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# knit

«knit» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make clothes or other things from wool or yarn by…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (knit, knits, knitted or knit, knitting); noun (a knit — a knitted piece of clothing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To make clothes or other things from wool or yarn by looping it together with two long needles or a machine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knit/#m1)

2) Of broken bones: to join and grow back together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knit/#m2)

3) «Knit your brows» means to frown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knit/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In design and technology or craft clubs children learn to knit scarves; grannies often knit jumpers. In science lessons on the body: a broken bone knits together as it heals. Phrases: «knitting needles», «a close-knit family» (a family who are very close to each other).

### examples

- Granny knitted me a woolly hat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knit/#x1)
- I'm learning to knit with big needles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knit/#x2)
- She knits while she watches TV. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knit/#x3)
- The broken bone will knit together in six weeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knit/#x4)
- We are a close-knit family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knit/#x5)
- He knitted his eyebrows and thought hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knit/#x6)
- This jumper is a warm knit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knit/#x7)
- Marko, his brows knit, his legs contorted, was scarcely able to hold out.[60] [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knit/#x8)

### note

The «k» is silent: say «nit». Past: «knitted» (usual for wool) or «knit» (often for bones and in «close-knit»). Homophone: «nit» (the egg of a head louse). Knitting uses needles; crochet uses one hook.

### In the corpora

- [People of all ages knit; the British Olympic diver Tom Daley was filmed knitting between events at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/31-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime/11/)
- [Example: Grandma knits you a jumper you do not like and asks if you like it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/2/)
- [So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.590/)
- [For Thou hast made my reins; Thou hast knit me together in my mother's womb.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2537/)
- [Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.245/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «knit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.