What's the difference between plow and stitch?

Plow


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Plough
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Plough
  • (v. i.) Alt. of Plough

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reported rates of protein degradation in a recent paper on the effect of surgical trauma on muscle protein turnover [Hoover-Plow & Clifford (1978) Biochem.
  • (2) The model considers seasonal changes in the biomass of vegetation and animal diets, as well as specific plowing and crop-harvest dates; thus the integrated radionuclide intakes by humans are dependent on the seasonal timing of deposition.
  • (3) 49ers 38 - Packers 24, 14:57 4th quarter Gore plows though, and now Green Bay are in some serious trouble.
  • (4) LG Winter Gardens, Morecambe ( liveatlica.org ), 23-27 September Speed-The-Plow Lindsay Lohan , making her West End debut, follows in the footsteps of Madonna in David Mamet’s caustic Hollywood satire.
  • (5) He is already an artistic associate of the Old Vic and directed Spacey and Jeff Goldblum there in Speed-the-Plow ; he also directed a much-praised revival of Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy The Norman Conquests .
  • (6) For 15 years (1955 to 1970), I was plowing "new ground" pretty much by myself.
  • (7) And I would go out and there would be all these cameras there and that’s when it became difficult.” Lohan, who recently starred in the West End play Speed-the-Plow , decided to turn her back on the west coast while holidaying alone in Greece over the summer.
  • (8) There were 1,700 snow plows and 450 salt spreaders working the streets in New York City, De Blasio said.
  • (9) In Nepal, the traditional way to process rice is to use the same cows that plow the field – they thresh rice by walking over the stalks.
  • (10) Meanwhile, King plowed his own ground preaching love and brotherhood.
  • (11) All plow down dates are chosen before the majority of larvae enter diapause so as to eliminate as many overwintering survivors as possible.
  • (12) In association with blood coagulation, neutrophils undergo a secretory response (Plow, J Clin Invest 69: 564, 1982) and it has been suggested that plasma kallikrein is responsible for inducing this reaction (Wachtfogel et al., J Clin Invest 72: 1672, 1983).
  • (13) The PMI-1 antibody inhibits platelet adhesion and spreading on certain substrata (Shadle, P. J., Ginsberg, M. H., Plow, E. F., and Barondes, S. H. (1984) J.
  • (14) Welfare officer Hayley Plows said: “Colonies of ferals and strays have been at a rough guess 85% black or black and white, I unfortunately do not think this is by pure coincidence.
  • (15) Governor Christie (@GovChristie) There are approximately 3,300 plows and spreaders out on New Jersey highways, including the Turnpike, GSP and ACE.
  • (16) The characteristic eggs of Orientobilharzia turkestanicum were found in the feces of a plowing bull.
  • (17) Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.” From the prosecutor and the grand juries in Ferguson and Staten Island to the halls of Congress – where reform ideas like the End Racial Profiling Act or the Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act have hit a dead end – and a thousand places in between, our government institutions have been largely unresponsive to demands for real structural reform.
  • (18) Alleviation of arsenic phytotoxicity has been attempted by increasing the soil pH, by use of iron or aluminum sulfate, by desorbing arsenate with phosphate and subsequent leaching, and by cultural practices such as deep plowing.
  • (19) It destroyed 150 acres of land and plowed through hills next to subdivisions containing hundreds of homes.
  • (20) Nitrate-N accumulation in the 0 to 3 foot profile in late July was reduced by 75% (no tillage) to 38% (chisel plow) compared with the conventional moldboard tillage system in this 8-year-old study.

Stitch


Definition:

  • (v. i.) A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.
  • (v. i.) A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side.
  • (v. i.) A contortion, or twist.
  • (v. i.) Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes.
  • (v. i.) A furrow.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To sew, or unite together by stitches; as, to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.
  • (v. t.) To form land into ridges.
  • (v. i.) To practice stitching, or needlework.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An advantage of this procedure was a reduction in the number of stitches, which reduced operative time and obtained good vascular healing.
  • (2) Thrasher Mitchell: Then why is that idiot Bernard Hogan-Howe getting a knighthood when his plebby plods tried to stitch me up?
  • (3) In all cases the left superior and inferior valve leaves were approximated with 2 or 3 stitches.
  • (4) The graft was sutured by means of 20 single stitches (10.0 nylon) or applying a continuous suture (11.0 nylon).
  • (5) They ask me to stitch them up and then they instantly return.
  • (6) In some cases, one or more microsurgical epiperineurium-fascial stitches (EPFS) along the proximal and distal stumps of a transected nerve permit their firm approximation, shifting tensile forces from the suture line over longer segments of the nerve stumps.
  • (7) In deficient length of the cut arch of the aorta the left subclavian artery was divided; in equal diameter of both arches the lumen of the arch was reduced to 0.5 cm with stitches before formation of the anastomosis so as to prevent hyperfunction of the shunt.
  • (8) The second is a case of superficial invasion of Candida in a stitch ulcer.
  • (9) Chitin derivatives are also used in things like contact lens, surgical stitches and artificial skin.
  • (10) The new method includes the use of small Teflon pledgets to cover the conduction system at the crossing sites of suture line, and so that stitches can be placed on the pledgets to skip the conduction system.
  • (11) The balloons may have wilted and Nicholas Witchell's episiotomy stitches begun to heal, but the circus shows few signs of moving on.
  • (12) The skin stapler produced less inflammation and a better aesthetic result over time than the silk stitches.
  • (13) Although it remains unclear why he chose to place the muddled woman in a kitchen – clinging to her mug and surrounded by children's toys – as opposed to say, in a laboratory or a truck, he claims all the words were authentically spoken by "women in dozens of focus groups around the country", prior to being stitched together in this latest triumph for the fashionable, verbatim school of drama.
  • (14) Clinical observations, macroscopic evaluation of the enucleated eyes and results of the histopathological examination showed good tolerance of the retinal stitches through the tissue of the rabbits eye and indicate the possibility of a clinical utilization of this method.
  • (15) It was necessary to reoperate in 2 patients, in 1 because of a stitched-up drain and in 1 because of postoperative haematoma.
  • (16) Triggs appeared before a Senate estimates committee hearing on Tuesday for the first time since the prime minister, Tony Abbott, argued the commission’s inquiry into children in detention was a “blatantly partisan, politicised exercise” or a “stitch-up” against the Coalition government.
  • (17) Try Penny Dreadful Read more Conleth Hill, who plays Machiavellian royal fixer Varys, kept the crowd in stitches.
  • (18) To avoid injury conduction system stitches were placed from upper margin of the VSD, and to keep away tricuspid regurgitation we plicated a depression of septal leaflet which caused by anomalous chordae in VSD patch closure.
  • (19) Scores of archaeologists working in a waterlogged trench through the wettest summer and coldest winter in living memory have recovered more than 10,000 objects from Roman London , including writing tablets, amber, a well with ritual deposits of pewter, coins and cow skulls, thousands of pieces of pottery, a unique piece of padded and stitched leather – and the largest collection of lucky charms in the shape of phalluses ever found on a single site.
  • (20) Because of the various complications associated with blind-stitch percutaneous abomasopexy, we concluded that it is not an appropriate procedure for correction of left displaced abomasum in valuable cattle, but may be used as an alternative for salvage in less valuable cows.