英语词汇“knit”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

verb | adjective | noun

knitknit1 /nɪt/ ●●○ verb (past tense and past participle knit or knitted, present participle knitting)

ETYMOLOGYknit¹

Origin: Old English cnyttan

VERB TABLE

knit

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	knit
	he, she, it	knits
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	knitted, knit
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have knitted, knit
	he, she, it	has knitted, knit
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had knitted, knit
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will knit
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have knitted, knit

Continuous Form
Present	I	am knitting
	he, she, it	is knitting
	you, we, they	are knitting
Past	I, he, she, it	was knitting
	you, we, they	were knitting
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been knitting
	he, she, it	has been knitting
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been knitting
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be knitting
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been knitting

1[intransitive, transitive] to make clothing, blankets, etc. out of thread or yarn (=thick thread) using two knitting needles or a special machine → crochet: knit somebody something Mom knit me a pair of socks.2knit your brows literary to show you are worried, thinking hard, etc. by moving your eyebrows together3[intransitive] a bone that knits after being broken grows into one piece again: knit together A pin holds the bones in place while they knit together.4[intransitive] technical to use a plain (=basic) knitting stitch → purl [Origin: Old English cnyttan]—knitter noun [countable] → see also close-knit, loose-knit, tight-knitknit together phrasal verb knit somebody/something ↔ together if something knits people, things, or ideas together, or if they knit together, they join together or become more closely related: Worries about the future knit the family more closely together.