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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clinch
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clinch a deal (=finally agree on a deal, especially one that is good for you)
▪ The salesman was eager to clinch the deal.
clinch a win (=finally win after a difficult contest)
▪ He suffered some anxious moments before clinching a 9–6 win over Dennis Taylor last night.
clinch the match (=to win a match by scoring a goal, hitting a winning ball etc)
▪ Ronaldo clinched the match with a brilliant goal.
clinch victory (=finally win)
▪ Adams scored a last-minute goal to clinch victory.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
championship
▪ A win tonight will clinch the Pac-10 championship for Stanford, now ranked number five in the nation.
▪ All of which means that Shorts require just three points from their final match of the season to clinch the championship.
deal
▪ Women are taking command of organised crime: negotiating syndicate structures, mapping strategy, clinching deals and ordering executions.
▪ He added, however, that he was still optimistic about clinching a deal this week.
▪ Industry observers say this came as a disappointment to Mr Chalayan, who had hoped to clinch a deal with Gucci himself.
▪ Are you dealing with a salesman eager to clinch a deal, or with a kitchen designer actually employed by the company?
▪ They clinched the deal for the Norwich defender just six minutes before the deadline.
▪ The only major obstacle remaining, mutual recognition, has clinched the deal.
▪ But although Maxine Johnson of the Founders still had doubts, he clinched the deal with his easy and cheerful manner.
▪ And they also need a catch-all range of facial expressions to help clinch the deal.
division
▪ With four games still to play, the side have clinched the Third Division title and promotion to Division Two.
▪ Several years ago, a reporter friend ventured into the Astros clubhouse after the team clinched a division title.
match
▪ Davies restored Chigwellians' lead before Tapper clinched the match with the third goal.
nomination
▪ With enough delegates already in hand to clinch the nomination, the immediate importance of the primary has been vastly diminished.
▪ By most calculations, Dole had clinched the nomination a week ago, when he swept four Midwest primaries.
place
▪ White clinched a quarter-final place when he potted the last red and colours to the pink in the deciding frame.
▪ Dallas, Minnesota and New Orleans will clinch play-off places by winning this weekend.
title
▪ With four games still to play, the side have clinched the Third Division title and promotion to Division Two.
▪ Cale Yarborough clinched the title with two races left in the season.
▪ Components Bureau must win two of their last three matches to clinch the title.
▪ Villeneuve came to Suzuka with a nine-point lead over Michael Schumacher in the standings and could have clinched the title.
▪ But those involved in entente floral feel at least they would have had a fighting chance of clinching the title.
▪ Several years ago, a reporter friend ventured into the Astros clubhouse after the team clinched a division title.
▪ Barton had clinched the world title - his subsequent victory in the Billabong was almost a formality.
▪ Wharton, who clinched the title by a point, now believes he is back to his best form.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A last-minute touchdown clinched the game for the Saints.
▪ Germany scored twice in the last ten minutes to clinch the championship.
▪ Mitchell phoned from Chicago to say that he was close to clinching the deal.
▪ Our company's CEO flew to Paris to clinch the deal.
▪ We finally clinched the contract by offering them a lower price.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But those involved in entente floral feel at least they would have had a fighting chance of clinching the title.
▪ Perhaps the establishment of the Sydney Opera House clinched its victory for bragging rights.
▪ The signature at the bottom, clinched it: Jane Doe - which is a synonym for The-Woman-in-the-Street.
▪ Villeneuve came to Suzuka with a nine-point lead over Michael Schumacher in the standings and could have clinched the title.
▪ White clinched a quarter-final place when he potted the last red and colours to the pink in the deciding frame.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And that's a pretty icky and dishonest clinch.
▪ Benichou emerged from a clinch with a cut mouth.
▪ But how does it perform in the clinches?
▪ He made films that were designed basically for the drive-in movie, to be glimpsed between clinches.
▪ McGuire takes a count of six then, breaking from a clinch, he crosses with a right that finds the throat.
▪ When Othello and Desdemona lovingly embrace, Iago grabs his wife in a rough, lewdly competitive clinch.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clinch

Clinch \Clinch\, v. i. To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.

Clinch

Clinch \Clinch\ (kl[i^]nch), n.

  1. The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.

  2. A pun.
    --Pope.

  3. (Naut.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.

Clinch

Clinch \Clinch\ (kl[i^]nch; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clinched; p. pr. & vb. n. Clinching.] [OE. clenchen, prop. causative of clink to cause to clink, to strike; cf. D. klinken to tinkle, rivet. See Clink.]

