'Pinch' definitions:
Definition of 'pinch'
(from WordNet)
noun
A painful or straitened circumstance; "the pinch of the recession"
noun
An injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
noun
A slight but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic" [syn: touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon]
noun
A sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action; "he never knew what to do in an emergency" [syn: emergency, exigency, pinch]
noun
A small sharp bite or snip [syn: nip, pinch]
noun
A squeeze with the fingers [syn: pinch, tweak]
noun
The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar" [syn: apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody]
verb
Squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle" [syn: pinch, squeeze, twinge, tweet, nip, twitch]
verb
Make ridges into by pinching together [syn: crimp, pinch]
verb
Make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift]
verb
Cut the top off; "top trees and bushes" [syn: top, pinch]
verb
Irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear; "smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth"; "the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back" [syn: pinch, vellicate]
Definition of 'Pinch'
From: GCIDE
- Pinch \Pinch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pinched; p. pr. & vb. n. Pinching.] [F. pincer, probably fr. OD. pitsen to pinch; akin to G. pfetzen to cut, pinch; perhaps of Celtic origin. Cf. Piece.]
- 1. To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies. [1913 Webster]
- 2. to seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To plait. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Full seemly her wimple ipinched was. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money. [1913 Webster]
- Want of room . . . pinching a whole nation. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To seize by way of theft; to steal; to lift. [Slang] --Robert Barr. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 7. to catch; to arrest (a criminal). [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Pinch'
From: GCIDE
- Pinch \Pinch\, n.
- 1. A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip. [1913 Webster]
- 2. As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Pian; pang. "Necessary's sharp pinch." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar. [1913 Webster]
- At a pinch, On a pinch, in an emergency; as, he could on a pinch read a little Latin. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pinch'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstract,
- ace,
- acute pain,
- afflict,
- agonize,
- ail,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- and,
- annex,
- apprehend,
- apprehension,
- approach,
- appropriate,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- atom,
- backup,
- bag,
- bare cupboard,
- bare subsistence,
- beat,
- beat to windward,
- beggarliness,
- beggary,
- begrudge,
- bind,
- bit,
- bite,
- boost,
- boring pain,
- borrow,
- breakers ahead,
- burglary,
- burn,
- bust,
- caper,
- capture,
- cardhouse,
- catch,
- cause for alarm,
- center,
- centralize,
- chafe,
- charley horse,
- clamp,
- clamping,
- clamping down,
- climacteric,
- close,
- close in,
- close up,
- close with,
- close-haul,
- clutch,
- collar,
- come together,
- complication,
- compress,
- compression,
- compulsion,
- concenter,
- concentralize,
- concentrate,
- confine,
- constraint,
- contingency,
- converge,
- convergence of events,
- convulse,
- cop,
- counterfeit,
- cramp,
- cramps,
- crib,
- crick,
- crisis,
- critical juncture,
- critical point,
- crossroads,
- crucial period,
- crucify,
- crunch,
- crush,
- crux,
- cubby,
- cubbyhole,
- cut,
- dab,
- danger,
- dangerous ground,
- darting pain,
- defraud,
- deprivation,
- destitution,
- difficulty,
- dilemma,
- distress,
- doghouse,
- dole,
- dot,
- dram,
- dribble,
- driblet,
- drive,
- dummy,
- dwarf,
- economize,
