sewing

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊɪŋ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
• Homophone: sowing

Etymology 1

From sew +‎ -ing.

Verb

sewing

1. present participle and gerund of sew

Etymology 2

From Middle English sewinge, seuinge, seuwinge (“sewing”), equivalent to sew +‎ -ing.

Noun

sewing (countable and uncountable, plural sewings)

1. The action of the verb to sew.
2. Something that is being or has been sewn.

   She put down her sewing and went to answer the door.

   The sewing has come undone on this seam.

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob's Room:

     Mrs. Flanders had left her sewing on the table. There were her large reels of white cotton and her steel spectacles; her needle-case; her brown wool wound round an old postcard.

Derived terms

• sewing circle
• sewing kit
• sewing lounge
• sewing machine
• sewing needle
• sewing room
• Smyth sewing

 

Translations

action of the verb to sew

• Arabic: خِيَاطَة f (ḵiyāṭa), حِيَاكَة f (ḥiyāka)

  Egyptian Arabic: خياطة f (xiyaṭa)

• Armenian: կար (hy) (kar)
• Aromanian: cuseare f
• Belarusian: шыццё n (šyccjó)
• Bulgarian: шиене n (šiene)
• Catalan: cosida f
• Chechen: тегар (tegar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 縫紉／缝纫 (zh) (féngrèn), 縫／缝 (zh) (féng)

• Corsican: cusgitura f
• Finnish: ompelu (fi)
• French: couture (fr) f
• Galician: costura (gl) f
• German: Nähen (de) n
• Hungarian: varrás (hu)
• Ingrian: ompelostöö
• Irish: fuáil f
• Italian: cucito (it) m
• Japanese: 裁縫 (ja) (さいほう, saihō)
• Korean: 재봉(裁縫) (ko) (jaebong)
• Kyrgyz: тигиш (ky) (tigiş)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam: തുന്നുക (ml) (tunnuka), തയ്ക്കുക (ml) (taykkuka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sying m or f

  Nynorsk: sying f

• Portuguese: costura (pt) f
• Romanian: cusut (ro) n
• Russian: шитьё (ru) n (šitʹjó)
• Serbo-Croatian: šivanje
• Southern Altai: тигиш (tigiš)
• Spanish: costura (es) f, cosedura f
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: шиття́ n (šyttjá)
• Walloon: keudaedje m
• Welsh: gwnïo (cy) m

Something that is being or has been sewn

• Armenian: կար (hy) (kar)
• Bulgarian: нещо ушито (nešto ušito)
• Finnish: ompele (fi)
• French: couture (fr)
• Irish: fuáil f
• Italian: cucito (it) m
• Japanese: 縫い物 (ja) (ぬいもの, nuimono)
• Russian: пошив (ru) m (pošiv), вы́шивка (ru) f (výšivka)
• Serbo-Croatian: šivanje, švelo
• Spanish: costura (es) f, cosedura f
• Walloon: costeure (wa) f
• Welsh: gwniadwaith m

Anagrams

• swinge, Winges, Wigens, Wenigs, winges