stitch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
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engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English stiche, from Old English stiċe (“a prick, puncture, stab, thrust with a pointed implement, pricking sensation, stitch, pain in the side, sting”), from Proto-West Germanic *stiki, from Proto-Germanic *stikiz (“prick, piercing, stitch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to stab, pierce”).
Cognate with Dutch steek (“prick, stitch”), German Stich (“a prick, piercing, stitch”), Old English stician (“to stick, stab, pierce, prick”). More at stick. Via PIE cognate with Czech steh, Polish ścieg, Russian стежо́к (stežók).
Inflected forms:
form: stitches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stich
pos: noun
tags: alternative
misspelling
obsolete
form: stitches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stitching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stitched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stitched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: stich
pos: verb
tags: alternative
misspelling
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I cut myself badly while cooking and needed to go to hospital to get stitches.
gloss: An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style.
pos: noun
examples: cross stitch
herringbone stitch
gloss: An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, brought on by exercise or laughing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I've got a stitch. I'm going to have to stop and rest.
After about fifteen minutes I got terrible stitch.
gloss: A local sharp pain (anywhere); an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle.
pos: noun
examples: a stitch in the side
He was the next day taken with an oppreſſion, and as it ſeemed with a cold and with ſtitches, which was indeed a pluriſy.
Violent continuous stitch in the region of the heart, the stitches multiplied when arresting the breathing. […] Feeling of heaviness in the muscles of the neck; he is obliged to bend his neck backwards. Cramp-like pain in right muscles of the neck, terminating in a stitch; the pain went off after motion and returned afterwards. […] Dull stitches in the region of the haunch-bones; pressure on the parts causes a simple pain. […] Drawing stitch in the right thigh, not perceptible when standing or ascending an elevation.
A sharp stitch in the left side of the head, on sitting down […] A sharp stitch in the upper part of the right side of the head, […]
gloss: A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn
pos: noun
examples: drop a stitch
take up a stitch
gloss: An arrangement of stitches in knitting, or method of knitting in some particular way or style.
pos: noun
gloss: A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle.
pos: noun
gloss: A fastening, as of thread or wire, through the back of a book to connect the pages.
pos: noun
gloss: Any space passed over; distance.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: [Y]ou have gone a good ſtitch, you may well be a weary; ſit down.
gloss: Any least part of a fabric or clothing.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: to wet every stitch of clothes
She didn’t have a stitch (of clothing) on.
About DUNSTABLE they plow much in Stitches : and in Essex some very good Farmers practise this Method with very great Success; making five Stitches when they come to sow, which five make a Perch, so that between every two Stitches there is a Thorough a Foot wide.
"Why, it's you that are stripping me," replied the Ogress, "and you have not left a stitch on me." "Where the devil is the quilt?" says the Ogre[.]
[…]for your oxen choose Two males of nine years old, for then their use Is most available, since their strengths are then Not of the weakest, and the youthful mean Sticks in their nerves still; nor will these contend With skittish tricks, when they their stitch should end, To break their plough, and leave their work undone.
I would go out tonight / But I haven't got a stitch to wear
gloss: An incorporation of an existing video into a new one, resulting in a collaborative clip that shows the two videos in a sequence.
pos: noun
examples: More than 19,000 people commented, along with more stitches than she could count, Sallee said.
One answer that appeared in multiple comments and stitches was that women often think about the possibility of being victims of violence.
The stitches, as they are called on TikTok, nearly always end in agreement that Ms. Vidal was right — store-bought pesto is indeed an inferior product.
gloss: A ridge of ploughed land between two furrows.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: Now plow down your Weat-stitches, by running the Two-wheel Fallow-Plough three or four times through each Stitch, which will almost level the Ground;
gloss: A contortion, or twist.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: If you talke / Or pull your face into a ſtich againe, / As I love truth I ſhall be very angry.
gloss: To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches.
pos: verb
examples: to stitch a shirt bosom.
gloss: To sew, or unite or attach by stitches.
pos: verb
examples: to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.
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.
gloss: To practice/practise stitching or needlework.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To form land into ridges.
pos: verb
gloss: To weld together through a series of connecting or overlapping spot welds.
pos: verb
examples: You can prevent warping and get a very strong weld by stitching your pieces together.
For example, the butt joint can be welded with the continuous technique or the stitch technique.
Apply cement and stitch as necessary. A hot knife can be used to seal down loose seams.
gloss: To include, combine, or unite into a single whole.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: To include, combine, or unite into a single whole.
pos: verb
examples: I can use this software to stitch together a panorama.
gloss: To include, combine, or unite into a single whole.
pos: verb
examples: 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
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.)
