different between ache vs stitch

English

Alternative forms

• ake (rare)

Etymology 1

From Middle English aken (verb), and ache (noun), from Old English acan (verb) (from Proto-Germanic *akan? (“to be bad, be evil”)) and æ?e (noun) (from Proto-Germanic *akiz), both from Proto-Indo-European *h?eg- (“sin, crime”). Cognate with Low German aken, achen, äken (“to hurt, to ache”), North Frisian akelig, æklig (“terrible, miserable, sharp, intense”), West Frisian aaklik (“nasty, horrible, dismal, dreary”), Dutch akelig (“nasty, horrible”).

The verb was originally strong, conjugating for tense like take (e.g. I ake, I oke, I have aken), but gradually became weak during Middle English; the noun was originally pronounced as /e?t??/ as spelled (compare breach, from break). Historically the verb was spelled ake, and the noun ache (even after the form /e?k/ started to become common for the noun; compare again break which is now also a noun). The verb came to be spelled like the noun when lexicographer Samuel Johnson mistakenly assumed that it derived from Ancient Greek ???? (ákhos, “pain”) due to the similarity in form and meaning of the two words.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?k, IPA^(key): /e?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k

Verb

ache (third-person singular simple present aches, present participle aching, simple past ached or (obsolete) oke, past participle ached or (obsolete) aken)

1. (intransitive) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
   • c. 1593, Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene V:

     Fie, how my bones ache!
2. (transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.

Derived terms

• ache for

Translations

Noun

ache (plural aches)

1. Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
   • c. 1610, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene II:

     Fill all thy bones with aches.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• hurt

References

• Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition.

Etymology 2

From Middle English ache, from Old French ache, from Latin apium (“celery”). Reinforced by modern French ache.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?ch, IPA^(key): /e?t??/
• Rhymes: -e?t?

Noun

ache (plural aches)

2. (obsolete) parsley

Derived terms

• lovage (by folk etymology)
• smallage

Etymology 3

Representing the pronunciation of the letter H.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?ch, IPA^(key): /e?t??/
• Rhymes: -e?t?

Noun

ache (plural aches)

1. Rare spelling of aitch.

Anagrams

• Aceh, Chae, Chea, HACE, each, hace

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophones: hache, haches

Etymology 1

From Latin apia, plural of apium (“celery”).

Noun

ache f (plural aches)

1. celery (plant)

Etymology 2

From Middle French ache, from Old French ache, from Vulgar Latin *acca, probably an extension of earlier ha, from an unindentified source. Compare Italian acca.

Noun

ache m (plural aches)

1. aitch, The name of the Latin-script letter H.

Descendants

• ? Persian: ????
• ? Romanian: ha?
• ? Russian: ?? (aš)
• ? Vietnamese: hát

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English e?e, ace, æ?e, from Proto-Germanic *akiz. Some forms are remodelled on aken.

Alternative forms

• ake, eche

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?k(?)/, /?a?t?(?)/, /?at?(?)/, /???t?(?)/, /??t?(?)/

Noun

ache (plural aches)

2. Aching; long-lasting hurting or injury.

Related terms

• aken

Descendants

• English: ache
• Scots: ake
• Yola: aake

References

• “?che, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.

Etymology 2

From Old French ache, from Latin apium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?at?(?)/, /?a?t?(?)/

Noun

ache (plural aches)

2. A plant of the genus Apium, especially celery.

Descendants

• English: ache

References

• “?che, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

ache f (uncountable)

1. (Jersey) wild celery

   Synonym: céléri sauvage

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a?che

Verb

ache

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of achar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of achar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of achar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of achar

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: st?ch, IPA^(key): /st?t??/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Etymology 1

From Middle English stiche, from Old English sti?e (“a prick, puncture, stab, thrust with a pointed implement, pricking sensation, stitch, pain in the side, sting”), from Proto-West Germanic *stiki, from Proto-Germanic *stikiz (“prick, piercing, stitch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to stab, pierce”).

Cognate with Dutch steek (“prick, stitch”), German Stich (“a prick, piercing, stitch”), Old English stician (“to stick, stab, pierce, prick”). More at stick.

Noun

stitch (plural stitches)

1. A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
2. An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style.

3. (countable and uncountable) An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, brought on by exercise.

   I've got a stitch. I'm going to have to stop and rest.

   After about fifteen minutes I got terrible stitch.

4. A local sharp pain (anywhere); an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle.
   • 1848, Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, New Manual; Or, Symptomen-codex, page 186 (1846, Samuel Hahnemann, Materia Medica Pura, page 73):

     Violent continuous stitch in the region of the heart, the stitches multiplied when arresting the breathing. […] Feeling of heaviness in the muscles of the neck; he is obliged to bend his neck backwards. Cramp-like pain in right muscles of the neck, terminating in a stitch; the pain went off after motion and returned afterwards. […] Dull stitches in the region of the haunch-bones; pressure on the parts causes a simple pain. […] Drawing stitch in the right thigh, not perceptible when standing or ascending an elevation.

   • 1878, Timothy Field Allen, The Encyclopedia of pure materia medica v. 8, 1878, page 291:

     A sharp stitch in the left side of the head, on sitting down […] A sharp stitch in the upper part of the right side of the head, […]

5. A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn

6. An arrangement of stitches in knitting, or method of knitting in some particular way or style.
7. A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle.
8. A fastening, as of thread or wire, through the back of a book to connect the pages.
9. (by extension) Any space passed over; distance.
10. (obsolete) A contortion, or twist.
11. (colloquial) Any least part of a fabric or clothing.
12. (obsolete) A furrow.
13. The space between two double furrows.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English sticchen, stichen, from Old English *sti??an, sti??ian, from Proto-Germanic *stikjan? (“to stab, stick, prick”), influenced by the noun (see above).

Verb

stitch (third-person singular simple present stitches, present participle stitching, simple past and past participle stitched)

1. To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches.

2. To sew, or unite or attach by stitches.
3. (intransitive) To practice/practise stitching or needlework.
4. (agriculture) To form land into ridges.
5. To weld together through a series of connecting or overlapping spot welds.
6. (computing, graphics) To combine two or more photographs of the same scene into a single image.

7. (more generally) To include, combine, or unite into a single whole.

Synonyms

• (form stitches in): sew
• (unite by stitches): sew, sew together, stitch together
• (form land into ridges): plough (British), plow (US)

Derived terms

Translations

References

• stitch in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• stitch at OneLook Dictionary Search

Further reading

• stitch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia