Mend vs Stitch - What's the difference?
mend | stitch |
A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.
The act of repairing.
To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.
To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
* Sir W. Temple
To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
* Mortimer
* Shakespeare
To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.
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.
(sports) An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, caused by internal organs pulling downwards on the diaphragm during exercise.
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.
Hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.
:: You have gone a good stitch. — .
:: In Syria the husbandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in making their furrows. — Holland.
A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle.
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(obsolete) A contortion, or twist.
* Marston
(colloquial) Any least part of a fabric or dress.
A furrow.
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.
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(agriculture) To form land into ridges.
To practice/practise stitching or needlework.
(computing, graphics) To combine two or more photographs of the same scene into a single image.
As nouns the difference between mend and stitch
is that mend is a place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending while stitch is a single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.As verbs the difference between mend and stitch
is that mend is to repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine while stitch is to form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches.mend
English
Noun
(en noun)- My trousers have a big rip in them and need a mend .
Derived terms
* on the mendVerb
(en verb)- My trousers have a big rip in them and need mending .
- When your car breaks down, you can take it to the garage to have it mended .
- Her stutter was mended by a speech therapist.
- My broken heart was mended .
- The best service they could do the state was to mend the lives of the persons who composed it.
- Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit.
- You mend the jewel by wearing it.
Derived terms
* mend one's paceSynonyms
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* * * English ergative verbsstitch
English
(wikipedia stitch)Etymology 1
From (etyl) stiche, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(es)- cross stitch
- herringbone stitch
- drop a stitch
- take up a stitch
- a stitch in the side
- He was taken with a cold and with stitches, which was, indeed, a pleurisy.
- If you talk, Or pull your face into a stitch again, I shall be angry.
- to wet every stitch of clothes.
- She didn't have a stitch on
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Etymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
- to stitch a shirt bosom.
- to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.
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- I can use this software to stitch together a panorama.