Derived words: a stitch in time saves nine
backstitch
bean stitch
blanket stitch
blanket-stitch
blind stitch
box stitch
bread-stitch
brede-stitch
brick stitch
butterfly stitch
buttonhole stitch
cable stitch
catchstitch
chain stitch
Comanche stitch
coral stitch
couching stitch
couch stitch
counted cross-stitch
coverstitch
cross-stitch
daddy stitch
dip stitch
draw stitch
drop a stitch
edgestitch
fancy stitch
featherstitch
fell stitch
Flemish stitch
garter stitch
hemstitch
herringbone stitch
Holbein stitch
honeycomb stitch
husband's stitch
husband stitch
in stitches
kettle stitch
Kitchener stitch
ladder stitch
lock stitch
long and short stitch
moss stitch
overstitch
pad stitch
pearl stitch
purl stitch
pick stitch
pick up stitches
raccroc stitch
rib stitch
rice stitch
rope stitch
running stitch
Russian stitch
saddle stitch
satin stitch
seed stitch
shadow stitch
side stitch
slip stitch
slipstitch
snitches get stitches
snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches
spider stitch
split stitch
stabstitch
stab stitch
staystitch
stem stitch
stitch-back
stitchcraft
stitch drilling
stitchery
stitch in the ditch
stitchless
stitchlike
stitch-up
stitchwork
stitchwort
stockinette stitch
stocking stitch
straight stitch
take up a stitch
tent stitch
thorough-stitch
through-stitch
topstitch
wheatear stitch
wheel stitch
whipstitch
whip stitch
wholestitch
interstitch
lockstitch
misstitch
stitchback
understitch
catstitch
restitch
stitchable
stitch aloft
stitch and bitch
stitcher
stitch incoming
stitch up
unstitch
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: غَرَزَة
roman: ḡaraza
lang: Arabic
word: غرْزة
roman: ḡərza
lang: Armenian
word: հատ
roman: hat
lang: Armenian
word: օղակ
roman: ōġak
lang: Azerbaijani
word: tikiş
lang: Bulgarian
word: шев
roman: šev
lang: Bulgarian
word: бод
roman: bod
lang: Catalan
word: punt
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 缝针
roman: féngzhēn
lang: Czech
word: steh
lang: Danish
word: sting
lang: Dutch
word: steek
lang: Finnish
word: pisto
lang: Finnish
word: tikki
lang: French
word: point
lang: Galician
word: puntada
lang: German
word: Stich
lang: Greek
word: βελονιά
roman: veloniá
lang: Hindi
word: सिलाई
roman: silāī
lang: Hungarian
word: öltés
lang: Ido
word: sutuno
lang: Irish
word: greim
lang: Italian
word: punto
lang: Central Kurdish
word: تەقەڵ
roman: teqell
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: dirwar
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: kêl
lang: Southern Kurdish
word: تەقەڵ
roman: teqell
lang: Macedonian
word: бод
roman: bod
lang: Manx
word: lhoob
lang: Manx
word: whaaley
lang: Māori
word: tuinga
lang: Middle English
word: stiche
lang: Persian
word: کوک
roman: kuk
lang: Polish
word: ścieg
lang: Portuguese
word: ponto
lang: Russian
word: стежо́к
roman: stežók
lang: Russian
word: пе́тля
roman: pétlja
lang: Russian
word: петля́
roman: petljá
lang: Spanish
word: puntada
lang: Spanish
word: punto
lang: Swedish
word: stygn
lang: Tamil
word: தையல்
roman: taiyal
lang: Telugu
word: కుట్టు
roman: kuṭṭu
lang: Tibetan
word: ཚེམ་བུ
roman: tshem bu
lang: Turkish
word: dikiş
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: دیكیش
roman: dikiş
lang: Ukrainian
word: стібо́к
roman: stibók
lang: Vietnamese
word: mũi khâu
lang: Volapük
word: näg
lang: Walloon
word: pont
lang: Bulgarian
word: плетка
roman: pletka
lang: Finnish
word: kudos
lang: Galician
word: punto
lang: German
word: Strickmuster
lang: Greek
word: πλέξη
roman: pléxi
lang: Macedonian
word: пле́тка
roman: plétka
lang: Manx
word: lhoob
lang: Manx
word: whaaley
lang: Polish
word: ścieg
lang: Polish
word: splot
lang: Portuguese
word: ponto
lang: Swedish
word: stickning