Stitch

Definition: Stitch

Stitch

Noun

1. Sewing consisting of a link or loop or knot made by drawing a threaded needle through a fabric.

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

Verb

1. Fasten by sewing; do needlework.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stitch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Etymology: Stitch \Stitch\, noun. [Old English stiche, Anglo-Saxon stice a pricking, akin to stician to prick. See Stick, intransitive verb.]. (references)

Industry

Mining

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Stitch

Action

Deed, act, overt act, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force; (display); feat, exploit; achievement; (completion); handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy; (plan).

Earliness

Prematurity, precocity, precipitation, anticipation;prematurity, precocity, precipitation, anticipation; a stitch in time.

Exertion

Noun: exertion, effort, strain, tug, pull, stress, throw, stretch, struggle, spell, spurt, spirt; stroke of work,Noun: exertion, effort, strain, tug, pull, stress, throw, stretch, struggle, spell, spurt, spirt; stroke of work, stitch of work.

Junction

Commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture,commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch; link; miter mortise.

Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span.

Physical Pain

Spasm, cramp; nightmare, ephialtes; crick, thrill, convulsion, throe; throb. (agitation); pang; colic; kink.

Crosswords: Stitch

Seamstresses Stitch a Sun-Shade for Skylab. Credit: NASA.

Catching that stitch in time, Mrs. Viola Schlaegel of the American Women's Volunteer Service unit at Glendale, California does a good turn for Corporal Hugh B. Helm of Lexington, Kentucky. Members of the American Women's Volunteer Service "Button Brigade". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

There was the stitch in the side

Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "stitch": a stitch in time ♦ backed stitch ♦ be in stitch ♦ Blanket stitch ♦ blind stitch ♦ buttonhole stitch ♦ cable stitch ♦ chain stitch ♦ crochet stitch ♦ double stitch ♦ drop a stitch ♦ Etching stitch ♦ Flat stitch ♦ garter stitch ♦ Glover's stitch ♦ half cross stitch ♦ hem stitch ♦ Herringbone stitch ♦ Kettle stitch ♦ knit stitch ♦ knitting stitch ♦ lazy daisy stitch ♦ Lock stitch ♦ machine stitch ♦ moss stitch ♦ overhand stitch ♦ Pearl stitch ♦ plain stitch ♦ purl stitch ♦ racked stitch ♦ rib stitch ♦ running stitch ♦ saddle stitch ♦ satin stitch ♦ shell stitch ♦ single stitch ♦ slip stitch ♦ spider stitch ♦ split stitch ♦ stitch down ♦ stitch in ♦ stitch of work ♦ stitch on ♦ stitch together ♦ stitch up ♦ stockinette stitch ♦ stocking stitch ♦ suture or stitch ♦ tent stitch ♦ To stitch up ♦ wheatear stitch ♦ wheel stitch ♦ with every stitch of canvas set ♦ without a stitch ♦ without a stitch of clothing ♦ without a stitch on. Additional references.

Beginning with "stitch": stitch-cutter, stitch-holes, stitch-in-time, stitch-up, stitch-ups, stitch-work.

Ending with "stitch": back-stitch, cross-stitch, faggot-stitch, feather-stitch, front-stitch, hand-stitch, hemming-stitch, hem-stitch, lock-stitch, loop-stitch, one-stitch, random-stitch, running-stitch, saddle-stitch, satin-stitch, six-stitch, tacking-stitch, whip-stitch.

Albanian

syth (bud, eye, gemma, germ, leaf bud, mesh, shoot), thur (braid, convolve, enmesh, fence, knit, pleach, shut up, spin, splice, twine, twist, weave), thile (buttonhole, loop), qep (dry up, hold one's tongue, ligature, needle, seam, sew, sew on, tab, tailor), ilik (buttonhole, mesh, noose, shank, tab, tag). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غرزة, ‏زردة, ‏عقدة خيط (ladder), ‏طرز (embroider), ‏ضحك بتشنج, ‏خاط الجرح (sew), ‏خاط (sew, suture, tailor), ‏ألم في الجنب, ‏ألم موضعي حاد, ‏رتق (darn, mend, sew), ‏درزة, ‏درز (seam, sew, stitching, vortex). (various references)

Bulgarian 

шия (cervix, neck, needle, sew, throat), бримка (ladder, mesh), бодеж (shoot, stab), бод, плетка. (various references)

Chinese 

針法 , 针 (Needle, Needles), 撩 (lift up, pull up, take, tease). (various references)

Czech

stehovat (baste), steh (lockstitch, suture), píchání, oèko (bud, hole), bodnutí (jab, prick, stab, sting, thrust), šít (make, sew). (various references)

