Meaning of stitch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
   countable
2. point (a specific spot, location, or place)
3. A single pass of a surgical suture (to sew the edges of a wound together)
   countable
4. point (a unit of scoring)
5. point (a full stop or period)
6. An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style.
7. point (a decimal mark)
8. An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, brought on by exercise or laughing.
   countable, uncountable
9. stitch (a single pass of a needle in sewing or surgery suture)
10. A local sharp pain (anywhere); an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle.
11. A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn
12. An arrangement of stitches in knitting, or method of knitting in some particular way or style.
13. A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle.
14. A fastening, as of thread or wire, through the back of a book to connect the pages.
15. Any space passed over; distance.
    broadly
16. Any least part of a fabric or clothing.
    colloquial
17. An incorporation of an existing video into a new one, resulting in a collaborative clip that shows the two videos in a sequence.
18. A ridge of ploughed land between two furrows.
    dated
19. A contortion, or twist.
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“I cut myself badly while cooking and needed to go to hospital to get stitches.”

“cross stitch”

“herringbone stitch”

“I've got a stitch. I'm going to have to stop and rest.”

“After about fifteen minutes I got terrible stitch.”

“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, […]”

“drop a stitch”

“take up a stitch”

“[Y]ou have gone a good ſtitch, you may well be a weary; ſit down.”

“to wet every stitch of clothes”

“She didn’t have a stitch (of clothing) on.”

“"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[.]”

“I would go out tonight / But I haven't got a stitch to wear”

“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.”

“[…]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.”

“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.”

“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;”

“If you talke / Or pull your face into a ſtich againe, / As I love truth I ſhall be very angry.”

CEFR level