English-Dutch translations for knit

breien
Voor mij is dit alsof je een handschoen begint te breien en niet verder komt dan de duim. In my opinion, it is like starting to knit a glove and not getting any further than the thumb. Dat komt er nu van, mijnheer Prodi, als Penelope, in weerwil van wat de Odyssee haar leert, haar breiwerk uithaalt in plaats van te breien! That is what happens, Mr Prodi, when Penelope goes against the teaching of the Odyssey and unravels instead of knitting.
aaneenbreien

To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine
To join closely and firmly together
To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted
To combine from various elements
Of bones: to heal following a fracture
To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying
To draw together; to contract into wrinkles
A knitted garment
A session of knitting

to knit a stocking
The first generation knitted to order; the second still knits for its own use; the next leaves knitting to industrial manufacturers.
The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.
All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.
The witness knitted together his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.
I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit

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