(v. t.) To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
(v. t.) To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.
(v. i.) To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A pun.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Turner was at a meeting last month where the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, clinched an agreement with the five biggest UK banks – Barclays, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and Standard Chartered – to accept the G20 principles.
(2) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
(3) Negative slit smears for AFB from the nodules repeatedly and the histology of one on the skin nodules clinched the diagnosis of multicentric reticulohistiocytosis.
(4) Clegg first called for Murdoch to withdraw the bid on Monday, when Cameron had also said he thought Murdoch's priority should be to sort out malpractices in his company rather than trying to clinch what could eventually be a takeover costing roughly $15bn (£9.4bn).
(5) The cash-strapped HMV retail chain clinched a deal on Friday to sell its Waterstone's bookshops to the Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut for £53m.
(6) The Nevada senator aimed his fire in particular at McConnell, who threw his support behind Trump last week when it became all but certain that the real estate mogul had clinched the nomination.
(7) Add to that a dangerous nuclear deal with Iran (as Republicans and Israel’s government see it) and the apparent impotence in the face of Islamic State and the Afghanistan volte-face looks, to political foes at least , like clinching proof of serial failure by the commander-in-chief.
(8) It has clinched an association agreement with the European Union, as currently sought by the pro-western leaders who came to power in Ukraine after the removal of Moscow-backed President Viktor Yanukovych .
(9) These were supported closely watched by Pope Francis, who personally wrote to both leaders and hosted a crucial secret summit at the Vatican this autumn, which they credited with helping clinch the deal.
(10) John McCain took on George W Bush in 2000, before clinching the nomination in 2008.
(11) As the talks quickly broke down in Luxembourg, in Brussels, Donald Tusk, the president of the European council, promptly convened an emergency leaders’ summit on Monday evening, putting the onus on both Merkel and Tsipras as the two key leaders to bend towards concessions to clinch a deal.
(12) Three tendencies exist at present in the surgical management of lumbar osteochondrosis: orthopedic treatment aimed at stabilizing the vertebral segment (the procedure of choice being anterior total disectomy with vertebral intercorporal spondilodesis), neurosurgical treatment striving to decompress the nervous structures clinched by the disc, osteal growth, scars, and a combined management achieving both of the above purposes.
(13) Samaras is also expected to stress the importance of Greece clinching a primary surplus this year, as appears likely, as this will allow the government to offer some relief to lower-income Greeks.
(14) Those talks appeared to come close to clinching a historic deal but the talks broke up in early hours of 10 November, amid some acrimony over who was responsible for the failure.
(15) However, with the growing likelihood of a contested convention where no candidate receives the 1,237 delegates to clinch the nomination, they have become vital affairs as campaigns claw for every possible delegate.
(16) The big surprise is that Ping failed to clinch the 36 votes needed for a second term.
(17) With the win, Carolina clinched both the NFC South title as well as the second seed in the conference, giving them a bye week and guaranteeing them home field advantage in their first postseason game.
(18) Aston Villa apparently brought at least 20,000 to Highbury on the day they clinched the 1980-81 title, while Manchester City had around 25,000 at St James' Park when they beat Newcastle to win the league in 1967-68.
(19) I’m not quite there yet.” In May, after Trump clinched the nomination, Ryan expressed similar ambivalence about the man who won his party’s support, saying: “I’m just not ready to do that at this point.
(20) He has also urged Mario Balotelli, who created the last-gasp, championship-clinching winner against Queens Park Rangers on Sunday, and Edin Dzeko, the scorer of the equaliser, to stay at City.
Clincher
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast.
(n.) That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument.
Example Sentences:
(1) The strange clincher by Croatia was merited because they had always been sprightlier.
(2) The clincher, though, was the mission statement, donor 150's parting shot so to speak.
(3) The line turned out to be a clincher, and it remains as good a description as any of a show that wins serial Emmy awards and is frequently described by fans as being the best drama on TV.
(4) The clincher for anyone who still has doubts about the singular seriousness of the Argentine approach to football.
(5) The clincher could be which country produces the better international football teams and, well, we know the answer to that.
(6) Despite success on the field – Orlando City are firmly on the trail of a second US Pro title in three seasons while they also beat two MLS teams in this year's US Open Cup – and growing attendance, with a league-record 10,697 for a regular-season game last Sunday (Chivas USA are averaging less than that in MLS), the effective clincher for a successful bid for top-flight entry has always been the stadium.
(7) But they pulled ahead early in the clincher by shooting 59 percent in the first half and holding the up-tempo Wizards without a fast-break point until the second half.
(8) Most of my peer group are pro-UK, with fears over the EU being the biggest point and the currency issue is a clincher.
(9) But they all disappeared when my husband, Ben, rolled out the clincher: “And when we’re not using it, we can rent it out on Airbnb !” Sold.
(10) Kevin de Bruyne had endured the longest barren run of his time at the Etihad Stadium, his previous four games yielding neither a goal nor an assist, but the he broke the deadlock and created Aleksandar Kolarov’s clincher.
(11) We may never find the clincher piece of evidence - though it may yet turn up".
(12) But the clincher was McIntyre himself, the first comic in a generation who kept the kids onside and didn't frighten the grannies.
(13) But the clincher came when Robertson asked Smith to explain what precisely Assange's new rustic home would look like.
(14) He was the 33rd best paid kicker , yet kicked the game-winning field goal against the Denver Broncos in the divisional playoff, and the game-clincher against the 49ers at the Superdome.
(15) 12.45am BST Mr Levity (@Levity63) @HunterFelt Messi is centre stage at the moment, Duncan, Parker et al will have to wait June 15, 2014 Yeah, it's not the best timing for a possible clincher I do realize.
(16) And while Hostal Persal’s simple rooms are comfortable, the clincher is its prime location at a killer price (including free Wi-Fi).
(17) He also proposes a graduate tax set at 2% for those earning between £10,000 and £25,000, adding the clincher that it would feel very much lower for students than current arrangements.
(18) Already as details of this month's cuts started to emerge, there were signs this may not be the electoral clincher Cameron so confidently expects.