inch
see also: Inch
Pronunciation
Inch
Proper noun
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see also: Inch
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪntʃ/
inch (plural inches)
- A unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot, or exactly 2.54 centimetres.
- (meteorology) The amount of water which would cover a surface to the depth of an inch, used as a measurement of rainfall.
- The amount of an alcoholic beverage which would fill a glass or bottle to the depth of an inch.
- (figuratively) A very short distance.
- "Don't move an inch!"
- 1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iv]:
- Beldame, I think we watched you at an inch.
inch (inches, present participle inching; past and past participle inched)
- (intransitive, followed by a preposition) To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
- Fearful of falling, he inched along the window ledge.
- 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey:
- The window blind had been lowered — Zooey had done all his bathtub reading by the light from the three-bulb overhead fixture—but a fraction of morning light inched under the blind and onto the title page of the manuscript.
- To drive by inches, or small degrees.
- He gets too far into the soldier's grace / And inches out my master.
- To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
inch (plural inches)
- (Scotland) A small island
- 1805, Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel:
- The blackening wave is edged with white; / To inch and rock the sea-mews fly.
Inch
Proper noun
- A town in Wexford, Ireland.
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