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stitch¹
- /stɪt͡ʃ/ US, UK
Rhymes with -ɪtʃ
Where it comes from
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).
noun stitches · stich
- A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
- A single pass of a surgical suture (to sew the edges of a wound together) I cut myself badly while cooking and needed to go to hospital to get stitches.
- An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style. cross stitch
- An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, brought on by exercise or laughing. I've got a stitch. I'm going to have to stop and rest.
- A local sharp pain (anywhere); an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle. a stitch in the side
- A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn drop a stitch
- An arrangement of stitches in knitting, or method of knitting in some particular way or style.
- A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle.
- A fastening, as of thread or wire, through the back of a book to connect the pages.
- Any space passed over; distance. [Y]ou have gone a good ſtitch, you may well be a weary; ſit down.
- Any least part of a fabric or clothing. to wet every stitch of clothes
- An incorporation of an existing video into a new one, resulting in a collaborative clip that shows the two videos in a sequence. More than 19,000 people commented, along with more stitches than she could count, Sallee said.
- A ridge of ploughed land between two furrows. 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;
- A contortion, or twist. If you talke / Or pull your face into a ſtich againe, / As I love truth I ſhall be very angry.
stitch²
- /stɪt͡ʃ/ US, UK
Rhymes with -ɪtʃ
Where it comes from
From Middle English sticchen, stichen, from Old English *stiċċan, stiċċian, from Proto-Germanic *stikjaną (“to stab, stick, prick”), influenced by the noun (see above).
verb stitches · stitching · stitched · stich
- To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches. to stitch a shirt bosom.
- To sew, or unite or attach by stitches. to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.
- To practice/practise stitching or needlework.
- To form land into ridges.
- To weld together through a series of connecting or overlapping spot welds. You can prevent warping and get a very strong weld by stitching your pieces together.
- To include, combine, or unite into a single whole. 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.
- To combine two or more photographs of the same scene into a single image. I can use this software to stitch together a panorama.
- To incorporate (an existing video) into a new one, resulting in a collaborative clip that shows the two videos in a sequence. 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
