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# stitch

«stitch» in Mova's school dictionary: **one loop of thread made with a needle when sewing, or one…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a stitch, stitches); verb (stitch, stitches, stitched, stitching)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A stitch is one loop of thread made with a needle when sewing, or one loop of wool in knitting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stitch/#m1)

2) Stitches are threads a doctor uses to close a deep cut so it can heal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stitch/#m2)

3) A stitch is a sudden sharp pain in your side when you run. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stitch/#m3)

4) To stitch is to sew. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stitch/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In design and technology lessons, children learn stitches like running stitch and cross-stitch. In first aid and health, a deep cut may need stitches at the hospital. In PE, a stitch is a common pain while running; slowing down and breathing deeply helps. Phrases: «in stitches» (laughing a lot), «not a stitch on», «a stitch in time saves nine».

### examples

- She sewed the button on with tiny stitches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stitch/#x1)
- He needed five stitches in his knee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stitch/#x2)
- I got a stitch while running the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stitch/#x3)
- We did running stitch on our felt puppets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stitch/#x4)
- Grandma stitched a patch on my jeans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stitch/#x5)
- The joke had us in stitches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stitch/#x6)
- Slow down and breathe if you get a stitch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stitch/#x7)
- A stitch in time saves nine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stitch/#x8)
- While she stitched a change came to the lagoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stitch/#x9)

### note

Plural: stitches (add -es). «In stitches» means laughing very hard. «A stitch in time saves nine» means fixing a small problem early stops a bigger one later. In maths, counting stitches is a common pattern problem.

### In the corpora

- [Around 1799 the naturalist George Shaw checked the first platypus skin for stitches, and egg-laying was finally proved only in 1884.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/10/)
- [A cone round a pet's neck after an operation stops it licking its stitches, because licking can open the wound.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/11/)
- [A stitch while running passes if you slow down and breathe deeply.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/14/)
- [A boy in Leeds picked up a broken glass with his bare hands; he cut his palm and needed stitches.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/111-chores-and-broken-things/19/)
- [A toddler in Ohio found a razor left on the edge of the bath and cut his hand; he needed stitches.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stitch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stitch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.