knit together

verb (used with object)

to make (a garment, fabric, etc.) by interlocking loops of one or more yarns either by hand with knitting needles or by machine.

to join closely and firmly, as members or parts (often followed by together ): The tragedy knitted the family closer together.

to contract into folds or wrinkles: to knit the brow.

to form or create from diverse sources or elements: She knitted her play from old folk tales and family anecdotes.

verb (used without object)

to become closely and firmly joined together; grow together, as broken bones do.

to contract into folds or wrinkles, as the brow.

to become closely and intimately united.

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noun

fabric produced by knitting.

a knitted garment.

10.

a style or type of knitting.

11.

the basic stitch in knitting, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn forward through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare purl¹ ( def 3 ).

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English knitte, Old English cnyttan to tie; cognate with German knütten; see knot¹

Related forms

knit·ta·ble, adjective

knit·ter, noun

pre·knit, verb (used with object), pre·knit·ted or pre·knit, pre·knit·ting.

re·knit, verb, re·knit·ted or re·knit, re·knit·ting.

Synonyms
2. bind, link, unite.

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World English Dictionary

knit (nɪt)

—vb , knits, knitting, knitted, knit
1.	to make (a garment, etc) by looping and entwining (yarn, esp wool) by hand by means of long eyeless needles (knitting needles) or by machine (knitting machine)
2.	to join or be joined together closely
3.	to draw (the brows) together or (of the brows) to come together, as in frowning or concentrating
4.	(of a broken bone) to join together; heal

—n
5.	a. a fabric or garment made by knitting
	b. (in combination): a heavy knit

[Old English cnyttan to tie in; related to Middle Low German knütten to knot together; see knot¹]

'knittable

—*adj*

'knitter

—n

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Word Origin & History

knit

O.E. cnyttan "to tie with a knot, bind, fasten," related to O.N. knytja, M.L.G. knütten "to tie, knot," O.E. cnotta "a knot," from P.Gmc. *knuttjan, from stem *knutt-. Of brows, late 14c. Meaning "to do knitting" (especially plain stitch) is from 1530. Knitting "knitted work" attested from 1880.

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"Now you know very well that there are no less than fifty-eight different pieces in a violin. These pieces are strangers to each other, and it takes a century, more or less, to make them thoroughly acquainted. At last they learn to vibrate in harmony, and the instrument becomes an organic whole, as if it were a great seed-capsule which had grown from a garden-bed in Cremona, or elsewhere. Besides, the wood is juicy and full of sap for fifty years or so, but at the end of fifty or hundred years gets tolerably dry and comparatively resonant. Don't you see that all this is just as true of a poem? Counting each word as a piece, there are more pieces in an average copy of verses than in a violin. The poet has forced all these words together, and fastened them, and they don't understand it at first. But let the poem be repeated aloud and murmured over in the mind's muffled whisper often enough, and at length the parts become knit together in such absolute solidarity that you could not change a syllable without the whole world's crying out against you for meddling with the harmonious fabric. Observe, too, how the drying process takes place in the stuff of a poem just as in that of a violin."

-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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