Tra từ sew - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

making clothes by knitting (= using wool) WOOL
see also CLOTH, CLOTHES

- cotton for sewing: thread (noun U), cotton (noun U)
I need some strong black thread/cotton to sew on a button.
- the hole in a needle: eye
- to put thread through the eye of a needle: thread sth
I need my glasses to thread a needle nowadays.
- to join pieces of cloth, or to join sth to cloth, using a needle and thread: sew* (sth), stitch (sth)
These curtains were sewn by my great-aunt. ◎ I'll sew that button on for you. ◎ The handle of this bag needs stitching.
- things which are to be sewn: sewing (noun U)
She always has some sewing to do while she watches television. ◎ a pile of sewing
※ making clothes
- the activity of making clothes: dressmaking (noun U)
- if you sew your own clothes, they are handmade, made by hand
- a person whose job is to make clothes for men: tailor
- a person who makes dresses and other women's clothes: dressmaker
- a piece of paper that shows you how to cut out the materials to the right size: pattern
- to join the pattern to the cloth or one piece of cloth to another with pins, you pin sth (to sth)
- to make the cloth the right size, you cut* it (out)
to cut out a dress
- when you put the needle in the cloth and bring it out again, you make a stitch
Could you put a couple of stitches in my shirt?
- the bottom edge of a dress/skirt/pair of trousers, where the cloth is folded double: hem
You ought to take the hem up a bit.
- the smooth cloth which you sew inside a dress or coat: lining; verb: line sth
It's a wool coat, with a dark green lining. ◎ The dress is lined with fine silk.
- the line of sewing that you make when you sew one piece of cloth to another: seam
to sew up the side seams of a dress
- to sew stitches on cloth for decoration: embroider (sth)
to embroider your initials on a handkerchief ◎ a dress embroidered with red and green flower designs
- the work of embroidering sth, or sth that has been embroidered: embroidery (noun U)
a beautiful piece of embroidery
※ mending clothes
- to repair clothes by sewing: mend sth
You ought to mend the zip on those trousers before you wear them again.
- clothes which are to be repaired: mending (noun U)
There's a box full of mending, if you want something to do.
- if there is a hole in a piece of clothing and you mend it by sewing, you sew* it up; if you put another piece of cloth on top of the hole, you patch it, put* a patch on it
She had put patches on both knees of her jeans.
- if a piece of clothing is too large and you sew new seams to make it smaller, you take* it in; if you make it bigger, you let* it out
'This skirt's getting too tight for me!' 'Why don't you let it out a bit?'
- if sth is too long, you can take* it up; if it is too short, you can let* it down
- to mend a hole in clothes by sewing across it in one direction and then in another: darn sth
These socks have been darned so often that there's not much of the original sock left.
- a needle used for darning: darning needle