Danish

sting, snoning (amount of twist, lay, snake, snaking, spinning, torsion, turn, twist, twisting), maske (mask), krydsning (cross, cross breeding, crossbreeding, cross-breeding, crossing, crossroadsÖøø ø è>ô:, decussation, duct, hybridization, interlacing, intersection, junction, road junction, traverse), borduresting, bindepunkt (binder, binding point). (various references)

Dutch

steek (loop, mesh, prick, spades, sting). (various references)

Esperanto

stebi (quilt), kudrero. (various references)

Faeroese

seyma afturíaftur (quilt). (various references)

Farsi 

کوک , بخیه زدن , بخیه جراحی , بخیه (Suture). (various references)

Finnish

tikki (trick), pisto (prick, sting). (various references)

French

point (stop), maille, coudre. (various references)

German

stich (bite, engraving, grasp, hint, jab, lurch, pang, piercing pain, prick, puncture, spades, stab, stab wound, sting, suggestion, taint, thrust, tinge, trick, twinge), steppen (quilt, quilting, steppes, tap dance), masche (craze, dodge, fad, hole, ladder, link, loop, mesh, pitch, ploy, run, trick), nähen (make, propinquities, proximities, seam, sew, sewing, sewn, stitch up, suture, to sew, to sew (sewed, to stitch), heften (baste, basting, clip, crimp, peg up, pin, rivet, sew, sew on, sew together, staple, tack, tack up). (various references)

Greek 

ράβω (needle, sew), ράπτω (needle, sew), ραφή (juncture, religious painting, seam, sewing, suture), σύνδεση (attachment, conjunction, connection, coupling, hookup, junction, ligature, link up, spanning, splice, syndication, tap), συνδετικό σημείο (binder, binding point), σουβλιά πόνου (pang), βελονιάζω (baste, thread), βελονιά ραφής, βελονιά, βάζω ράμματα, πόντος (ladder), πλέξη (knitting, weaving), τρύπωμα (felter), θηλιά (loop, noose, slip knot, tab), θηλειά (hitch, loop). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתפור (sew), לחבור (associate, be bound together, be joined, be united, join), לכלב (botch), להכליב (baste, tack), תך (seam), תפר (fell, seam, suture). (various references)

Hungarian

öltés (pin). (various references)

Indonesian

mencantumkan (attach, include, pin on). (various references)

Italian

punto (Dot, full stop, period, pip, pitch, point, quick, score, scratch, spot, stop, suspicion). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

編み目 , 縫目 (seam, suture), 縫い目 (seam, suture), 掛目 (weight), 差し込み (convulsions, griping pain, insertion, outlet, plug, power point, spasm of pain), ステアリン酸 (dance step, stacker, state, status, steal, stearic acid, Stegodon, Stegosaurus, step, step-by-step, stepfamily, steppe, stepping, steps, stick, sticker, stinger, thingirl). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さしこみ (convulsions, griping pain, insertion, outlet, plug, power point, spasm of pain), ぬいめ (seam, suture), かけめ (chip, shortage of weight, weight), あみめ (halftone, mesh), ステッチ . (various references)

Korean 

스티치 (stitched, stitching). (various references)

Manx

whaaley (clincher nail, clinchnail, cobble, seam, sew, suture), staik (cow-stall, stake), lhoob (bend, coil, convolution, curve, flexion, gulf, hank, hoop, link, rabbit snare, shackle, snare, staple clasp, twine, twine of snake, twirl), guin, greimmey (adhere, adherence, adherence of person, adhesion, attach, bite, bite off, catch, clutch, fishing tackle, grab, grasp, grip, gripping, hold, jam, lock in, monopolization, nab, pin on, seize, seizing, snap, snatch, snatch away, snatching, stick, stitch up, tooth), greim 'sy lhiattee, fuailley (sew). (various references)

Pig Latin

itchstay.(various references)

Portuguese

ponto (character, dot, full stop, jot, mark, matter, period, pinpoint, pip, point, prompter, punt, speck, speckle, spot, stop, token), ponto de costura. (various references)

