Seam

Quick meaning: Seam is a noun meaning (sewing) A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.

Meaning

(sewing) A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.

More Meanings

1. A suture.
2. (geology) A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
3. (cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
4. (construction, nautical) A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
5. A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
6. (figurative) A line of junction; a joint.
7. To put together with a seam.

Example Sentences

Later their lips began to parch and seam.

Seam'd o'er with wounds which his own sabre gave.

Precepts should be so finely wrought together[…]that no coarse seam may discover where they join.

Thus, seamed with many scars, / Bursting these prison bars, / Up to its native stars / My soul ascended!

Word Forms

• seams
• seaming
• seamed

Synonyms for seam

Depending on context, synonyms include furrow, line, crinkle, crease, bed, wrinkle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bed, furrow, wrinkle, crease, crinkle, line.

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