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What (who) is stitch - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Stitching; Stitch (disambiguation); Stitches (band); Stitches band; Stitches; Stitches (movie); Stitch (Character); Stitches (film); Stitched; Stitched (disambiguation); Stitch (character); Stitches (song)
stitch
(stitches, stitching, stitched)
1.
If you stitch cloth, you use a needle and thread to join two pieces together or to make a decoration.
Fold the fabric and stitch the two layers together...
We stitched incessantly.
...those patient ladies who stitched the magnificent medieval tapestries.
= sew
VERB: V n adv/prep, V, V n
2.
Stitches are the short pieces of thread that have been sewn in a piece of cloth.
...a row of straight stitches...
N-COUNT
3.
In knitting and crochet, a stitch is a loop made by one turn of wool around a knitting needle or crochet hook.
Her mother counted the stitches on her knitting needles...
N-COUNT
4.
If you sew or knit something in a particular stitch, you sew or knit in a way that produces a particular pattern.
The design can be worked in cross stitch.
N-UNCOUNT: usu n N
5.
When doctors stitch a wound, they use a special needle and thread to sew the skin together.
Jill washed and stitched the wound.
VERB: V n
•
Dr Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds...
They've taken him off to hospital to stitch him up.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P
6.
A stitch is a piece of thread that has been used to sew the skin of a wound together.
He had six stitches in a head wound.
N-COUNT
7.
A stitch is a sharp pain in your side, usually caused by running or laughing a lot.
N-SING
8.
If you are in stitches, you cannot stop laughing. (INFORMAL)
Here's a book that will have you in stitches.
PHRASE: PHR after v, v-link PHR
stitch
v. a.
1.
Sew, sew together.
2.
Make stitches in.
Stitch
·vi A contortion, or twist.
II. Stitch ·vt To form land into ridges.
III. Stitch ·vi A Furrow.
IV. Stitch ·vi To practice stitching, or needlework.
V. Stitch ·vi Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes.
VI. Stitch ·vi A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
VII. Stitch ·vi A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side.
VIII. Stitch ·vt To sew, or unite together by stitches; as, to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.
IX. Stitch ·vi A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.
X. Stitch ·vi A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch.
XI. Stitch ·add. ·noun An arrangement of stitches, or method of stitching in some particular way or style; as, cross-stitch; herringbone stitch, ·etc.
XII. Stitch ·vt To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches; as, to stitch a shirt bosom.
Examples of use of stitch
1. Stitch by stitch, the fabric of family life was unpicked.
2. Brick stitch is similar, but the pattern looks like bricks.
3. Threadymade.co.uk The website of Threadymade founder, Sonja Todd, this includes cross stitch charts for the cover of Never Mind the Bollocks and news of forthcoming and offbeat cross stitch events.
4. Mr Brown must be privately cursing the way Tony Blair saddled him with this stitch–up.
5. "I did a cross–stitch protest outside Downing Street for the campaign for electoral reform.