inching
寸步难行,寸步不离,寸进,寸步不让
Related Words
Definitions
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- : a unit of length, 1/12 foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters. Abbreviation: in.
- : a very small amount of anything; narrow margin: to win by an inch; to avert disaster by an inch.
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- : to move by inches or small degrees: We inched our way along the road.
Phrases
- inch along
- inch by inch
- by inches
- every inch
- give an inch
- within an ace (inch) of
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Place the buns onto parchment paper on a baking tray, leaving about a fourth inch between each one.
The company does fill cracks wider than a ¼ inch with liquid crack filler, but for narrower cracks, it just coats the surface with sealer, which seals out water but doesn’t make them disappear.
In a recent example, a team of scientists led by Samsung’s Won-Jae Joo and Stanford’s Mark Brongersma published a paper in Science describing a new meta-OLED display that can pack in 10,000 pixels per inch with room to scale.
From here, slide your right hand forward around 12 inches, then your left hand.
Oftentimes when these experiences happen in our lives, we are analyzing every single inch of a problem and we don’t have a long-term perspective, because we lose that in the emotional state of chaos.
But it is also incredibly moving and instructive to watch the inching towards social justice.
Another clue that the royal relationship might be inching forwards.
Surprisingly, the official tells us, Utah is inching toward accepting the money, as is Tennessee.
Only with this kind of mutual respect, mutual recognition, and mutual flexibility, will we start inching toward peace.
Knowing this, Bing has been gently, though strategically, inching its way into the inner circle.
In spite of all he could do he saw the madman inching the knife nearer and nearer his throat.
And this craft bore past there often, its downward way with swifters of logs, driving fast up-lake without a tow.