Definitions for seam

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seam seam

Spelling: [seem]

IPA: /sim/

Seam is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in seam (aems).

Definitions for seam

noun

1. the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
2. the stitches used to make such a line.
3. any line formed by abutting edges.
4. any linear indentation or mark, as a wrinkle or scar.
5. Knitting. a line of stitches formed by purling.
6. Geology. a comparatively thin stratum; a bed, as of coal.

verb (used with object)

1. to join with or as if with stitches; make the seam or seams of.
2. to furrow; mark with wrinkles, scars, etc.
3. Knitting. to knit with or in a seam.

verb (used without object)

1. to become cracked, fissured, or furrowed.
2. Knitting. to make a line of stitches by purling.

Origin of seam

before 1000; Middle English seme (noun), Old English sēam; cognate with German Saum hem; akin to sew¹, Greek hymḗn membrane (see hymen

Examples for seam

"There's a seam of cryolite in the Eastern Hills, according to the old maps," said Lake.

Then followed a long silence while the machine rattled down a seam.

This is marked as plainly as if a wall had been built up at the end of the seam.

Fumbleroooohski…'” (39) “'Look at me, ungh, splitting my own seam, oohh… going deep.

That I could scratch by rubbing it against the seam of my trousers.

The seam is twenty-six feet thick, and the coal is of good quality.

Take your seam indoors to your chamber, and stir not from it till supper-time.

You'll open a seam in your head and founder, first thing you know.

For a number of years, we lived in the Abu Tor neighborhood, right on the seam of East and West Jerusalem.

Roll the pork over the stuffing, like a jelly roll, until the seam is facing down and the fat back is on top.