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Backstitch
noun · 78% connection
A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stitch, stitches, diagonal, pairs, thread.
Base pair
noun · 78% connection
one of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA mole…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stitch, stitches, diagonal, pairs, thread.
Baste
verb · 78% connection
To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stitch, stitches, diagonal, pairs, thread.
Bobbin
noun · 78% connection
A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a se…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stitch, stitches, diagonal, pairs, thread.
Caterpillar
noun · 78% connection
The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stitch, stitches, diagonal, pairs, thread.
Chain stitch
unknown · 78% connection
A stitch in which the looping of the thread or threads forms a chain on the under side of the work; the loop stitch, as distinguished…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stitch, stitches, diagonal, pairs, thread.
Clue
noun · 78% connection
A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stitch, stitches, diagonal, pairs, thread.
Darn
verb · 78% connection
To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stitch, stitches, diagonal, pairs, thread.
Diagonal
noun · 78% connection
A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stitch, stitches, diagonal, pairs, thread.
Fell
noun · 78% connection
A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stitch, stitches, diagonal, pairs, thread.
Lock stitch
unknown · 78% connection
A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stitch, stitches, diagonal, pairs, thread.
Loop
noun · 78% connection
A fold or doubling of a thread, cord, rope, etc., through which another thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which a hook can be hook…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stitch, stitches, diagonal, pairs, thread.
Monk's seam
unknown · 78% connection
An extra middle seam made at the junction of two breadths of canvas, ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stitch, stitches, diagonal, pairs, thread.
Myriapoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
A class, or subclass, of arthropods, related to the hexapod insects, from which they differ in having the body made up of numerous sim…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stitch, stitches, diagonal, pairs, thread.
Myzostomata
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of curious parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of ho…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stitch, stitches, diagonal, pairs, thread.
Narrow
verb · 78% connection
To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stitch, stitches, diagonal, pairs, thread.
Nereis
noun · 78% connection
A genus, including numerous species, of marine chaetopod annelids, having a well-formed head, with two pairs of eyes, antennae, four p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stitch, stitches, diagonal, pairs, thread.
Optigraph
adjective · 78% connection
A telescope with a diagonal eyepiece, suspended vertically in gimbals by the object end beneath a fixed diagonal plane mirror. It is u…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stitch, stitches, diagonal, pairs, thread.
