What's the difference between cinch and tighten?

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.

Tighten


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a clear water reservoir built in ready construction after a working-period of five months quite a lot of slime could be found on the expansion joint filled with tightening compound on the base of Thiokol.
  • (2) Under pressure from many backbenchers, he has tightened planning controls on windfarms and pledged to "roll back" green subsidies on bills, leading to fears of dwindling support for the renewables industry.
  • (3) Since then, Republican activists and enthusiasts have been energised and polls have tightened.
  • (4) With the City's regulatory framework being tightened by the coalition government, which is disbanding the FSA and handing control of bank oversight to the Bank of England , there is concern in London that the US politicians are being opportunistic.
  • (5) We need to stop making excuses for them: But it is up to the state to close the loopholes Yes, the state must work continually to tighten and simplify the tax regime, which is a deliberate mess keeping an entire industry of accounting firms and tax lawyers fed.
  • (6) A simplified procedure is described whereby tissue is removed via a posterior eyelid approach so that the eyelid may be tightened both horizontally and vertically, thus inverting the punctum and fixating it in the lacrimal lake.
  • (7) Increased slippage torques of approximately 100 per cent were noted in all interfaces at low values of tightening torque (6 and 8 N m) of the wing-nut clamp and improvements of not less than 50 per cent were obtained at higher tightening torques (10 and 12 N m) on the wing-nut clamp.
  • (8) After the 2009 shooting, the US military tightened security at bases nationwide.
  • (9) Several procedures have been developed to restore closure of the paralyzed upper eyelid (implantation of gold weights or open wire springs) or to correct lower lid lagophthalmos and ectropion (lower lid tightening with a Bick procedure or insertion of a closed eyelid spring).
  • (10) Otherwise, the United States will continue to work with allies and partners to tighten national and international sanctions to impede North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes."
  • (11) Tightening compounds which were used in the sphere of drinking-water led to a microbial settlement that differs in points of quantity and quality depending on the kind of material.
  • (12) As border security has been tightened in recent years, and the flow of migrant workers has declined, routes across the border have been controlled by violent drug cartels.
  • (13) Emanuel has received backing from establishment Democrats and business leaders who have praised his financial acumen, including attracting new businesses and budget tightening to attempt to close a roughly $300m operating deficit.
  • (14) Installation of an irrigation infusion in the postoperative period and well-tightened connections help avoid such complications as thrombus formation, bleeding or air embolism.
  • (15) | Hugh Muir Read more Wherever Labour people gather to discuss how to break out of the vice tightening around the party, answers fail amid sighs of utter despair.
  • (16) Labour sources said they also wanted to make sure that the legislation was tightened up so jobseekers' regular rights of appeal, separate to the court of appeal judgment, were not also trampled on by the new law.
  • (17) All of this has been accompanied by ideological tightening across academia, religion, even state media and officialdom itself: a sort of sterilisation of the environment.
  • (18) Plans to tighten regulation of Britain's main banks will also include "living wills", which the FSA said was moving ahead quickly.
  • (19) Tightening of clasps already in contact with a tooth frequently produces adverse changes.
  • (20) They are already under pressure from their regulator, the Financial Services Authority, to tighten their lending criteria.