What's the difference between entwine and knit?

Entwine


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round.
  • (v. i.) To be twisted or twined.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Development of an aorta and pulmonary trunk with tricuspid semilunar valves appears to be contingent on the appearance of separate entwined ventricular ejection streams.
  • (2) Pioneer of the ‘cradle to cradle’ concept , McDonough argues that peace is not possible when market activity and “war-like” competition are so closely entwined.
  • (3) Whatever the truth of her prospects as a diplomat, there is certainly no doubt now about how closely the Wintour and Condé Naste brands will be entwined in the future.
  • (4) An analysis of meetings between Google executives and senior politicians, as well as the regular appointments of political figures to major positions within the company’s PR machine, shows how the California-based tech company has become deeply entwined within the British political landscape.
  • (5) Ross Taylor, a businessmen and president of the West Australian-based Indonesia Institute , says Chan and Sukumaran’s cases are entwined with politics.
  • (6) In practice, high-carbohydrate diets are usually entwined with high-fibre intake.
  • (7) Bergé got Yves out of hospital and back to work, helping to set up the label whose three sensuously entwined initials would revolutionise Parisian fashion in the 60s, scandalise the world in the 70s and stamp themselves imperiously across the 80s.
  • (8) Culture is, however, entwined in everything in a place where art and hard-nosed politics made national history in 1963 .
  • (9) When I think about the future of human-machine interactions, two entwined anxieties come to mind.
  • (10) As well as identifying a variety of fibril interactions involving direct physical entwinement which are assumed to provide matrix cohesion the study also highlights the functional importance of the repeatedly kinked morphology exhibited by the radial fibrils.
  • (11) The enactive mode comprises a combination of affective processes entwined with proprioceptive, visceral, motoric and sensory feeling.
  • (12) The two bundles of flagella were entwined around the cytoplasmic body of the cell and interdigitated in the middle region of the organism.
  • (13) With greater accessibility of patients from lower socioeconomic backgrounds to medical care, the physician in private or clinical practice is increasingly confronted with patients whose medical problems either become quickly overshadowed by or entwined with seemingly hopeless socioeconomic or legal problems.
  • (14) An ostentatious leather-bound album with Kniga Dlya Dam embossed in gold on the cover opens to reveal a Chinese silk drawing of an entwined couple.
  • (15) Longer term, it is the criminal investigations by the US Department of Justice and the Swiss attorney general’s office that will decide the fate of many of those entwined with Fifa corruption down the decades.
  • (16) It consists of sterile tongue depressors placed 2 to 3 cm apart on the circumference of the limb and entwined at various layers with wrapped Kerlix.
  • (17) I call these anxieties entwined because, for me, they come accompanied by a shared error: the overestimation of our rationality and our autonomy.
  • (18) Hamlice is an adaptation by Punzo that entwines Hamlet with Alice in Wonderland , and in which Shakespeare's characters liberate themselves in Lewis Carroll's world (one which, incidentally, is highly cogent in Italian alternative culture, and played an important role in the insurgent movement in Italy during the 1970s, whose main radio station was called Radio Alice).
  • (19) Fingerlike microvilli were attached to outer segments and entwined around both its ends.
  • (20) The move would, however, prove disastrous for Mexico, whose economy has become deeply entwined with that of the US since the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) came into effect in 1994.

Knit


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Knit
  • (v. t.) To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
  • (v. t.) To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings.
  • (v. t.) To join; to cause to grow together.
  • (v. t.) To unite closely; to connect; to engage; as, hearts knit together in love.
  • (v. t.) To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
  • (v. i.) To form a fabric by interlacing yarn or thread; to weave by making knots or loops.
  • (v. i.) To be united closely; to grow together; as, broken bones will in time knit and become sound.
  • (n.) Union knitting; texture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eighty interposition mesocaval shunts, using a knitted Dacron large diameter prosthesis, have been performed during the past five and one-half years.
  • (2) Placement of impervious knitted Dacron velour aortic grafts in baboons reproduced platelet consumption that progressively normalized over six weeks postoperatively.
  • (3) One source said Coe's "knitting together" of cross-party political support to win the London Olympic bid puts him in a good light.
  • (4) The fabric protection factors (FPF) of 5 metal meshes, to simulate the weave pattern and yarn dimensions of typical fabrics, and 6 textiles with variable construction (woven and knitted), fibre type and dye were determined using a spectrophotometric assay and human skin testing.
  • (5) In contrast to the uncoated knitted prosthesis, which rapidly developed a layered neointima with complete neoendothelialization, only islands of neointima were found in albumin-coated grafts after 4 weeks.
  • (6) I inherited Ted-Fred from my mother, a one-eyed and wholly uncuddly pre-war sack of mange (the bear, not my mum), and I had briefly loved Albert, a brown knitted dog, although I have very little memory of him.
  • (7) This paper compares the healing of supported knitted Dacron prostheses implanted in the descending thoracic aorta and in the subcutaneous carotid-femoral positions in each of 10 dogs.
  • (8) ultralightweight; nine Wesolowski Weavenit; and seven DeBakey standard weight knitted.
  • (9) To establish the conditions for achieving immediate and complete endothelial cell coverage of the luminal surfaces of small-caliber (internal diameter:4 mm) vascular grafts in vitro, the attachment and spread of endothelial cells cultured from human umbilical veins to expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and knitted Dacron grafts was studied.
  • (10) To overcome these problems, the PEUG was modified to add mechanical strength by incorporating knitted polyester fibers.
  • (11) They say it is easier than knitting a scarf, the typical starter project for novices.
  • (12) Recently the triple-layered CX or controlled expansion cylinders were introduced, which consisted of a middle layer of expandable monofilament knitted polypropylene-like material sandwiched between 2 silicone layers.
  • (13) A host of activities are on offer, from barbecue or pizza parties to bar crawls, and guests are welcome to visit the community projects that Backpack sponsors, including vegetable gardens, knitting and football for kids.
  • (14) But they are, without argument, all “pulling in the same direction”, a tight-knit group unconcerned about the judgment of others.
  • (15) In the second trial 24 grafts without velours trimming (Cooley II, Meadox), 24 grafts manufactured by a new warp-knitting procedure without velours trimming (Protegraft 2000, B. Braun AG) and 24 identical grafts of B. Braun AG but with gelatine impregnation were evaluated.
  • (16) She was inseparable from her sister and had a close-knit group of friends.
  • (17) Mourinho’s pre-match utterances are generally best skimmed for the odd word not specifically dedicated to inflammatory falsehoods, but Chelsea’s manager was correct to offer some wary respect for the Football League’s champion club and here, lining up in a tightly knit 4-4-2, Leicester were sharp in the tackle early on, and pacy on the break throughout.
  • (18) During the first five years, 22 patients had either a 13 X 6.5 mm or a 14 X 7 mm knitted Dacron graft and served as historic controls for a second group of 20 others who had 14 X 7 mm grafts of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), during the last three years of the study.
  • (19) (“Get your tissues ready: It’s time for an emotional rollercoaster.”) His mum, Figen, he wrote on his feed , had told him she was having a bad day because she had taken a stall at a craft fair and no one had bought any of her knitted creations.
  • (20) Five pathogenic, coagulase-negative Staphylococcus epidermidis strains were used to measure the differential microbial adherence to ACD versus untreated velour-knitted Dacron (VKD) vascular prostheses.