1 [C] one of the small lines of thread that you can see on a piece of fabric after it has been sewn; the action that produces this:
Try to keep the stitches small and straight.
2 [C] one of the small circles of wool that you make around the needle when you are knitting:
to drop a stitch (= to lose one that you have made) * The knitting should be 120 stitches wide. * to cast stitches on / off (= to add or remove them)
3 [C,U] (especially in compounds) a particular style of sewing or knitting that you use to make the pattern you want:
chain stitch
4 [C] a short piece of thread, etc. that doctors use to sew the edges of a wound together:
The cut needed eight stitches. * I had six stitches in my foot after the accident. * I'm having my stitches out today.
5 [C,usually sing.] a sudden pain in the side of your body, usually caused by running or laughing:
Can we slow down? I've got a stitch.
IDIOMS
in stitches (informal) laughing a lot:
The play had us in stitches.
not have a stitch on
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for stitch is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is stitch a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, stitch is tagged as noun.
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