  1. To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. ``Clinch the pointed spear.''
    --Dryden.

  2. To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
    --Swift.

  3. To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.

  4. To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.
    --South.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
clinch

1560s, "clasp, interlock," especially with a bent nail, variant of clench. The sense of "settle decisively" is first recorded 1716, from the notion of "clinching" the point of a nail to keep it fast. Boxing sense is from 1860. Related: Clinched; clinching.

clinch

1620s, "method of fastening," from clinch (v.). Meaning "a fastening by bent nail" is from 1650s. In pugilism, from 1875.

Wiktionary
clinch

n. 1 Any of several fastenings. 2 The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip or grasp. 3 (context obsolete English) A pun. 4 (context nautical English) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts. 5 A passionate embrace. vb. 1 To clasp; to interlock. (1560s) 2 To make certain; to finalize. (1716)

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WordNet
clinch

  1. n. (boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily

  2. a small slip noose made with seizing [syn: clench]

  3. the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet

  4. a tight or amorous embrace; "come here and give me a big hug" [syn: hug, squeeze]

clinch

  1. v. secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts; "The girder was clinched into the wall"

  2. hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches

  3. hold in a tight grasp; "clench a steering wheel" [syn: clench]

  4. embrace amorously

  5. flatten the ends (of nails and rivets); "the nails were clinched"

  6. settle conclusively; "clinch a deal"

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Gazetteer
Clinch -- U.S. County in Georgia
Population (2000): 6878
Housing Units (2000): 2837
Land area (2000): 809.287995 sq. miles (2096.046195 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 14.884630 sq. miles (38.551013 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 824.172625 sq. miles (2134.597208 sq. km)
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 30.945683 N, 82.716673 W
Headwords:
Clinch
Clinch, GA
Clinch County
Clinch County, GA
Wikipedia
Clinch

Clinch may refer to:

  • A nail or device to hold in this way
  • Clinching (metalworking)
  • The Clinch, a grappling position in boxing or wrestling, a stand-up embrace.
  • Clinch County, Georgia, USA
  • Clinch River, near Tazewell, Virginia, USA
  • Clinch & Co Brewery, an English brewery founded in 1811
  • Clinch & Co Brewery (Isle of Man)

Usage examples of "clinch".

But aside from the vast cost and the point - assuming a portal would be heading in the other direction before too long - that it would be a waste of time and effort which would bring reconnection no quicker, there was one clinching argument that would apply until either no signal arrived from Zenerre or word came of an utter breakdown in civil society: in the Mercatoria only Engineers were allowed to make and emplace wormholes.

We would stand up and whale away with both fists, and then clinch and roll around the floor, biting and gouging and slugging, and onst we rolled clean over Uncle Esau and kind of flattened him out like a pancake.

His punches landed on my arms and my gloves, he had come at me so quickly that he was able to keep me in my corner and I was forced to pull him into a clinch.

He won twenty games, including the game that clinched the pennant and a shutout in Game Three of the Series.

Perhaps if I picked up a tiny green feather that must have come from Pretty Poll, and on the table close to the case that holds the spoons, it might clinch matters.

The Clinches were passing through the nanny choke-point of autumn: several new ones would be starting over the next couple of weeks.

Also, in the clinches King rested his weight on his opponent, and was loath to let go.

But to clinch victory you must persuade the grandees of this realm, and in that I think you will fail.

Like the argumentative eloquence of the Eighth Harry, they are never effectual until the halberdiers clinch their rivets forcibly.

Ef, ez I suspect, the leader is an airy young feller from Frisco, who hez took to the road lately, Clinch hez got a personal grudge agin him from a quarrel over draw poker.

O but the dark evening in the Appian way I nearly spoke to Mrs Clinch O thinking she was.

And growing inarticulate with passion, he stood before her clinching and unclinching his great hand, and his lips trembling.

The Battler fell into a clinch, but the Cyclone broke away and, measuring his distance, picked up a haymaker from the floor and put it over.

If he still needed it, he had the clinching confirmation that the story which had sounded so preposterous was true that after all Madeline Gray was not just a silly sensation-hunter and celebrity-nuisance, but that the invention of Calvin Gray might indeed be one of those rare fuses from which could explode a fiesta of fun and games of the real original vintage that he loved.

Joe staggered, ducked, clinched, backpedalled until Hilario called time again.