(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.
Tuck
Definition:
(n.) Food; pastry; sweetmeats.
(n.) A horizontal sewed fold, such as is made in a garment, to shorten it; a plait.
(n.) A small net used for taking fish from a larger one; -- called also tuck-net.
(n.) A pull; a lugging.
(n.) The part of a vessel where the ends of the bottom planks meet under the stern.
(n.) A long, narrow sword; a rapier.
(n.) The beat of a drum.
(v. t.) To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck up one's sleeves.
(v. t.) To make a tuck or tucks in; as, to tuck a dress.
(v. t.) To inclose; to put within; to press into a close place; as, to tuck a child into a bed; to tuck a book under one's arm, or into a pocket.
(v. t.) To full, as cloth.
(v. i.) To contract; to draw together.
Example Sentences:
(1) Medial canthal tendon resection and tucks or transnasal wiring are then performed.
(2) Moses buzzed about with intent, while Cesc Fàbregas relished a forward role tucked just behind Costa.
(3) That’s before you even begin to consider the sort of outfits, polite eating and staged photos that guarantee I end up with a bleeding foot, skirt tucked into my knickers, mint in my teeth and a fixed smile last seen on a taxidermied pike.
(4) Iris tucking of at least one lens foot was noted in 28% of the cases.
(5) Tuck has been head here for 15 years and tells me at least a dozen times how happy she has been.
(6) The winger’s cross teed up Sánchez and he tucked away his 10th goal of the season.
(7) 8.23pm GMT "It's now time for you lucky lot to tuck into your dinners" - you know what that means?
(8) But now jellied eels, the gelatinous fare that makes even the most enthusiastic omnivore think twice before tucking in, are becoming popular outside the capital for the first time.
(9) 3.54am GMT 74 mins Zemanski will tuck into midfield and help keep an eye on Rosales.
(10) His profligacy was punished five minutes later when Jay Rodriguez demonstrated how the sidefoot finish ought to be executed, tucking away Adam Lallana's squared pass from the right at the far post.
(11) Ribery lashes the thing towards goal with thunderous fury, Pyatov does well to get down and save, but Mamadou Sakho is on hand to tuck the ball home from close range.
(12) Sure, she has large fangs tucked into her soft underside, but she’s docile and exotic.
(13) Whereas I always curiously seem to always be here in the office merely reporting the fact that celebrities are tucking into ... well, to be honest, I’ve no idea what the hell this is.
(14) It's not enough for arts to be tucked away in the 20% of time that's left in the curriculum."
(15) Monsieur Blue open daily midday-2am; Tokyo Eat open daily midday-midnight; Le Smack open midday-midnight Le Musée de la Vie Romantique Cafe Vie Romantique This is one of the most discrete but enchanting Parisian museums, an early 19th-century mansion tucked away down a narrow cul-de-sac in the backstreets of Pigalle.
(16) Lukaku was not to be denied, heading home an Arouna Koné cross in the 22nd minute and tucking in Ross Barkley’s exquisite pass on the stroke of half-time.
(17) A subhuman primate model of ASI was developed in order to study a novel muscle tuck procedure designed to preserve anterior ciliary artery circulation.
(18) Yet the enemy of the bourgeoisie is impeccably bourgeois, and when I arrived for our meeting at a swanky hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, I found Haneke – just off a flight from Vienna, where he lives – tucking into a luxurious lunch in the restaurant.
(19) And when Cameron goes home to sleep in Number 10, and President Xi tucks himself under the silken bedspread of the Belgian Suite, one can only hope that, for a moment at least, they might be painfully aware that just a mile or so away, in an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, a replica of a Chinese political prisoner is lying in a mock-up prison cell for all the world to see.
(20) Furthermore, since clonidine affects the Type 3 behavior associated with tucking, but not the somewhat similar coordinated behavior involved in hatching and emergence from the shell (climax), we propose that this later behavior pattern be given a new name, Type 4 motility.