different between sitch vs stitch

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sich, siche, from Old English s?? (“a watercourse; sike”), from Proto-Germanic *s?k? (“slow flowing water; a trickle”).

Alternative forms

• sytch, sitche, sytch (obsolete)
• sich, siche (dialectal)

Pronunciation

Noun

sitch (plural sitches)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A brook; ditch; gutter; drain; ravine.

Related terms

• sike

Etymology 2

Shortening of situation, with phonetic respelling.

Noun

sitch (plural sitches)

1. (slang) Situation.
   • 2005, Lois H. Gresh & Robert E. Weinberg, The science of supervillains, John Wiley and Sons, page 1:

     So here's the sitch: Bruce Banner and Betty Ross Talbot are falling from roughly eight miles high.

   • 2007, George Bennett Fain, Pandora's Box, Lulu.com, page 159:

     Valeska had insisted 'she' stay, sleep where it was definitely safe. Just 'til the sitch could be settled.

   • 2008, Editors of TEEN magazine, Teen Uncover the Real You: A Quiz Book, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., page 2:

     Maybe one is more introspective and the other is more outgoing. Whatever the sitch, you two balance each other out.

   • 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):

     Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Great, I'll see you back in there. Also, I wouldn't lose my mind if you decided to chew a stick of gum. Thanks for understanding the sitch, Gina, you're a china doll.

Anagrams

• Tisch, chist, chits, sicht, stich

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