What's the difference between cinch and inch?

Cinch


Definition:

  • (n.) A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.
  • (n.) A tight grip.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She's a Barbie but without the bullet boobs and cinched waist.
  • (2) There was little cinching of the waist, and almost no flashing of leg; sex appeal came through the element of surprise, as the designer put it backstage, with unexpected slivers of skin shown at the back of a dress.
  • (3) Among addition silicones, Cinch produced more than twice as much vertical change (-0.16%) than the other three products (-0.06%).
  • (4) Atlanta's Freddie Freeman is currently in place to reach the All-Star Game in Queens on Tuesday, beating out the Dodgers' Yasiel Puig, who many thought would be a cinch to win.
  • (5) The deal was cinched following Kerry's meeting today with Lavrov.
  • (6) Review of 17 cases in which the cinch was used as part of the surgical treatment showed the technique to be adjustable by reducing the overcorrection in 6 cases.
  • (7) And now Kris Jenkins will the Jim Valvano or Rollie Massimino of his time – the face of elation as the great victory is cinched, played on endless repeat for Final Fours to come.
  • (8) For the big night, Lybke turned out in pink pinstripes with red braces and cinching buckles.
  • (9) The type of soft tissue manipulation employed, in particular the use of the alar base cinch suture and V-Y closure techniques, were important factors in determining the response of the upper lip to the surgery.
  • (10) For increased understanding of its shortening and adjustment characteristics, a standard cinch was performed in animals and patients with strabismus.
  • (11) I pull on a T-shirt, sweatshirt and oversized jacket, and cinch the trousers – four sizes too big and stained – using a belt from one of the bags.
  • (12) In some far distant future, where interstellar travel is a cinch, he intervenes, often violently, to prevent even worse violence.
  • (13) His debut collection was quickly christened the “new look” , with a calf-length full skirt, cinched waist and fuller bust.
  • (14) The abdominal muscles not only constitute a multidirectional cinch that holds the abdominal contents in place, but they also determine the flexion and rotational movements of the trunk.
  • (15) Trump cinched his right to appear in the debates by hitting a campaign finance filing deadline on Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission.
  • (16) Ten to 20 prism dioptres of reduction in the deviation was obtained with adjustment of the cinch on the first postoperative day.
  • (17) Carpentier-Edwards annuloplasty rings (20-24 mm) were inserted using a special buttressing suture technique that permitted alternate cinching of the ring down onto the annulus and subsequent removal away from the annulus.
  • (18) The modified O'Connor cinch operation is a useful, but little used, adjustable resection operation.
  • (19) Animal studies showed that, as each strand of the cinch was removed, a small, relatively equal release of the cinch effect occurred.
  • (20) Many spent entire days in bed, eyes cinched against the blinding pain caused by their illness.

Inch


Definition:

  • (n.) An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc.
  • (n.) A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic.
  • (n.) A small distance or degree, whether of time or space; hence, a critical moment.
  • (v. t.) To drive by inches, or small degrees.
  • (v. t.) To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
  • (v. i.) To advance or retire by inches or small degrees; to move slowly.
  • (a.) Measurement an inch in any dimension, whether length, breadth, or thickness; -- used in composition; as, a two-inch cable; a four-inch plank.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Terminal forces directed posteriorly and to the right and with a delay no longer than 0,03 inches do not warrant the diagnosis of left anterior hemiblock with a right bundle branch block associated.
  • (2) But I'm starting with the job that I can do something about right now – scrabbling around on the floor, picking up three-inch nails and cigarette butts so that the new four-year-olds will have somewhere safe to play at break.
  • (3) Compare her with Megan Draper, who is in a minidress too, but one that is several inches shorter and boasts the swirling lava-lamp prints that may have been seen in Vogue at the time.
  • (4) Del Bosque had listened to the criticism, all that stuff about it being a negative tactic, and decided not to budge an inch, and who can blame him?
  • (5) Below-zero temperatures crowned the top of the US from Idaho to Minnesota, where many roads still had an inch-thick plate of ice, polished smooth by traffic and impervious to ice-melting chemicals.
  • (6) His opposite number, Roy Carroll, saved at the feet of Sinclair, the County striker Izale McLeod drove inches wide, but in the 24th minute Villa were level, Jack Grealish dancing through a series of attempted tackles before putting the ball on a plate inside the penalty area for the hugely promising Adama Traoré to thump past Carroll.
  • (7) Two sets of a twin-focus X-ray tube and a 12-inch image intensifier (II) were mounted on the gantry in the isocentric and cross-firing positions.
  • (8) Rainfall over 3+ inches will follow this wind line.
  • (9) We were advised not to, partly because we didn't want to encourage more column inches, but also because it made us sound so much more exciting and interesting than we were.
  • (10) Seeb slams a copy of their licence application on the table – it's well over an inch thick.
  • (11) Listen to Stoopid Symbol Of Woman Hate or Can't Stand Up For 40-Inch Busts (both songs were inspired by a hatred of sexist advertising) and you can hear Amon Duul and Hawkwind scaring the living shit out of Devo and Clock DVA.
  • (12) A complete 0.018-inch slot straight-wire appliance was used to align the teeth, close lower spaces, and detail the occlusion.
  • (13) The stiffness tester and torque meter were found to yield nearly the same measurements of bending deformation for orthodontic wires as small as .007 inch diameter, provided the different bending apparatus are calibrated to each other.
  • (14) Westwood came within an inch of clawing back a shot with a firm, brave putt, but went to the 16th having to birdie his way to the clubhouse to pull off a minor miracle.
  • (15) So should we indulge our nut cravings or will that just add inches to the waist?
  • (16) The artist covered every inch of the steps in front of his house in tiles, ceramics and mirrors – originally in the green, yellow, blue and white of the Brazilian flag, later adding tiles in other colours brought by visitors.
  • (17) A Staphylococcus strain was inoculated on the top and cut surfaces of freshly baked Southern custard pies which were then packaged in a pasteboard carton and held at 30 C. Daily plate counts of surface sections 0.3 inch (0.76 cm) in thickness were made.
  • (18) Nigeria is “inching closer” to securing the release of 219 schoolgirls kidnapped six months ago, despite fears that reports of a ceasefire with the Islamist militant group Boko Haram have not come to fruition.
  • (19) In fact, Wilson is 6ft 4ins tall, about an inch taller than Brown.
  • (20) Immediately after the final, Pistorius said Oliveira and Blake Leeper, the American bronze medallist, were racing on blades that were "unfair" because they added four inches to their height.