1. Assemblage de deux choses qui se fait par le moyen de l'aiguille avec du fil.
2. Ensemble des métiers qui concerne la fabrication de vêtements.
3. La conception des vêtements selon la mode. Haute couture.
The craft of making dresses.
(Homonym: seem).
1. Line formed by joining two pieces, as in sewing.
2. The space between adjacent planks or strakes of a ship.
3. A line, groove, or ridge formed by the abutment of edges; a thin layer or stratum (as of rock) between distinctive layers; also; a bed of valuable mineral and especially coal irrespective of thickness; a line left by a cut or wound; also; wrinkle.
4. A weak or vulnerable area or gap.
1. An article made by sewing; SYN. stitchery.
2. Joining or attaching by stitches; SYN. stitching.
ETYM Latin sutura, from suere, sutum, to sew or stitch: cf. French suture. Related to Sew to unite with thread.
1. A seam used in surgery; SYN. surgical seam.
2. An immovable fibrous joint (especially between the bones of the skull); SYN. sutura.
3. Thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together.
Stitching up of wound; seamlike joint between parts.
Any thread or wire used in surgery to stitch together the edges of a wound or incision. Also, the stitch itself.