What's the difference between seamstress and sew?

Seamstress


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over the coming years, as many of its longstanding dressmakers and seamstresses retire, the family-run business will find it hard to replace them so that the brand can continue making clothes in the UK.
  • (2) Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you’ll marry a music man Ballerina, you must have seen her, dancing in the sand And now she’s in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand For a moment it seemed possible that the person about to get out of the plane was a man of subtle taste and kindness, a man who could appreciate such beauty, who was secure enough in himself to set his arrival in Sacramento to the soundtrack of a 45-year-old song by a gay troubadour.
  • (3) A fibrosing pulmonary disease, which could not be further classified, was diagnosed in a 76-year-old woman who for 40 years had worked as a seamstress in the textile industry.
  • (4) Katrantzou herself dresses uniformly in black – in her serene London studios, where quiet seamstresses in neon and pastels snip busily at tables, hers seems to be the only shadow.
  • (5) The studied group comprised 63 seamstresses being employed in piece-work system, requiring great concentration of their attention and precision in producing the elements.
  • (6) His father works in the fields; the women work as seamstresses.
  • (7) Ergonomic investigations, performed during five years and covering 1350 women employed at clothing and knitting plants as seamstresses carrying out their work at piece-rate, direct line as well as beltsystem, under the conditions of restricted motorial activity, i.e.
  • (8) Southern seamstresses created it after the first major land battle of the American civil war, when southern soldiers confused the official Confederate flag, or “stars and bars”, for the US “stars and stripes”, and shot at each other.
  • (9) They were seamstresses and steelworkers, students and teachers, maids and Pullman porters.
  • (10) Among the survivors on Friday was Rehana Begum, a seamstress who worked at the Ether Tex garment factory on the third floor.
  • (11) The 45-year-old is one of eight children – seven brothers and a sister – of a British-Pakistani bus driver and seamstress, and grew up in a packed council house on an estate in the area he now represents in parliament.
  • (12) Riva was born in north-eastern France, the daughter of an Italian-born sign-painter, and worked as a seamstress before turning to acting.
  • (13) In another unit, new seamstresses who couldn't keep up were undressed and forced to sew naked.
  • (14) Hawa, a seamstress, and Erat, a farmer, have been married for 10 years and have three children.
  • (15) A heavy sewing machine is placed just outside her house – she is a seamstress and prefers to do her work outside (besides, her house does not have enough space inside).
  • (16) Last year Vela, a retired seamstress, became the oldest living Spaniard.
  • (17) Modest campaign A Negro seamstress, Mrs Rosa Parks, was going home one day.
  • (18) Mum was a very good seamstress and there came a time when all the other boys in the school had long trousers.
  • (19) A seamstress rescued on Friday after 16 days in the rubble continues to recover in hospital, doctors say.
  • (20) On the off-chance of seeing their brand triumph at what has become the world's premier fashion show, designers devote money and the workmanship of their finest seamstresses to producing one-off gowns which may, at the last minute, be left hanging unseen in a hotel room.

Sew


Definition:

  • (n.) Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy.
  • (v. t.) To follow; to pursue; to sue.
  • (v. t.) To unite or fasten together by stitches, as with a needle and thread.
  • (v. t.) To close or stop by ssewing; -- often with up; as, to sew up a rip.
  • (v. t.) To inclose by sewing; -- sometimes with up; as, to sew money in a bag.
  • (v. i.) To practice sewing; to work with needle and thread.
  • (v. t.) To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The affinity of human C1q subcomponent for IgM of normal human serum and Waldenström macroglobulins of patients Sew and Zuk were investigated by the polyethylene glycol 6,000 immune complexes precipitation test.
  • (2) Shapla has found a job at another factory but, due to her back injuries, as a sewing-machine operator, not a supervisor.
  • (3) The device can be used to locate a hypodermic needle at a distance of 50-90 mm, a sewing needle at 60-122 mm, a routine 7.62-mm bullet at 90 mm and a 5.6-mm bullet at 105 mm.
  • (4) The narrow lower part is sewed to the nasal mucous membrane with 3 atraumatic catgut sutures.
  • (5) The authors describe a simple Seldinger Catheter technique by which they removed a metallic sewing needle with attached thread from the esophagus of a 5 month old infant.
  • (6) Golby was raised in Hinckley, Leicestershire; his mother sewed knickers and his father worked in a factory, and there remains a matter-of-fact quality about him.
  • (7) A sewing needle, which penetrated the region of the wrist joint anteriorly, unknown to the patient, also penetrated the median nerve without causing any initial discomfort or neurological deficit.
  • (8) Angiography demonstrated the presence of an intra-aortic metallic foreign body that resembled a sewing needle.
  • (9) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
  • (10) At least that’s what one sewing blogger’s followers decided after an internet troll came out of nowhere to tell her she should “eat less cake”.
  • (11) It shows the costs in 1979 included £464 spent on replacing linen, £39 on "sewing carpet seams", £19 on an ironing board and £527 on cleaning carpets.
  • (12) You had a tumultuous tenure as editor of The Lady during which you got into trouble with the proprietors for carrying an interview with Tracey Emin in which she talked about sewing being a good distraction from masturbation.
  • (13) Three new cases of intracranial sewing needles are reported and are reviewed with 10 other published cases.
  • (14) First they sewed together their own Palestinian flags and hung them from trees near their school at a time when it was illegal to fly the flag.
  • (15) This paper was presented at the ICN SEW Resource Group meeting in Geneva.
  • (16) She learned to sew, and was also taught about personal health and hygiene.
  • (17) My brigade in the sewing shop works 16 to 17 hours a day.
  • (18) Jenny Rushmore, who blogs under Cashmerette , regularly shares her sewing plans and projects on her Instagram page – including her plans to make a swimsuit.
  • (19) BBC2's attempt to repeat the success of The Great British Bake Off – but with sewing – made a strong start with an average of 2.6 million viewers for The Great British Sewing Bee on Tuesday night.
  • (20) This technique was compared to transabdominal end-to-end anastomosis performed as low as possible, using the circular stapler and hand-sewing with a one-layer technique.

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