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say it: NIT-ing
knitting is a noun meaning "needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine". It is pronounced /ˈnɪtɪŋ/ — NIT-ing. It carries 2 recorded senses.
needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine
creating knitted wear
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for knitting come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.