Make stitches in

  • 1have someone in stitches — have (someone) in stitches informal to make someone laugh a lot. She told a couple of jokes that had us all in stitches …

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  • 2have in stitches — have (someone) in stitches informal to make someone laugh a lot. She told a couple of jokes that had us all in stitches …

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  • 3cast on — verb make the first row of stitches when knitting • Ant: ↑cast off • Topics: ↑handicraft • Hypernyms: ↑sew, ↑run up, ↑sew together, ↑stitch …

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  • 4stitch — stitcher, n. stitchlike, adj. /stich/, n. 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, or the surgical closing of wounds. 2. a… …

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  • 5stitch — /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 …

  • 6stitch — [[t]stɪtʃ[/t]] n. 1) clo one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing or the surgical closing of wounds 2) clo the loop or portion of thread so… …

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  • 7stitch — [stich] n. [ME stiche < OE stice, a puncture, stab: for IE base see STICK] 1. a) a single complete in and out movement of the threaded needle in sewing b) SUTURE (sense 4c) 2. a single loop of yarn worked off a needle in knitting, crocheting,… …

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  • 8stitch — 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… …

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  • 9needle — needlelike, adj. /need l/, n., v., needled, needling. n. 1. a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make… …

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  • 10needle — nee•dle [[t]ˈnid l[/t]] n. v. dled, dling 1) a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usu. of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing 2)… …

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