stitch

STICH/stɪt͡ʃ/

22 meanings of stitch

1
nouncountable
One push of a needle through cloth when you sew, or the loop of thread it leaves.
One stitch came loose, and now the pocket is falling off.
Grandma sewed the button on with a few tiny stitches.
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sew togetherverbtransitive
To sew, or to join or fasten things together with stitches.
Can you stitch this patch onto my jeans?
He stitched the two pieces of leather together by hand.
Similarsew
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side painnouncountable or uncountable
A very sharp pain just under your ribs, caused by exercise or laughing.
Halfway through the race, I got a stitch and had to walk.
The movie was so funny that I laughed until I got a stitch.
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sewing stylenouncountable
A certain way of sewing, or the pattern of stitches it makes.
My aunt showed me an easy stitch for fixing a hem.
The quilt has four different stitches along its border.
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knitting loopnouncountable
In knitting, one loop of yarn around the needle.
Oops, I dropped a stitch, and now there's a hole in my scarf.
Begin by putting forty stitches on your knitting needle.
Similarloop
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verbtransitive
To bring separate parts together into one whole, or to make something part of one.
A new park will stitch the old and new parts of town together.
The coach stitched a strong team together from players nobody else wanted.
Similarcombine, cobble, piece, merge, unite
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sew in linesverbtransitive
To make stitches in something, especially so that a long, unbroken line of stitches shows on top.
She stitched the edge of the pocket with bright red thread so the line stood out.
This machine can stitch thick denim in a neat, straight line.
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knitting stylenouncountable
A certain way of knitting, or the pattern it makes in the yarn.
The scarf is knit in an easy stitch that looks the same on both sides.
She learned two new knitting stitches at her class.
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any scrapnouncolloquialcountable
Even the smallest bit of cloth or clothing.
After the storm, every stitch I had on was soaking wet.
He jumped into the lake without a stitch on.
Similarpiece, scrap, thing
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reuse a videoverbtransitive
On TikTok, to add a video that is already posted to your new one, so both play in order.
I'm going to stitch her TikTok and show my own way to make the recipe.
He stitched the TikTok about bad haircuts and added his own funny story.
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video replynouncountable
On TikTok, the act of adding a video that is already posted to a new one, so both play in order.
Her funny cooking video got hundreds of stitches from other users.
On TikTok, the best stitch of his video came from a chef who showed the right way to cook it.
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do needleworkverbintransitive
To sew or do other needlework with a needle and thread.
My grandmother likes to stitch while she watches TV.
We sat by the window and stitched quietly all afternoon.
Similarsew
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sharp painnouncountable
A sharp pain felt in one spot, in any part of the body, like a needle going in.
She felt a stitch in her knee as she stood up.
He felt sharp stitches in his lower back after lifting the heavy box.
Similartwinge, pang, pain
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join photosverbtransitive
To join two or more photos of the same scene into one picture.
Like taping photos side by side so they make one big picture.
She stitched six photos of the mountains into one long picture.
My phone can stitch the pictures together as I turn in a slow circle.
Similarmerge, combine
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binding threadnouncountable
Something, such as thread or wire, that goes through the back of a book to hold its pages together.
One stitch in the back of the old book had come loose, so a few pages fell out.
The repair shop put new stitches through the back of my grandfather's Bible.
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fabric caughtnouncountable
The small amount of material a needle picks up or covers each time it goes in and out.
Each stitch on Grandma's quilt is no longer than a grain of rice.
Those long stitches on the sleeve cover almost half an inch each.
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plow linenounobsolete
A long, narrow groove that a plow cuts in the ground.
The horse pulled the plow and left a deep stitch in the soil.
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;
1750, William Ellis, “Of Plowings preparatory for Sofing Lent Crops of Grain, &c. in Chilturn Grounds”Here, stitches and Stitch mean furrows, long narrow trenches cut by a plow.
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twistnounobsolete
A twist or bending of something out of its normal shape.
If you talke / Or pull your face into a ſtich againe, / As I love truth I ſhall be very angry.
1609, Francis Beaumont, John FletcherHere, stich means a twist, pulling your face out of shape.
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verb
To join pieces with a row of small welds, made one spot at a time, that touch or overlap.
20
noun
A distance, or any stretch of space that someone or something goes over.
21
noun
The strip of ground between two double furrows, the deep lines a plow makes.
22
verb
To shape land into ridges, which are long raised rows of soil.

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Origins

Meanings 1, 3–5, 8–9, 11, 13, 15–18

It comes from an Old English word meaning a prick or stab. That word goes back to a very old root meaning 'to stab or pierce,' and it is related to the word 'stick.'

Meanings 2, 6–7, 10, 12, 14

It comes from an Old English word meaning 'to stab or prick.' The noun 'stitch' also shaped it.