STITCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stitch mean? 

• STITCH (noun)
  The noun STITCH has 2 senses:

1. a link or loop or knot made by an implement in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, or sewing

2. a sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from running

  Familiarity information: STITCH used as a noun is rare.

• STITCH (verb)
  The verb STITCH has 1 sense:

1. fasten by sewing; do needlework

  Familiarity information: STITCH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STITCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A link or loop or knot made by an implement in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, or sewing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stitch" is a kind of...):

sewing; stitchery (needlework on which you are working with needle and thread)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stitch"):

crochet stitch (any one of a number of stitches made by pulling a loop of yarn through another loop with a crochet needle)

knitting stitch (a stitch taken in knitting)

embroidery stitch; sewing stitch (a stitch made with thread and a threaded sewing needle through fabric or leather)

Derivation:

stitch (fasten by sewing; do needlework)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from running

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("stitch" is a kind of...):

hurting; pain (a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder)

• STITCH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they stitch    ... he / she / it stitches   
Past simple: stitched   
Past participle: stitched   
-ing form: stitching   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fasten by sewing; do needlework

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

run up; sew; sew together; stitch

Hypernyms (to "stitch" is one way to...):

fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)

"Stitch" entails doing...:

conjoin; join (make contact or come together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stitch"):

hem (fold over and sew together to provide with a hem)

resew (sew again)

overcast (sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next)

overcast (sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches)

backstitch (do backstitches)

gather; pucker; tuck (draw together into folds or puckers)

finedraw (sew together very finely)

fell (sew a seam by folding the edges)

baste; tack (sew together loosely, with large stitches)

hemstitch (sew with hemstitches)

retick; tick (sew)

cast on (make the first row of stitches when knitting)

cast off (make the last row of stitches when knitting)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They stitch the cape

Derivation:

stitch (a link or loop or knot made by an implement in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, or sewing)

stitcher (a garmentmaker who performs the finishing steps)

stitchery (needlework on which you are working with needle and thread)

stitching (joining or attaching by stitches)

 Context examples 

They are not very wearing, so they'll keep. and Jo stitched away, with a wise nod which set her mother's heart at rest about her for the present at least.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The ribosomes match the tRNAs to their complementary mRNA sequences, thus "reading" the mRNA sequence, and stitch the amino acids together to make proteins.

(Genes Can be Read in Different Ways, NIH, US)

Surgery that is done using small incisions (cuts) and few stitches.

(Minimally invasive surgery, NCI Dictionary)

In an open biopsy, a doctor makes an incision between the ribs, removes a sample of lung tissue, and closes the wound with stitches.

(Lung biopsy, NCI Dictionary)

He looked at the workmanship; there was not one false stitch in the whole job; all was so neat and true, that it was quite a masterpiece.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Typical sutures like staples and stitches often lead to scarring and create holes in the skin that could increase the chance of infection after surgery.

(New studies may bring slug-made glues closer to use in medicine, Wikinews)

A surgical procedure performed to prevent a miscarriage by stitching the opening of the cervix closed.

(Cervical Cerclage, NCI Thesaurus)

Three hours she gave to stitching, with gold thread, the border of a square crimson cloth, almost large enough for a carpet.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The cyst is opened, its contents removed, and the edges then stitched to the skin incision.

(Epithelial Marsupialization, NCI Thesaurus)

She nodded, sighed, and went on stitching.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)