- embarrassing position,
- embarrassment,
- embezzle,
- emergency,
- empty purse,
- endangerment,
- ensphere,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exact,
- excruciate,
- exigency,
- extort,
- extremity,
- fake,
- fall in with,
- famish,
- farthing,
- fester,
- filch,
- fine how-do-you-do,
- fleck,
- flyspeck,
- fragment,
- fret,
- fulgurant pain,
- funnel,
- gall,
- gaping chasm,
- gathering clouds,
- girdle pain,
- give pain,
- gnaw,
- gnawing,
- gobbet,
- gouge,
- grab,
- grain,
- granule,
- grasp,
- grate,
- grind,
- grinding poverty,
- grip,
- gripe,
- griping,
- groat,
- grudge,
- hair,
- hand-to-mouth existence,
- handful,
- harrow,
- hazard,
- heist,
- hell to pay,
- high pressure,
- hinge,
- hitch,
- hobble,
- hole,
- homelessness,
- hook,
- hot water,
- house of cards,
- how-do-you-do,
- hurt,
- imbroglio,
- imitation,
- imperativeness,
- imperilment,
- impoverishment,
- impulse,
- impulsion,
- indigence,
- inflame,
- inflict pain,
- intersect,
- iota,
- irritate,
- jam,
- jeopardy,
- job,
- joker,
- jot,
- jumping pain,
- kill by inches,
- kink,
- knock off,
- lacerate,
- lack,
- lancinating pain,
- lift,
- little,
- little bit,
- live upon nothing,
- luff,
- luff up,
- make a pinch,
- make off with,
- makeshift,
- martyr,
- martyrize,
- meet,
- menace,
- mendicancy,
- mess,
- minim,
- minimum,
- minutiae,
- mite,
- mix,
- mock,
- modicum,
- molecule,
- moneylessness,
- morass,
- mote,
- nab,
- narrow the gap,
- necessitousness,
- necessity,
- need,
- neediness,
- netting,
- nick,
- nip,
- nutshell,
- ounce,
- pain,
- palm,
- pang,
- parlous straits,
- paroxysm,
- particle,
- pass,
- pauperism,
- pauperization,
- pebble,
- penury,
- peril,
- phony,
- pickle,
- pickup,
- pierce,
- pigeonhole,
- pilfer,
- pinch pennies,
- pittance,
- playhouse,
- plight,
- ply,
- poach,
- point,
- predicament,
- press,
- pressure,
- pretty pass,
- pretty pickle,
- pretty predicament,
- prick,
- privation,
- prolong the agony,
- provisional,
- proxy,
- pull in,
- purloin,
- push,
- put to torture,
- quagmire,
- quicksand,
- rack,
- rankle,
- rash impulse,
- rasp,
- reserve,
- rip-off,
- risk,
- rob,
- robbery,
- rocks ahead,
- rub,
- run away with,
- run in,
- run together,
- rustle,
- sail fine,
- save,
- scamp,
- scant,
- scrape,
- screw,
- scrimp,
- scrounge,
- scruple,
- secondary,
- seizure,
- shake,
- sharp pain,
- shoot,
- shooting,
- shooting pain,
- shoplift,
- skimp,
- slough,
- smidgen,
- smidgin,
- smitch,
- snag,
- snare,
- snatch,
- snitch,
- soupcon,
- spare,
- spasm,
- speck,
- spoonful,
- spot,
- squeeze,
- squeezing,
- stab,
- stabbing pain,
- starve,
- steal,
- stew,
- sticky wicket,
- sting,
- stint,
- stitch,
- stopgap,
- storm clouds,
- strait,
- straits,
- stress,
- substitute,
- swamp,
- swindle,
- swipe,
- tad,
- take,
- take into custody,
- taper,
- taste,
- temporary,
- tension,
- tentative,
- theft,
- thieve,
- thimbleful,
- thin ice,
- threat,
- thrill,
- throes,
- tight spot,
- tight squeeze,
- tighten,
- tightening,
- tightrope,
- tiny bit,
- tittle,
- tormen,
- torment,
- torture,
- touch,
- touch the wind,
- tricky spot,
- trifling amount,
- trivia,
- turn,
- turning,
- turning point,
- tweak,
- twinge,
- twist,
- twitch,
- unholy mess,
- unite,
- urge,
- urgency,
- utility,
- vicarious,
- wad up,
- walk off with,
- want,
- whit,
- wound,
- wrench,
- wring
Pinch, WV -- U.S. Census Designated Place in West Virginia
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Pinch, WV -- U.S. Census Designated Place in West Virginia
Population (2000) :
2811
Housing Units (2000) :
1194
Land area (2000) :
3.507567 sq. miles (9.084557 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.037141 sq. miles (0.096194 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
3.544708 sq. miles (9.180751 sq. km)
FIPS code :
63772
Located within :
West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location :
38.406348 N, 81.484682 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.