What's the difference between sewing and thimble?

Sewing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sew
  • (n.) The act or occupation of one who sews.
  • (n.) That which is sewed with the needle.

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.

Thimble


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing the needle through the material. It is usually made of metal, and has upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the needle.
  • (n.) Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure.
  • (n.) A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes.
  • (n.) A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole.
  • (n.) A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England.
  • (n.) A ring of thin metal formed with a grooved circumference so as to fit within an eye-spice, or the like, and protect it from chafing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A conveniently formed thimble has been created for use in dissection during augmentation mammaplasty and gynecomastia operations which forms a rigid extension to the surgeon's finger.
  • (2) You will need : pins needle thread thimble iron Firstly, turn the garment inside out and iron the ripped area so it is nice and flat to work with.
  • (3) He left so few paintings – not more than 120 over a 40-year career – it is rightly said that he measured out his genius in thimblefuls.
  • (4) Paintings dark with age line the walls, and the audience sits on rough benches drinking thimbles of pruneau brandy.
  • (5) The pressurized gas exited through the pores of the glass frit and shattered the thin liquid film flowing on the surface of the thimble-shaped device to form small droplets.
  • (6) The use of a thimble to facilitate scrotal fixation of the testis is described.
  • (7) Radiation dose given to patients undergoing radiotherapy by 300 kVp X-rays is detected by a thimble ionization chamber placed at the skin surface.
  • (8) The chamber is capable of being calibrated directly with an iridium-192 source which has in turn been calibrated with thimble-type ion chambers.
  • (9) No significant differences in lithium release were found when the volume of media used in the test was reduced from 250 ml to 200 ml, the final stage of the test in pH 6.8 phosphate buffer reduced from 5 to 3 h, the number of tablets in each thimble reduced from three to one, or the prescribed phosphate buffers replaced with phthalate and Tris, respectively.
  • (10) A thimble-shaped glass frit nebulizer has been developed for atomic spectrometry.
  • (11) It cannot be hidden by the pea and thimble game played by the Australian government, which claims the offshore detention camps are out of our jurisdiction and in the control of the Papua New Guinean and Nauruan governments.
  • (12) Nespresso's velvety crema and its darkling thimble of ristretto daily give me the illusion I am a sophisticated continental, living in caffeinated leisure at a pavement cafe where only lovely things – passionate dalliances, superb cakes – are on today's menu.
  • (13) Two thimble chambers calibrated by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology provide calibration traceability of iridium-192 HDR sources and re-entrant chambers to a primary national standards laboratory.
  • (14) The total effects of the cavity displacement and the perturbation of the field by the cavity in thimble-chamber measurements of absorbed dose were investigated for electron beams of energy 15, 20, 30, and 39 MeV and for 60CO gamma radiation by LiF dosimeter rods of diameter 1 mm and length 6 mm.
  • (15) It was found that relative signal distributions from the shielded semiconductor detector agreed, within 1 per cent of the maximum signal, to the depth dose curves and that the relative signal in profile distributions also agreed, within 1 mm or 1 per cent of the signal at the central axis, as compared with dose measurements with a cylindrical, thimble ionization chamber.
  • (16) The cervical cap--a small, rubber, thimble-shaped barrier contraceptive--fits tightly across the cervix and prevents sperm from entering the uterus.
  • (17) The rate of temperature changes was studied in a nylon thimble chamber provided with a temperature sensor, when the chamber was inserted in different phantom media.
  • (18) An air kerma rate is measured using a calibrated thimble chamber in an "in-air" calibration jig.
  • (19) The thimble glass frit was pressurized internally by gases such as helium (He) or argon (Ar) while the test solution was applied externally to the frit.
  • (20) At the café table, at the bar, they order a thimble-sized espresso.