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noun
A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, manufacturing, sewing, textiles
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noun
A suture.
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noun
A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
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Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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noun
The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
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Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
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Topics: business, construction, manufacturing, nautical, transport
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noun
A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
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noun
A line of junction; a joint.
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Usage: figuratively
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noun
An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
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Usage: historical
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noun
An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
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Usage: historical
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noun
Grease; tallow; lard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
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verb
To put together with a seam.
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verb
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.
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verb
To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
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verb
To crack open along a seam.
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verb
Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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verb
Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
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Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: joint
Narrower terms: fell, felled seam, suture, surgical seam, welt
noun
a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: bed
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Broader terms: stratum
Narrower terms: coal seam
noun
a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, line
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Broader terms: depression, impression, imprint
Narrower terms: crow's foot, crow's feet, laugh line, dermatoglyphic, frown line, line of life, life line, lifeline, line of heart, heart line, love line, mensal line, line of fate, line of destiny, line of Saturn
verb
put together with a seam
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: join, bring together
Narrower terms: suture
History
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”).
From Old English sēam (“a burden”), from Latin sagma (“saddle”).
From Middle English seym (“grease”), from Old French saim (“fat”). Compare French saindoux (“lard”).
From the noun seam.
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