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clinch

  [klinch]
Use clinch in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to settle (a matter) decisively: After they clinched the deal they went out to celebrate.
2. to secure (a nail, screw, etc.) in position by beating down the protruding point: He drove the nails through the board and clinched the points flat with a hammer.
3. to fasten (objects) together by nails, screws, etc., secured in this manner.
4. Nautical. to fasten by a clinch.
–verb (used without object)
5. Boxing. to engage in a clinch: The boxers clinched and were separated by the referee.
6. Slang. to embrace, esp. passionately.
7. (of a clinched nail, screw, etc.) to hold fast; be secure.
–noun
8. the act of clinching.
9. Boxing. an act or instance of one or both boxers holding the other about the arms or body in order to prevent or hinder the opponent's punches.
10. Slang. a passionate embrace.
11. a clinched nail or fastening.
12. the bent part of a clinched nail, screw, etc.
13. a knot or bend in which a bight or eye is made by making a loop or turn in the rope and seizing the end to the standing part.
14. Archaic. a pun.
Also, clench (for defs. 1–4, 9, 11, 12).

Origin:
1560–70; later var. of ME clench

Related forms:
clinch⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. cinch, secure, close, conclude, confirm.
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clinch   (klĭnch)   


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v.   clinched, clinch·ing, clinch·es

v.   tr.
    1. To fix or secure (a nail or bolt, for example) by bending down or flattening the pointed end that protrudes.
    2. To fasten together in this way.
  2. To settle definitely and conclusively; make final: "The cocktail circuit is a constant and more contracts are clinched over pâté than over paper" (Ann L. Trebbe).
  3. Sports To secure (a divisional championship, for instance) before the end of regular season play by having an insurmountable lead.
  4. Nautical To fasten with a clinch.
v.   intr.
  1. To be held together securely.
  2. Sports To hold a boxing opponent's body with one or both arms to prevent or hinder punches.
  3. Slang To embrace amorously.
n.  
  1. Something, such as a clamp, that clinches.
  2. The clinched part of a nail, bolt, or rivet.
  3. Sports An act or instance of clinching in boxing.
  4. Nautical A knot in a rope made by a half hitch with the end of the rope fastened back by seizing. Also called clench.
  5. Slang An amorous embrace.

[Variant of clench.]
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Clinch

Clinch\ (kl[i^]nch; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clinched; p. pr. & vb. n. Clinching.] [OE. clenchen, prop. causative of clink to cause to clink, to strike; cf. D. klinken to tinkle, rivet. See Clink.]

1. To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. "Clinch the pointed spear." --Dryden.

2. To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first. --Swift.

3. To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.

4. To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument. --South.

Clinch

Clinch\, v. i. To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.

Clinch

Clinch\ (kl[i^]nch), n. 1. The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.

2. A pun. --Pope.

3. (Naut.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : clinch
Spanish: cerrar,
German: zum Abschluß bringen,
Japanese: 決着する
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clinch 
1570, "clasp, interlock," var. of clench. The sense of "settle decisively" is first recorded 1716, from the notion of "clinching" the point of a nail to keep it fast. Boxing sense is from 1860.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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