Phrase Hound found 11 phrases and 1 compound words that contain pinches. The most common are listed below. Open pinches in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 11
- pinches outthird-person singular simple present indicative of pinch out: To remove the shoots of a plant:
- where the shoe pinchesWhere the cause of trouble or difficulty is found or located.
- Bennett pinchesplural of Bennett pinch: A kind of plasma confinement system that uses an electrical current in the plasma to generate a magnetic field that compresses it.
- penny-pinchesthird-person singular simple present indicative of penny-pinch: To be very parsimonious or stingy.
- pinches offthird-person singular simple present indicative of pinch off: To separate (something) from something else, using a pinching motion.
- theta pinchesplural of theta pinch: A pinch (magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament) where the magnetic field runs down the axis of the cylinder, while the electric field is in the azimuthal direction.
- Z-pinchesplural of Z-pinch: A kind of plasma confinement system that uses an electrical current in the plasma to generate a magnetic field that compresses it.
- zeta pinchesplural of zeta pinch: A kind of plasma confinement system that uses an electrical current in the plasma to generate a magnetic field that compresses it.
- velar pinchesplural of velar pinch: The "pinch" that occurs between the second and third formants of vowels immediately before and after velar stops.
- pinches a loafthird-person singular simple present indicative of pinch a loaf: To defecate.
- pinches of saltplural of pinch of salt: A small amount of salt.
Compound words 1
- nanopinchesplural of nanopinch: A nanoscale pinch (or Z-pinch)