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[Verb] | "stitch"

1: to fasten, join, or close with or as if with stitches

2: to make, mend, or decorate with or as if with stitches

3: to unite by means of staples

Origin: 13th century ;

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[Noun] | "stitch" | \ ˈstich \

1: a local sharp and sudden pain especially in the side

2: one in-and-out movement of a threaded needle in sewing, embroidering, or suturing

3: a portion of thread left in the material or suture left in the tissue after one stitch

Origin: before 12th century ;

Middle English stiche, from Old English stice; akin to Old English stician to stick;

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[Noun] | "blanket stitch"

1: a buttonhole stitch with spaces of variable width used on materials too thick to hem

Origin: 1873 ;

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[Noun] | "buttonhole stitch"

1: a closely worked loop stitch used to make a firm edge (as on a buttonhole)

Origin: 1829 ;

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[Noun] | "chain stitch"

1: an ornamental stitch like chain links

2: a machine stitch forming a chain on the underside of the work

Origin: 1598 ;

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[Noun] | "cross-stitch" | \ ˈkrȯ(s)-ˌstich \

1: a needlework stitch that forms an X

2: work having cross-stitch

Origin: 1640 ;

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[Noun] | "flame stitch"

1: a needlepoint stitch that produces a pattern resembling flames

Origin: 1936 ;

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[Noun] | "knit stitch"

1: a basic knitting stitch usually made with the yarn at the back of the work by inserting the right needle into the front part of a loop on the left needle from the left side, catching the yarn with the point of the right needle, and bringing it through the first loop to form a new loop

Origin: circa 1885 ;

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[Noun] | "purl stitch"

1: a knitting stitch usually made with the yarn at the front of the work by inserting the right needle into the front of a loop on the left needle from the right, catching the yarn with the right needle, and bringing it through to form a new loop

Origin: 1852 ;

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[Noun] | "running stitch"

1: a small even stitch run in and out in cloth

Origin: 1802 ;

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[Noun] | "stitches"

1: a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body;

* e.g., " ... had to drop out of the race when the stitch in his side became too painful "

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[Noun] | "stitch"

1: a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body;

* e.g., " ... had to drop out of the race when the stitch in his side became too painful "

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[Verb] | "stitches"

1: to close up with a series of interlacing stitches;

* e.g., " ... the doctor stitched the wound so adroitly that the scar was barely visible after the stitches were removed "

Synonyms :
darns,
sews,
sutures

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[Verb] | "stitch"

1: to close up with a series of interlacing stitches;

* e.g., " ... the doctor stitched the wound so adroitly that the scar was barely visible after the stitches were removed "

Synonyms :
darn,
sew,
suture

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[Verb] | "cross-stitches"

1: as in embroiders;

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