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sewing

sew·ing
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [soh-ing]
    • /ˈsoʊ ɪŋ/
    • /ˈsəʊɪŋ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [soh-ing]
    • /ˈsoʊ ɪŋ/

Definitions of sewing word

  • noun sewing the amount of additional water necessary to float a grounded vessel. 1
  • verb with object sewing to ground (a vessel) at low tide (sometimes fol by up). 1
  • verb without object sewing (of a vessel) to be grounded at low tide. 1
  • noun sewing hobby, activity 1
  • noun sewing cloth being sewn 1
  • uncountable noun sewing Sewing is the activity of making or mending clothes or other things using a needle and thread. 0

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Origin of sewing

First appearance:

before 1250
One of the 11% oldest English words
Middle English word dating back to 1250-1300; See origin at sew1, -ing1

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Sewing

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

sewing popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 97% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

sewing usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for sewing

noun sewing

  • homemaking — the establishment or management of a home; duties of a homemaker.
  • housework — the work of cleaning, cooking, etc., to be done in housekeeping.
  • ironing — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
  • basting — loose temporary stitches; tacking
  • couture — Couture is the designing and making of expensive fashionable clothes, or the clothes themselves.

Antonyms for sewing

noun sewing

  • dismemberment — to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
  • dissection — the act of dissecting.
  • necropsy — the examination of a body after death; autopsy.
  • anatomization — A process or act of anatomizing.

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