| tailor | | |
| n. (person) | 1. sartor, seamster, tailor | a person whose occupation is making and altering garments. |
| ~ fitter | someone who fits a garment to a particular person. |
| ~ garment-worker, garment worker, garmentmaker | a person who makes garments. |
| v. (change) | 2. orient, tailor | adjust to a specific need or market.; "a magazine oriented towards young people"; "tailor your needs to your surroundings" |
| ~ adapt, accommodate | make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country" |
| v. (creation) | 3. cut, tailor | style and tailor in a certain fashion.; "cut a dress" |
| ~ fashion | the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior. |
| ~ gore | cut into gores.; "gore a skirt" |
| ~ design | create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner.; "Chanel designed the famous suit" |
| v. (creation) | 4. sew, tailor, tailor-make | create (clothes) with cloth.; "Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?" |
| ~ fashion, forge | make out of components (often in an improvising manner).; "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks" |
| ~ run up | make by sewing together quickly.; "run up a skirt" |
| ~ quilt | create by stitching together. |
| stitch | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. stitch | a link or loop or knot made by an implement in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, or sewing. |
| ~ crochet stitch | any one of a number of stitches made by pulling a loop of yarn through another loop with a crochet needle. |
| ~ knitting stitch | a stitch taken in knitting. |
| ~ stitchery, sewing | needlework on which you are working with needle and thread.; "she put her sewing back in the basket" |
| ~ embroidery stitch, sewing stitch | a stitch made with thread and a threaded sewing needle through fabric or leather. |
| n. (state) | 2. stitch | a sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from running. |
| ~ hurting, pain | a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder.; "the patient developed severe pain and distension" |
| v. (contact) | 3. run up, sew, sew together, stitch | fasten by sewing; do needlework. |
| ~ conjoin, join | make contact or come together.; "The two roads join here" |
| ~ hem | fold over and sew together to provide with a hem.; "hem my skirt" |
| ~ resew | sew again.; "The cuff of the coat had been resewn" |
| ~ overcast | sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next.; "overcast books" |
| ~ overcast | sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches. |
| ~ backstitch | do backstitches. |
| ~ pucker, tuck, gather | draw together into folds or puckers. |
| ~ finedraw | sew together very finely. |
| ~ fell | sew a seam by folding the edges. |
| ~ baste, tack | sew together loosely, with large stitches.; "baste a hem" |
| ~ hemstitch | sew with hemstitches.; "hemstitch a sleeve" |
| ~ retick, tick | sew.; "tick a mattress" |
| ~ fasten, fix, secure | cause to be firmly attached.; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man" |
| ~ cast on | make the first row of stitches when knitting. |
| ~ cast off | make the last row of stitches when knitting. |
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