seam
Meaning of seam
noun
- A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
- A suture.
- A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
- The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
- A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
Seams can be made or sealed in a variety of ways, including adhesive bonding, hot-air welding, solvent welding, using adhesive tapes, sealant, etc.
- A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
- A line of junction; a joint.
- To put together with a seam.
- 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.
- To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
- To crack open along a seam.
- Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
- Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
- An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
- An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
noun
Grease; tallow; lard
Information about seam
- The plural form of seam is: seams.
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Hyphenation of seam
seam
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- seam is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
seam synonyms
Meaning wrinkle:
wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, line
Meaning bed:
Anagrams of seam
Ames, asem, Esma, maes, mase, Mesa, mesa, SAMe, same
Words that rhyme with seam
roundseam, beseam, deseam, reseam, whiteseam, prickseam, enseam, inseam, unseam, interseam, overseam, underseam, outseam, nauseam
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