stitch

noun

1. 1

   A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.

2. 2

   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.

3. 3

   An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style.

   cross stitch

   herringbone stitch

4. 4

   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.

   After about fifteen minutes I got terrible stitch.

5. 5

   A local sharp pain (anywhere); an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle.

   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.

   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, […]

6. 6

   A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn

   drop a stitch

   take up a stitch

7. 7

   An arrangement of stitches in knitting, or method of knitting in some particular way or style.

8. 8

   A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle.

9. 9

   A fastening, as of thread or wire, through the back of a book to connect the pages.

10. 10

    Any space passed over; distance.

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

11. 11

    Any least part of a fabric or clothing.

    to wet every stitch of clothes

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

    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.

    "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[.]

12. 12

    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.

    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.

13. 13

    datedA 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;

14. 14

    obsoleteA contortion, or twist.

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

verb

1. 1

   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.

2. 2

   To sew, or unite or attach by stitches.

   to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.

   With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.

3. 3

   To practice/practise stitching or needlework.

4. 4

   To form land into ridges.

5. 5

   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.

   For example, the butt joint can be welded with the continuous technique or the stitch technique.

   Apply cement and stitch as necessary. A hot knife can be used to seal down loose seams.

6. 6

   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.

   However, it is the depth and breadth of your scholarship, your incisive and decisive writing, your numerous books exemplifying this masterful craftsmanship (I stopped counting after nineteen), your wit, and your relentless resolve to listen and get it right that are now stitched into my memories.

   Effective landscape-scale conservation thus calls for stitching the management of public, tribal, and private lands together using collaborative processes to achieve mutual social and ecological objectives.

   The scheme promises to stitch parts of the city back into the commuter rail map, to reshape short urban journeys, and to relieve some of the pressure on the city's roads and bus routes.

7. 7

   To include, combine, or unite into a single whole. To combine two or more photographs of the same scene into a single image.

   I can use this software to stitch together a panorama.

8. 8

   To include, combine, or unite into a single whole. 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

   She talks briefly about their park picnic and then inserts a cliffhanger: “I’m going to stitch this when we’re either in a relationship or he absolutely obliterates my self-esteem.” (Stitch is a creation tool that allows users to add new content to an existing video.)

Forms

plural

stitches

past tense

stitched

past participle

stitched

present participle

stitching

third person singular

stitches