Romanian

tigheli, prinde (acquire, apprehend, attach, bind, book, captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, clasp, clot, comprehend, cop, Curdle, engage, ferret, find out, fish, fix, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grow, hang, have, hit, hitch, intercept, nail, nip, overhear, pin down, reach, recruit, regain, round up, seize, set, shut, strike, succeed, tack, take, tie, work), ochi (aim, cover, covet, eyes, Gemma, glade, glances, link, loop, mesh, optic, orb, peeper, pink, pip, ring, scan, sight, suspect, take aim at, take sight, train, vortex), junghi (pang, stab, twinge), grimasã (grimace, mouth, mug), fir (bit, clue, grain, hair, lint, particle, purl, thread, tittle, wire), cusãturã (joint, seam, sewing), coase (baste, seam, sew, work), cale (Avenue, channel, course, distance, drive, means, path, road, route, step, Street, track, way), broda (amplify, embellish, embroider, purl, work), broşa (bind in paper, sew), împunsãturã (butt, cant, dig, jab, jeer, jest, pang, prick, prod, stick, tack, thrust), împunge (butt, jab, pink, pique, prick, prod, sting, thrust), ţoale. (various references)

Russian 

стежок (tack). (various references)

Scottish

snaim (a knot, a tie, knot), treaghaid (a darting pain, darting pain), fuaigh (connect, knit, sew), acaid (a pain, lancinating pain). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zašiti (sew), prošivati (quilt, sew), prošiti (sew, thread), praviti bodove, petlja (eye, hoop, loop, noose, runner, sphincter), go (bare, naked, nude, outright, starknaked, unclothed, undressed), bod, šav (joint, seam, suture, tuck). (various references)

Spanish

puntada. (various references)

Swedish

stygn, styng (pang, sting), nålstygn, maska (finesse, ladder, mesh, Mike, run, scrimshank, skulk, slack up, swing the lead). (various references)

Thai

การเย็บแบบตะเข็บลูกโซ่ (chain stitch). (various references)

Turkish

sancı (ache, colic, gripes, pain, pang, throe, travail, twinge), ilmik (bowknot, eye, knot, loop, noose, slipknot), ilmek (bowknot, knot, loop, noose, slipknot, thumb knot), giyecek, dikişle süslemek, dikiş yapmak, dikiş (needlework, seam, sewing, suture), ciltlemek (bind, case), bıçak gibi saplanan acı. (various references)

Turkmen 

tikin (joint, seam), depjemek. (various references)

Ukrainian

стьобати (quilt), стібок (tack), шити (build, needle, sew, tailor), гострий біль (bite), накладати шви, брошурувати (sew), петля (button hole, kink, loop, necklace, noose, ply, tag, twitch). (various references)

Vietnamese 

mẫu khâu, mũi đan. (various references)

Welsh

pwytho, pwyth, pigyn (prickle, thorn), gwni%o (sew), gwayw (pain, pang). (various references)

asuero, consuendi, consuerat, consuerunt, consui, consuo consui consutum, consuta, consuunt, iessui, soor, suam, suar, suas, sue, suham, sui, suis, suisque, suites, suo, vieo. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stitch": stitched, stitcher, stitcheries, stitchers, stitchery, stitches, stitching, stitchwort, stitchworts. (additional references)

Words ending with "stitch": backstitch, featherstitch, hemstitch, lockstitch, restitch, topstitch, unstitch, whipstitch. (additional references)

Words containing "stitch": backstitched, backstitches, backstitching, featherstitched, featherstitches, featherstitching, hemstitched, hemstitcher, hemstitchers, hemstitches, hemstitching, lockstitched, lockstitches, lockstitching, restitched, restitches, restitching, topstitched, topstitches, topstitching, unstitched, unstitches, unstitching, whipstitched, whipstitches, whipstitching. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stitch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Saitoh, Schiach, Schnirch, sdetch, sicht, sicth, sietch, skitch, slitch, smitch, stach, startch, stech, stetch, steth, sticht, stict, stiech, stitche, stoch, stoich, stuch, stuth, titch, zitch. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chits, stich.

-2 letters: chis, chit, cist, hist, hits, ichs, itch, sith, this, tics.

-3 letters: chi, cis, hic, his, hit, ich, its, sic, sit, tic, tis.

-4 letters: hi, is, it, sh, si, ti.

+1 letter: cattish, chutist, tachist.

+2 letters: chartist, chastity, chitters, chitties, chutists, esthetic, ethicist, fitchets, itchiest, restitch, stitched, stitcher, stitches, tachiste, tachists, techiest, theistic, thickest, thickets, thickset, tristich, twitches, unstitch.

+3 letters: aesthetic, asthmatic, atheistic, athletics, bitchiest, botchiest, catchiest, catechist, catfights, chapattis, chartists, chattiest, chertiest, chestiest, chitchats, couthiest, cystolith, esthetics, ethicists, hemstitch, orthotics, patchiest, pitchiest, pitchouts, putschist, stitchers, stitchery, stitching, synthetic, tachistes, tetchiest, theatrics, thematics, thicksets, topstitch, torchiest, touchiest, trichites, triptychs, tristichs, twitchers, witchiest.