Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: seam
IPA transcription: [s'im]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: seam
    Meaning: joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: seam
    Meaning: put together with a seam; "seam a dress"
Usage examples
  • Her mother, meantime, taught her all kinds of handiwork, and before she was twelve years old she could hemstitch, and seam and embroider.
  • As Trysdale grimly wrenched apart the seam of his last glove, the crowning instance of his fatuous and tardily mourned egoism came vividly back to him.
  • They are put together with a double-lapped spiral seam to give expansion-resisting qualities, and as an additional precaution small metal rings are slipped on the outside.
  • But while the king was in doubt about it, one of Herod's friends seeing a seam upon the inner coat of the slave, and a doubling of the cloth, [for he had two coats on,] he guessed that the letter might be within that doubling; which accordingly proved to be true.