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Definition: Hemstitch |
HemstitchNoun1. Stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups. 2. Embroidery similar to drawnwork. Verb1. Sew with hemstitches; "hemstitch a sleeve". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Hemstitch \Hem"stitch\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Hemstitched; present participle verb or noun Hemstitching.]. (references) |
Synonym: HemstitchSynonym: hemstitching (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hemstitch |
| English words defined with "hemstitch": Hemstitched. (references) |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hemstitch | 8 |
hemstitch placemats white | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hemstitch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | urjezë, bëj azhur, azhur. (various references) | |
Arabic | التطريز التنسيلى. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ажур (openwork), полустишие, подгъвам с ажур. (various references) | |
Finnish | reikäompelu. (various references) | |
French | ourlet (hem). (various references) | |
German | hohlsaum. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ヘブライ語 (health, health center, health check, health club, health food, health meter, healthy, heart, heaven, Hebrew, helicopter, Helios, helioscope, heliotrope, heliport, helium, helix, hell, Hellenism, hellfire, helm, helmet, Helmholtz, help, helper, Helsinki, hem, hemline, hemoglobin, hen party, Henckels, henna, Hepburn, Herakles, herald, Hercules, Hermes, hernia, heroin, herpangina, herringbone, Herzogovina, Hz, Mr, Switzerland, type of massage parlor). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ヘ ステッチ . (various references) | |
Manx | greim chemmalagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | emstitchhay.(various references) | |
Romanian | ajura (adjure, Pierce, pink), ajur (open-work). (various references) | |
Russian | ажурная строчка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | opšiti šupljikavim porubom, bod na porubu, šupljikav porub. (various references) | |
Spanish | vainica. (various references) | |
Swedish | hålsöm (hemistich), sy hålsöm på (hemistich). (various references) | |
Thai | การถักริม (ผ้า). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hemstitch": hemstitched, hemstitcher, hemstitchers, hemstitches, hemstitching. (additional references) | |
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"Hemstitch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chemtech. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "hemstitch" (pronounced 'Hem"stitch'): Catstitch. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-h-i-m-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: chemist, hitches. | |
-3 letters: cheths, chimes, ethics, itches, miches, stitch, theism, theist, thetic, tithes. | |
-4 letters: cesti, chest, cheth, chime, chits, cites, emits, ethic, heist, hemic, heths, hitch, items, mesic, meths, metis, miche, mites, mitts, smite, smith, stich, stime, teths, times, tithe. | |
-5 letters: chis, chit, cist, cite, emic, emit, etch, eths, etic, hehs, hems, hest, heth. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-h-i-m-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: hemstitched, hemstitcher, hemstitches. | |
+3 letters: hemstitchers, hemstitching, photochemist, phytochemist. | |
+4 letters: photochemists, phytochemists, rhythmicities, stichomythies, thermochemist. | |
+5 letters: chemosynthetic, chemotherapist, chrestomathies, histochemistry, photochemistry, phytochemistry, thermochemists. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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