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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot, or exactly 2.54 centimetres.
- (Scotland) A small island
- (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.
Verbit
- (intransitive, followed by a preposition) To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
- To drive by inches, or small degrees.
- To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
Esimerkit
- "Don't move an inch!"
- Beldame, I think we watched you at an inch.
- Fearful of falling, he inched along the window ledge.
- 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.
- Already guarding a 1-0 lead from the first leg, Blackpool inched further ahead when Stephen Dobbie scored from an acute angle on the stroke of half-time. The game appeared to be completely beyond Birmingham’s reach three minutes into the second period when Matt Phillips reacted quickly to bundle the ball past Colin Doyle and off a post.
- He gets too far into the soldier's grace / And inches out my master.
- The blackening wave is edged with white; / To inch and rock the sea-mews fly.
- 1 inch = 2,54 centimètres.
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