| 单词 | tight-knit | 
| 释义 | > as lemmastight-knit   tight-knit adj. connected in a closely-bound structure; (also figurative) bonded or united in a close, cohesive relationship; cf. close-knit adj. at close adj. and adv. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1832    Satirist 19 Feb. 60/1  				For working-day strength, we know of no one to compare with that tight-knit frame of his. 1839    G. Stephens tr.  E. Tegnér Frithiof's Saga  ii. 24  				Their truefast union, In weal and woe the same,..More tight-knit, still, became. 1928    G. C. La Master New Genetics ii. 56  				Firm tight knit muscles are stronger than the loose kind. 1933    N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 360  				The tight-knit world must flinch in every mile concertedly aghast at each diverse atrocity. 1958    Times 24 Sept. 3/3  				The playwrights who have contributed to it [sc. non-realist drama] are anything but a tight-knit group. 1992    M. Anderson Impostors in Temple iv. 120  				The academic intellectuals have developed such a tight-knit scheme of intellectual logrolling that their evaluations of the merits of scholarly work have become..worthless. 2017    Daily Tel. 		(Nexis)	 13 July 18  				After a six-month break, I returned to a new, kinder and more tight-knit speciality—palliative care. < as lemmas | 
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