Stitch vs Web - What's the difference?

stitch | web |

As a noun stitch

is a single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.

As a verb stitch

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

As a proper noun web is

(possibly|informal|outside|attributive use) the world wide web.

stitch

English

(wikipedia stitch)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) stiche, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Noun

(es)

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.

cross stitch

herringbone stitch

(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

drop a stitch

take up a stitch

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.

a stitch in the side

He was taken with a cold and with stitches, which was, indeed, a pleurisy.

(obsolete) A contortion, or twist.

* Marston

If you talk, Or pull your face into a stitch again, I shall be angry.

(colloquial) Any least part of a fabric or dress.

to wet every stitch of clothes.

She didn't have a stitch on

A furrow.

(Chapman)

Etymology 2

From (etyl)

Verb

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

to stitch a shirt bosom.

To sew, or unite or attach by stitches.

to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.

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, year=2011 , date=November 10 , author=Jeremy Wilson , title=tEngland Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report , work=Telegraph citation , page= , passage=With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets. }}

(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.

I can use this software to stitch together a panorama.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

* a stitch in time saves nine * blanket stitch * be in stitches * cable stitch * chain stitch * cross-stitch * drop a stitch * garter stitch * herringbone stitch * in stitches * lock stitch * moss stitch * pearl stitch, purl stitch * rib stitch * running stitch * stem stitch * stitch up * stocking stitch * take up a stitch

web

English

(wikipedia web)

Noun

(en noun)

The silken structure a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.

The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web .

Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web.

* Hawthorne

the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-colour or gold

* Washington Irving

Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures.

Specifically , the World Wide Web (often capitalized Web).

Let me search the web for that.

(baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.

He caught the ball in the web .

A latticed or woven structure.

The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.

* George Bancroft

The colonists were forbidden to manufacture any woollen, or linen, or cotton fabrics; not a web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, on penalty of exile.

The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.

(rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.

A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.

The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.

(manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.

(lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.

(dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.

A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.

* Fairfax

And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead.

# The blade of a sword.

#* Fairfax

The sword, whereof the web was steel, / Pommel rich stone, hilt gold.

# The blade of a saw.

# The thin, sharp part of a colter.

# The bit of a key.

Derived terms

* cobweb * spiderweb * webbed * webbing

Proper noun

: the World Wide Web.

I found it on the web .

Verb

(webb)

to construct or form a web

to cover with a web or network

to ensnare or entangle

to provide with a web

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