Seam

/ˈsiːm/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Seams can be made or sealed in a variety of ways, including adhesive bonding, hot-air welding, solvent welding, using adhesive tapes, sealant, etc.

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!

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

Later their lips began to parch and seam.

As white glass was 6s. the 'seam', containing 24 'weys' (pise, or pondera) of 5 lb., and 2½ lb. was reckoned sufficient to make one foot of glazing, the cost of glass would be 1½d. leaving 2½d. for labour.

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• seams
• seme
• seaming
• seamed
• saim

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