| 单词 | sew |
| 释义 | sew (once / 305 pages) v Sew describes stitching something together. If you sew up the holes in your socks, you use thread and a needle to close them. The word sew comes from the Old English word siwian, to stitch. You can sew a patch on a pair of jeans, sew a dress, or sew up a hole in your grandmother's old quilt. A figurative meaning of sew, as in the phrase to sew something up, is to secure something or bring it to a happy conclusion, like sewing up the plot in the last chapter of a book. Don't confuse sew with sow, to plant or set in motion. WORD FAMILYsew: oversew, resew, sewed, sewer, sewing, sewn, sews+/oversew: oversewed, oversewing, oversewn/resew: resewed, resewing, resewn, resews/sewer: sewers/sewing: sewings USAGE EXAMPLESAt Jo-Ann Fabric, the sewing aisle, a beacon of immigrant industriousness, was humming. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) Basically you sew together an obese mouse that is missing leptin with a slim mouse, surgically attaching their circulatory systems. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) Her vocational activities included crocheting, quilting and sewing. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) 1v create (clothes) with cloth Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week? Syn|Hypo|Hyper tailor, tailor-make run up make by sewing together quickly quiltcreate by stitching together fashion, forge make out of components (often in an improvising manner) 2v fasten by sewing; do needlework Syn|Hypo|Hyper run up, sew together, stitch hem fold over and sew together to provide with a hem resewsew again overcastsew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next overcastsew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches backstitchdo backstitches gather, pucker, tuckdraw together into folds or puckers finedrawsew together very finely fellsew a seam by folding the edges baste, tacksew together loosely, with large stitches hemstitchsew with hemstitches retick, ticksew cast onmake the first row of stitches when knitting cast offmake the last row of stitches when knitting oversewsew (two edges) with close stitches that pass over them both fasten, fix, secure cause to be firmly attached |
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