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seam
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si?m/
- Homophones: seem, seme
- Rhymes: -i?m
Etymology 1
From Middle English seem, seme, from Old English s?am (“seam”), from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz (“that which is sewn”).
Alternative forms
- seme (obsolete)
Noun
seam (plural seams)
- (sewing) A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
- 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.
- A suture.
- (geology) A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
- (cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
- (construction) A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
- A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
- (figuratively) A line of junction; a joint.
- 1697, Joseph Addison, Essay on Virgil's Georgics
- Precepts should be so finely wrought together […] that no coarse seam may discover where they join.
- 1697, Joseph Addison, Essay on Virgil's Georgics
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From the noun seam.
Verb
seam (third-person singular simple present seams, present participle seaming, simple past and past participle seamed)
- 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.
- 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
- Later their lips began to parch and seam.
- 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
- (cricket) Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
- (cricket) Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
Quotations
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Skeleton in Armor:
- Thus, seamed with many scars, / Bursting these prison bars, / Up to its native stars / My soul ascended!
Etymology 3
From Old English s?am (“a burden”), from Latin sagma (“saddle”).
Noun
seam (plural seams)
- (historical) An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
- (historical) An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
- 1952, L. F. Salzman, Building in England, p. 175.
- 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.
- 1952, L. F. Salzman, Building in England, p. 175.
Etymology 4
From Middle English seime (“grease”), from Old French saim (“fat”). Compare French saindoux (“lard”).
Noun
seam (plural seams)
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete) grease; tallow; lard
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Further reading
- seam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- seam (sewing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- AMEs, ASME, Ames, MSAE, Mesa, Same, eams, mase, meas, meas., mesa, same
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sæ???m/
Noun
s?am m (nominative plural s?amas)
- seam
Declension
Derived terms
- s?amere
- s?amestre
Descendants
- Middle English: seme, seem
- English: seam
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seah
English
Etymology
From Hebrew ????????
Noun
seah (plural seahs)
- (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about 7.7 L or 7 quarts.
Meronyms
- cab, kab (1?6 seah); ephah, epha (3 seahs); lethek, lethech (15 seahs); homer, chomer, cor, kor (30 seahs)
References
- "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Anagrams
- Ashe, Eash, HAES, HEAs, Hase, Shea, ashe, hase, shea
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