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- Dictionaryclinch/klin(t)SH/
verb
- 1. confirm or settle (a contract or bargain): "to clinch a business deal" Similar
- 2. grapple at close quarters, especially (of boxers) so as to be too closely engaged for full-arm blows. Similar
noun
- 1. a struggle or scuffle at close quarters, especially (in boxing) one in which the fighters become too closely engaged for full-arm blows: "breaking from a clinch, he crossed with his right"
- 2. a knot used to fasten a rope to a ring or cringle, using a half hitch with the end seized back on its own part.
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The meaning of CLINCH is clench. How to use clinch in a sentence. clench; to turn over or flatten the protruding pointed end of (a driven nail); also : to treat (a screw, a bolt, a rivet, etc.) in a similar way…
CLINCH definition: 1. to finally get or win something: 2. to make someone decide what to do after a lot of thought or…. Learn more.
Clinch definition: to settle (a matter) decisively. See examples of CLINCH used in a sentence.
CLINCH meaning: 1. to finally get or win something: 2. to make someone decide what to do after a lot of thought or…. Learn more.
When you clinch something, you confirm it, the way you clinch a deal with your brother to trade chores next week by shaking hands on it. The verb clinch arose as a variation of clench, and its original meaning was "fix securely (a driven nail) by bending and beating it back."
1. (transitive) to secure (a driven nail) by bending the protruding point over. 2. (transitive) to hold together in such a manner. to clinch the corners of the frame. 3. (transitive) to settle (something, such as an argument or bargain) in a definite way. 4. (transitive) nautical. to fasten by means of a clinch.
n. 1. Something, such as a clamp, that clinches. 2. The clinched part of a nail, bolt, or rivet. 3. Sports An act or instance of clinching in boxing. 4. A clinch knot.
to provide the answer to something; to settle something that was not certain. clinch something These findings clinched the matter. clinch it ‘I'll pay your airfare.’ ‘OK, that clinches it—I'll come with you.’. a clinching argument. Word Origin. See clinch in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: clinch.
to finally get or win something: to clinch a deal. clinch it informal. to make someone finally decide what to do: When he said the job was in Paris, that clinched it for me. (Definition of clinch from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
1. If you clinch something you are trying to achieve, such as a business deal or victory in a contest, you succeed in obtaining it. [...] 2. The thing that clinches an uncertain matter settles it or provides a definite answer. [...] More. Conjugations of 'clinch' present simple: I clinch, you clinch [...] past simple: I clinched, you clinched [...]
