Stitch

Definition

stitch /stÇtʃ/ n ၁။ [C] (က) ခ်ဳပ္ျခင္း။ သီ ျခင္း။ ❍ SEW (ခ) (သိုးေမြးထိုးရာ၌) တစ္ေက်ာ့ထိုးျခင္း။ ၂။ [C] (က) ခ်ဳပ္႐ိုး။ ခ်ဳပ္ရာ။ make long/short/ neat stitches ❍ The cut in my hand needed five stitches. ငါ့လက္ၿပဲသြားတာ ငါးခ်က္ခ်ဳပ္ယူ ရတယ္။ (ခ) ခ်ဳပ္႐ိုး။ I'm having my stitches (taken) out today (ie removed from a wound that has healed). ၃။ [C,U] (esp in compounds) ဝက္သိုးထိုး၊ သီခ်ဳပ္ စေသာ ခ်ဳပ္နည္း။ ဇာထိုးနည္း။ an embroidery stitch. ၄။ [C usu sing ] ေလက်င့္ထိုးျခင္း။ Can we slow down and walk for a while? I've got a stitch. v ခ်ဳပ္သည္။ သီသည္။ တပ္သည္။ stitched pockets/ sleeves ❍ Every sequin was stitched on by hand. ❍ Can you stitch this button onto my shirt? ❏ have not (got) a stitch on/ not be wearing a stitch [ IDM ]( infml ) ကိုယ္တံုးလံုး၊ ဗလာက်င္းလ်က္၊ ဝတ္လစ္စားလစ္ ေနသည္။ ❏ in stitches [ IDM ] ( infml ) အူတက္မတတ္။ The play had us in stitches. ❏ stitching n [U] ခ်ဳပ္႐ိုး။ The stitching has come undone. ❏ a stitch in time (saves nine) ( saying )[ IDM ] ပ်က္ အစဥ္ျပင္ခဏ။ ❏ stitch sb up [ PHRV ]( Brit infml ) တစ္ပတ္႐ိုက္သည္။ He was stitched up by a former colleague. ❏ stitch sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ ခ်ဳပ္သည္။ သီသည္။ stitch up a wound / a cut. ၂။ ( Brit infml ) လက္စသတ္သည္။ stitch up a deal.

Examples

1. I put a couple of stitches in just to hold the ends together.
2. The shawl was knitted with beautiful neat stitches.
3. Drop a stitch (=let it fall off the needle accidentally)
4. I can sew
5. but I can’t do any of the fancy stitches.
6. The cut over his left eye needed 12 stitches.
7. I got a stitch and had to stop running.