boxing The act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily.

Roget 563: neology, neologism; newfangled expression, nonce expression; back-formation; caconym^†; barbarism.    archaism, black letter, monkish Latin.    corruption, missaying^†, malapropism, antiphrasis^†.    pun, paranomasia^†, play upon words; word play etc. (wit) 842; double-entendre [Fr.] etc. (ambiguity) 520; palindrome, paragram^†, anagram, clinch; abuse of language, abuse of terms.    dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism, localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism^†; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir.    dog Latin, macaronics^†, gibberish; confusion of tongues, Babel; babu English^†, chi-chi.    figure of speech etc. (metaphor) 521; byword.    colloquialism, informal speech, informal language.    substandard language, vernacular.    vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity.    jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot; St.    Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang.    pseudology^†.    pseudonym etc. (misnomer) 565; Mr.    So-and-so; wha d'ye call 'em^†, whatchacallim, what's his name; thingummy^†, thingumbob; je ne sais quoi [Fr.].    neologist^†, coiner of words.    ... meer laten zien

Pools: zwarcie

A small slip noose made with seizing.

synoniem: clench.

The flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet.

A device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together.

synoniem: clamp.

Nederlands: lijmklem, lijmknecht, lijmpers, lijmschroef, lijmtang, sergeant
Pools: zaciskacz

A tight or amorous embrace.

synoniemen: hug, squeeze.

Nederlands: knuffel
Pools: objęcie, uścisk

Secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts.

Roget 261: close, occlude, plug; block up, stop up, fill up, bung up, cork up, button up, stuff up, shut up, dam up; blockade, obstruct etc. (hinder) 706; bar, bolt, stop, seal, plumb; choke, throttle; ram down, dam, cram; trap, clinch; put to the door, shut the door.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 729: effect, effectuate; accomplish, achieve, compass, consummate, hammer out; bring to maturity, bring to perfection; perfect, complete; elaborate.    do, execute, make; go through, get through; work out, enact; bring about, bring to bear, bring to pass, bring through, bring to a head.    despatch, dispatch; knock off, finish off, polish off; make short work of; dispose of, set at rest; perform, discharge, fulfill, realize; put in practice, put in force; carry out, carry into effect, carry into execution; make good; be as good as one's word.    do thoroughly, not do by halves, go the whole hog; drive home; be in at the death etc. (persevere) 604.1; carry through, play out, exhaust; fill the bill [U.S.].    finish, bring to a close etc. (end) 67; wind up, stamp, clinch, seal, set the seal on, put the seal; give the final touch etc. n.. to; put the last, put the finishing hand to, put the finishing touches on; crown, crown all; cap.    ripen, culminate; come to a head, come to a crisis; come to its end; die a natural death, die of old age; run its course, run one's race; touch the goal, reach the goal, attain the goal; reach etc. (arrive) 292; get in the harvest.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 474: be certain etc. adj.; stand to reason.    render certain etc. adj.; insure, ensure, assure; clinch, make sure; determine, decide, set at rest, make assurance double sure" [Macbeth]; know etc. (believe) 484.    dogmatize, lay down the law.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 43: join, unite; conjoin, connect; associate; put together, lay together, clap together, hang together, lump together, hold together, piece together [Fr.], tack together, fix together, bind up together together; embody, reembody^†; roll into one.    attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast etc. adj.; tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, stitch, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter etc. (restrain) 751; lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple^†, link, yoke, bracket; marry etc. (wed) 903; bridge over, span.    braze; pin, nail, bolt, hasp, clasp, clamp, crimp, screw, rivet; impact, solder, set; weld together, fuse together; wedge, rabbet, mortise, miter, jam, dovetail, enchase^†; graft, ingraft^†, inosculate^†; entwine, intwine^†; interlink, interlace, intertwine, intertwist^†, interweave; entangle; twine round, belay; tighten; trice up, screw up.    be joined &c.; hang together, hold together; cohere etc. 46.    ... meer laten zien

Hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches.

Hold in a tight grasp.

synoniem: clench.

Roget 789: take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket; receive; accept.    reap, crop, cull, pluck; gather etc. (get) 775; draw.    appropriate, expropriate, impropriate^†; assume, possess oneself of; take possession of; commandeer; lay one's hands on, clap one's hands on; help oneself to; make free with, dip one's hands into, lay under contribution; intercept; scramble for; deprive of.    take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off; adeem^†; abstract; hurry off with, run away with; abduct; steal etc. 791; ravish; seize; pounce upon, spring upon; swoop to, swoop down upon; take by storm, take by assault; snatch, reave^†.    snap up, nip up, whip up, catch up; kidnap, crimp, capture, lay violent hands on.    get hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, catch hold of, lay fast hold of, take firm hold of; lay by the heels, take prisoner; fasten upon, grip, grapple, embrace, gripe, clasp, grab, clutch, collar, throttle, take by the throat, claw, clinch, clench, make sure of.    catch at, jump at, make a grab at, snap at, snatch at; reach, make a long arm, stretch forth one's hand.    take from, take away from; disseize^†; deduct etc. 38; retrench etc. (curtail) 201; dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp; tear from, tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from; extort; deprive of, bereave; disinherit, cut off with a shilling.    oust etc. (eject) 297; divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate; accroach^†; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume^†, impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb etc. (suck in) 296; draw off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech.    retake, resume; recover etc. 775.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 781: retain, keep; hold fast one's own, hold tight one's own, hold fast one's ground, hold tight one's ground; clinch, clench, clutch, grasp, gripe, hug, have a firm hold of.    secure, withhold, detain; hold back, keep back; keep close; husband etc. (store) 636; reserve; have in stock, have on hand, keep in stock etc. (possess) 777; entail, tie up, settle.    ... meer laten zien

Embrace amorously.

Flatten the ends (of nails and rivets).

Nederlands: samenklinken, vastklinken

Settle conclusively.