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41stitch — 1. n. a very funny person. □ Harry is a stitch. What a sense of humor! □ Clare is a stitch, too. Her jokes can slay you. 2. n. a sharp pain, usually in the side. □ I got a stitch and had to drop out of the marathon. □ …
42stitch — n. & v. n. 1 a (in sewing or knitting or crocheting etc.) a single pass of a needle or the thread or loop etc. resulting from this. b a particular method of sewing or knitting etc. (am learning a new stitch). 2 (usu. in pl.) Surgery each of the… …
43stitch up — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms stitch up : present tense I/you/we/they stitch up he/she/it stitches up present participle stitching up past tense stitched up past participle stitched up 1) to repair a piece of cloth that has been torn by… …
44stitch-up — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms stitch up : singular stitch up plural stitch ups informal a dishonest or unfair arrangement or result …
45stitch — Synonyms and related words: French knot, ache, acute pain, ankle, articulate, articulation, batten, batten down, bit, bite, bolt, boring pain, boundary, buckle, butt, button, cervix, chain stitch, charley horse, chip, chunk, clasp, cleat, clinch …
46stitch — [stɪtʃ] noun I 1) [C] one of the short pieces of THREAD that you can see on cloth when it has been sewn 2) [C] a short piece of THREAD that is used for joining someone s skin together after it has been cut 3) [C] a piece of wool that has been put …
47stitch — /stɪtʃ / (say stich) noun 1. one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, surgical closing of wounds, etc. 2. a loop or portion of …
48Stitch — Recorded in several forms including Stitch, the diminutive Stitchell, the agent suffix Stitcher, and the rare Styche and Stych, this is an English surname. It is topogrphical or residential and described a person who owned or at least lived at a… …
49stitch on — phr verb Stitch on is used with these nouns as the object: ↑patch …
50stitch — [OE] Stitch was originally a noun, meaning ‘sting, prick’ (a sense which survives in the very specialized application to a ‘pain in the side, caused by exertion’). It came from a prehistoric Germanic *stikiz, which was formed from the base *stik… …
