stitch
stitch is a 6-letter English word with 14 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
- intransitive verb. A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch.
- intransitive verb. A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.
- intransitive verb. A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side.
- intransitive verb. A contortion, or twist.
- intransitive verb. Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes.
- intransitive verb. A furrow.
- transitive verb. To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches; as, to stitch a shirt bosom.
- transitive verb. To sew, or unite together by stitches; as, to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.
- transitive verb. To form land into ridges.
- intransitive verb. To practice stitching, or needlework.
- noun. a link or loop or knot made by an implement in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, or sewing
- noun. a sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from running
- verb. fasten by sewing; do needlework
Synonyms
Common word forms
stitched, stitcher, stitches, stitching
Words from these letters
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