sewing
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsəʊɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsoʊɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
- Homophone: sowing
Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]sewing
- present participle and gerund of sew
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English sewinge, seuinge, seuwinge (“sewing”), equivalent to sew + -ing.
Noun
[edit]sewing (countable and uncountable, plural sewings)
- The action of the verb to sew.
- 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
[edit]Translations
[edit]action of the verb to sew
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Something that is being or has been sewn
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