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Definition: STICH |
STICHNoun1. A row, line, or rank of trees. 2. A line in the Scriptures; specifically (Hebrew Scriptures), one of the rhythmic lines in the poetical books and passages of the Old Treatment, as written in the oldest Hebrew manuscripts and in the Revised Version of the English Bible. 3. A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet. |
Date "STICH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Stich \Stich\, noun. [from Greek expression sti`chos row, line, akin to to go, march, English sty, v.i.]. (references) |
Crosswords: STICH |
| Etymologies containing "STICH": Stike. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "STICH" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (bite, engraving, grasp, hint, jab, lurch, pang, piercing pain, prick, puncture, spades, stab, stab wound, sting, stitch, suggestion, taint, thrust, tinge, trick, twinge). |
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Movie/TV Titles | ||
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Ernst von Bibra] / Engr. Stich v. Weger, Leipz. Druck von A. Alboth. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Bernhard Riemann / nach einem Stich von Weger. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "STICH" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 82.05% of the time. "STICH" is used about 39 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 82.05% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Noun (singular) | 10.26% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 5.13% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 39 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "STICH" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Stich | Last name | 1,000 | 15,652 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "STICH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | száröltés (stem stich). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ichstay.(various references) | |
Swedish | håll (direction, distance, hold, keep, part, side, station, stay, stich in one`s side, stitch, way). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "STICH": stichic, stichomythia, stichomythias, stichomythic, stichomythies, stichomythy, stichs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "STICH": distich, hemistich, tristich. (additional references) | |
Words containing "STICH": distichous, distichs, hemistichs, mastiche, mastiches, pastiche, pastiches, pasticheur, pasticheurs, polystichous, postiche, postiches, tristichs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "STICH" (pronounced sti"kh) |
| 4 | s t i" kh | stitch. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: chits. | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-s-t" | |
-1 letter: chis, chit, cist, hist, hits, ichs, itch, sith, this, tics. | |
-2 letters: chi, cis, hic, his, hit, ich, its, sic, sit, tic, tis. | |
-3 letters: hi, is, it, sh, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-s-t" | |
+1 letter: chints, ethics, itches, kitsch, lichts, schist, schtik, schuit, shtick, snitch, stichs, stitch, switch, thicks. | |
+2 letters: achiest, aitches, bitches, catfish, cattish, chemist, chicest, chitals, chitins, chitons, christy, chutist, chymist, cithers, coltish, cultish, distich, ditches, ethnics, fitches, gothics, hitches, isotach, isthmic, kitschy, litchis, ostrich, photics, pitches, richest, schists, schtick, schtiks, schuits, shticks, spathic, sthenic, stichic, tachism, tachist, techies, witches. | |
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