knitting

Speech parts

1. knitting - Noun

2. knitting - Verb

Derived from knit

Meaning

of Knit

The work of a knitter; the network formed by knitting.

Union formed by knitting, as of bones.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

knit knitwork needlework cockle braid hosiery rumple contract link binding bond gather pin blend merge
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Antonyms

cleave fork separate split divide partition
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Hypernyms

handicraft needlework needlecraft

Phrases with the word

stick to one's knitting attend to one's knitting attend to one's own knitting stick to one's own knitting tend to one's knitting tend to one's own knitting

Examples

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love. Edvard Munch

I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting. Gerald Durrell

I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents-conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting. Robert Charles Wilson

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are. Tony Curtis

Marriages should culminate on account of the wishes of the couple. It is their knitting of the hearts that should lead to marriages. Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again. Dorothy Day

Close letter words and terms

knitten knitter knitter's stitch knitting arrow knitting awl knitting bolt