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inch
inch is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 10 senses
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- 1noun
An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
A small distance or degree, whether of time or space; hence, a critical moment.
- 4transitive verb
To drive by inches, or small degrees.
- 5transitive verb
To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
- 6intransitive verb
To advance or retire by inches or small degrees; to move slowly.
- 7adjective
Measurement an inch in any dimension, whether length, breadth, or thickness; -- used in composition; as, a two-inch cable; a four-inch plank.
- 8noun
a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot
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- 9noun
a unit of measurement for advertising space
- 10verb
advance slowly, as if by inches
"He edged towards the car"
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