sewing

English

From sew +‎ -ing.

sewing

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

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.

action of the verb to sew

Arabic: خِيَاطَة‎ f (ḵiyāṭa), حِيَاكَة‎ f (ḥiyāka)
Egyptian Arabic: خياطة‎ f (xiyaṭa)
Armenian: կար (hy) (kar)
Belarusian: шыццё n (šyccjó)
Bulgarian: шиене n (šiene)
Chechen: тегар (tegar)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 縫紉／缝纫 (zh) (féngrèn), 縫／缝 (zh) (féng)
Finnish: ompelu (fi)
French: couture (fr) f
German: Nähen (de) n
Hungarian: varrás (hu)
Irish: fuáil f
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
Russian: шитьё (ru) n (šitʹjó)
Serbo-Croatian: šivanje
Southern Altai: тигиш (tigiš)
Spanish: costura (es) f
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: шиття́ n (šyttjá)
Walloon: keudaedje m

Something that is being or has been sewn