(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.
Unpick
Definition:
(v. t.) To pick out; to undo by picking.
Example Sentences:
(1) However in a repeat of the current standoff over the federal budget, the conservative wing of the Republican party is threatening to exploit its leverage over raising the debt ceiling to unpick Obama's healthcare reforms.
(2) The task of unpicking exactly what type of gap in intelligence that the surveillance-savvy and well-organised bombers were able to slip through will take time, but it holds the key to preventing further Islamic State attacks.
(3) Somewhere like Ketchum – mind you, that can get pretty bumpin’ in winter.” We unpicked this slowly.
(4) This is not a deal that Walmart can suddenly unpick: it was announced in June and completed recently, approved by Massmart's international investors.
(5) The new deal thrashed out in a hurry in the small hours by the three main political parties – now, at last, having a common conversation – insisted on "underpinning" the pantomime horse of charter with a requirement that it could only be unpicked or amended by a two-thirds vote of parliament.
(6) When Labour was returned to power in 1997, many of us were optimistic that its virtual three-term majority afforded it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring forth a programme of socially progressive legislation that, if planned carefully, would prove difficult for future right-wing Tory administrations to unpick.
(7) The structure of the new ministry took some unpicking - but I assume at this stage that an administrative arrangements order will make sense of which portfolio bits have gone where.
(8) Even the House of Lords couldn’t stomach Osborne’s tax credit cuts | Polly Toynbee Read more In the immediate aftermath of the budget Osborne seemed to have pulled off his conjuring trick, but as often with budgets the IFS and others started to unpick the impact of his work.
(9) "The contracts are not due to be signed until May [and] anyone looking to sign one should understand that we'll do all we can to legally unpick them if David Cameron enters No 10.
(10) There are many flaws in the government case which a determined opposition will unpick between now and the next general election in 2020.
(11) Weissmann formerly led the FBI’s fraud unit and the taskforce that unpicked the complex financial dealings of Enron, after the giant energy corporation collapsed in December 2001.
(12) As long [ago] as it is, we will get to the bottom of it.” Pressed on whether he believes there was a Westminster-based paedophile ring, as has been alleged, Hogan-Howe said: “I don’t think we know yet.” Investigations into historical allegations contain “so much that’s difficult to unpick”, he added, with “some twists and turns” that are vital to the outcome of the case.
(13) Is there the staff and experience available to start unpicking it?” Dougal said cuts at Westminster were already affecting the Scottish fishing community’s relationship both with Defra and the EU.
(14) Such a move would, he said, be "part privatisation by stealth" and be impossible to unpick, resulting in a loss of value for taxpayers that ultimately own the organisation.
(15) At the frontline, the picture is murkier but richer: there's plenty of data (at least in acute settings) but this is rarely uncontested and often hard to unpick.
(16) Mackay warns against trying to unpick the complexities of the language.
(17) But the work penalty shows it may at least be possible to begin unpicking their electoral coalition.
(18) But it did not take long for the financial markets to unpick the Brussels agreement.
(19) Most commentators agree that if the UK votes to leave the EU, it will trigger a huge wave of parliamentary legislation, to unpick our UK laws from those of the EU.
(20) But the purpose of such sites is notoriously difficult to unpick.