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winding
English
Etymology 1
From wind +? -ing, from wind (“to wrap”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wa?nd??/
Verb
winding
- present participle of wind
Noun
winding (countable and uncountable, plural windings)
- Something wound around something else.
- The manner in which something is wound.
- One complete turn of something wound.
- 1966, Cynthia Ozick, Trust, New York: The New American Library, Part One, Chapter 7, p. 44,[1]
- […] my mother’s pale arms emerged from the windings of her sheets and flailed in the air […]
- 1966, Cynthia Ozick, Trust, New York: The New American Library, Part One, Chapter 7, p. 44,[1]
- (especially in the plural) Curving or bending movement, twists and turns.
- 1610, John Healey, The City of God by Augustine of Hippo, London: George Eld, Book 13, p. 680,[2]
- The Labyrinth] A building so entangled in windings and cyrcles, that it deceiueth all that come in it.
- 1706, William Congreve, The Double Dealer, London: Jacob Tonson, Act I, Scene 1, p. 9,[3]
- […] in vain I do disguise me from thee, thou know’st me, know’st the very inmost Windings and Recesses of my Soul.
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Penguin, 2018, Chapter 2, p. 88,[4]
- The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain.
- 1849, Charlotte Brontë, letter cited in Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 1857, Volume 2, Chapter ,[5]
- Eugene Forcarde, the reviewer in question, follows Currer Bell through every winding, discerns every point, discriminates every shade, proves himself master of the subject, and lord of the aim.
- 1610, John Healey, The City of God by Augustine of Hippo, London: George Eld, Book 13, p. 680,[2]
- (electrical) A length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer.
- (music, lutherie, bowmaking) Lapping.
Translations
Adjective
winding (comparative more winding, superlative most winding)
- Twisting, turning or sinuous.
- Spiral or helical.
Translations
Etymology 2
From wind +? -ing, from wind (“movement of air”), as the wind was used to assist turning.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?w?nd??/
Verb
winding
- present participle of wind
Noun
winding (countable and uncountable, plural windings)
- The act or process of winding (turning a boat etc. around).
Derived terms
- winding hole
Anagrams
- dwining
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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
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