different between throb vs stitch
throb
English
Etymology
From Middle English throbben; possibly of imitative origin.
Pronunciation
- enPR: thr?b, IPA(key): /???b/
- Rhymes: -?b
Verb
throb (third-person singular simple present throbs, present participle throbbing, simple past and past participle throbbed)
- (intransitive) To pound or beat rapidly or violently.
- (intransitive) To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm.
- (intransitive, of a body part) To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.
Derived terms
- throbbingly
Translations
Noun
throb (plural throbs)
- A beating, vibration or palpitation.
Derived terms
- throbber
- throbby
- heartthrob
Translations
Anagrams
- Borth, broth
throb From the web:
- what throbbing pain means
- what's throbbing headache
- what throbbing means in spanish
- what causes throbbing
- what causes throbbing pain in legs
- what does throbbing pain indicate
- what causes throbbing in the ear
- what causes throbbing tooth pain
stitch
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)
- A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
- An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style.
- (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.
- 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, […]
- 1848, Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, New Manual; Or, Symptomen-codex, page 186 (1846, Samuel Hahnemann, Materia Medica Pura, page 73):
- A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn
- An arrangement of stitches in knitting, or method of knitting in some particular way or style.
- A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle.
- A fastening, as of thread or wire, through the back of a book to connect the pages.
- (by extension) Any space passed over; distance.
- (obsolete) A contortion, or twist.
- (colloquial) Any least part of a fabric or clothing.
- (obsolete) A furrow.
- 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)
- To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches.
- To sew, or unite or attach by stitches.
- (intransitive) To practice/practise stitching or needlework.
- (agriculture) To form land into ridges.
- To weld together through a series of connecting or overlapping spot welds.
- (computing, graphics) To combine two or more photographs of the same scene into a single image.
- (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
stitch From the web:
- what stitch to use
- what stitch length for quilting
- what stitch to use for hem
- what stitch movie is angel in
- what stitch to use for elastic
- what stitch to use for quilting
- what stitch uses the least yarn
- what stitch to use for fleece
you may also like
- throb vs stitch
- management vs supervisory
- protestation vs plea
- proliferate vs impregnate
- unpropitious vs harmful
- encompass vs hide
- bring vs lump
- encase vs whitewash
- pastiche vs community
- usage vs performance
- restraint vs guardedness
- naked vs plainspoken
- acquiescence vs recognition
- tarrying vs deferment
- jacket vs binding
- injury vs devastation
- pocket vs ditch
- censure vs anathematise
- quality vs pitch
- match vs correspondent