stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stĭch
ipa: /stɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: stitches
form: stitching
form: stitched
form: stitched
form: stich
Etymology: From Middle English sticchen, stichen, from Old English *stiċċan, stiċċian, from Proto-Germanic *stikjaną (“to stab, stick, prick”), influenced by the noun (see above).
Senses: examples: text: to stitch a shirt bosom.
glosses: To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches.
examples: text: to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.
text: With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.
ref: 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph:
glosses: To sew, or unite or attach by stitches.
glosses: To practice/practise stitching or needlework.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To form land into ridges.
examples: text: You can prevent warping and get a very strong weld by stitching your pieces together.
ref: 2009, Jeffery Zurschmeide, Automotive Welding: A Practical Guide, →ISBN, page 44:
text: For example, the butt joint can be welded with the continuous technique or the stitch technique.
ref: 2014, James E. Duffy, Auto Body Repair Technology, →ISBN, page 239:
text: Apply cement and stitch as necessary. A hot knife can be used to seal down loose seams.
ref: 2017, Chellappa Chandrasekaran, Anticorrosive Rubber Lining: A Practical Guide for Plastics Engineers, →ISBN:
glosses: To weld together through a series of connecting or overlapping spot welds.
examples: text: Whereas liturgically, in the sacramental narrative of the Cross, worshippers are stitched into a salvation story, cinema spectators are stitched into a narrative in which the ordinary guy overcomes the Other in an extraordinary situation.
ref: 2011, Steve Nolan, Film, Lacan and the Subject of Religion, →ISBN:
text: However, it is the depth and breadth of your scholarship, your incisive and decisive writing, your numerous books exemplifying this masterful craftsmanship (I stopped counting after nineteen), your wit, and your relentless resolve to listen and get it right that are now stitched into my memories.
ref: 2013, Peyton McCoy, Walk into Your Season: The Art of Cultural Work, →ISBN, page viii:
text: Effective landscape-scale conservation thus calls for stitching the management of public, tribal, and private lands together using collaborative processes to achieve mutual social and ecological objectives.
ref: 2014, Susan Charnley, Thomas E. Sheridan, Gary P. Nabhan, Stitching the West Back Together: Conservation of Working Landscapes, →ISBN, page xvi:
text: The scheme promises to stitch parts of the city back into the commuter rail map, to reshape short urban journeys, and to relieve some of the pressure on the city's roads and bus routes.
ref: 2025 October 1, Peter Plisner, “Closing in on Camp Hill reopening”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 44:
glosses: To include, combine, or unite into a single whole.
examples: text: I can use this software to stitch together a panorama.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To include, combine, or unite into a single whole.
To combine two or more photographs of the same scene into a single image.
examples: text: One site, PearPop.com, hooks TikTok or Instagram influencers up with fans to create duetted or stitched videos that fans pay for. This can be an effective way to build followers fast.⁹ Model Leah Svoboda added 120,000 followers after a PearPop duet with megainfluencer Anna Shumate.¹⁰
ref: 2022, Brian Boxer Wachler, Influenced: The Impact of Social Media on Our Perception, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, pages 186–187:
text: She talks briefly about their park picnic and then inserts a cliffhanger: “I’m going to stitch this when we’re either in a relationship or he absolutely obliterates my self-esteem.” (Stitch is a creation tool that allows users to add new content to an existing video.)
ref: 2023 March 1, Rachel Ellison, “Bad Dates Turn Out to Be Excellent on TikTok”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To include, combine, or unite into a single whole.
To incorporate (an existing video) into a new one, resulting in a collaborative clip that shows the two videos in a sequence.
Synonyms: sense: form stitches in
word: sew
sense: unite by stitches
word: sew
sense: unite by stitches
word: stitch together
sense: form land into ridges
word: plough
sense: form land into ridges
word: plow
Derived terms: restitch
stitchable
stitch aloft
stitch and bitch
stitcher
stitch up
unstitch