dollars.
Keywords:  belongings, off, others
make off with belongings of others