seam
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
business
construction
cricket
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geography
geology
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
natural-sciences
nautical
sewing
sports
textiles
transport
Etymology: From Middle English seem, seme, from Old English sēam (“seam”), from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz (“that which is sewn”).
Cognate with Dutch zoom (“hem, edge”), German Saum (“hem, edge”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål søm (“seam”), Norwegian Nynorsk saum (“seam”), Swedish söm (“seam”).
Inflected forms:
form: seams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: seme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: seams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: seaming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: seamed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: seamed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
pos: noun
examples: Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
gloss: A suture.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
pos: noun
examples: He even roused himself to go to the mines once more: […]. He sat there, crippled, in a tub, with the under-ground manager showing him the seam with a powerful torch.
gloss: The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
pos: noun
gloss: A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
pos: noun
examples: Seams can be made or sealed in a variety of ways, including adhesive bonding, hot-air welding, solvent welding, using adhesive tapes, sealant, etc.
gloss: A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
pos: noun
gloss: A line of junction; a joint.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Precepts should be so finely wrought together[…]that no coarse seam may discover where they join.
gloss: To put together with a seam.
pos: verb
examples: Thus, seamed with many scars, / Bursting these prison bars, / Up to its native stars / My soul ascended!
gloss: To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
pos: verb
gloss: To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
pos: verb
examples: Seam'd o'er with wounds which his own sabre gave.
gloss: To crack open along a seam.
pos: verb
examples: Later their lips began to parch and seam.
gloss: Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
pos: verb
gloss: Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
pos: verb
Derived words: Bermuda seam
coal seam
devil seam
double lock standing seam
enseam
felled seam
field seam
flat-felled seam
flat-fell seam
four-seam fastball
French seam
inseam
interseam
monk's seam
outseam
overseam
princess seam
quarter seam
seam allowance
seam carving
seamfree
seamhead
seam lace
seamless
seamlet
seamlike
seamline
seam presser
seam set
seamster
seamstress
seamy
sideseam
standing seam
two-seam fastball
reseam
seamer
unseam
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