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# seam

«seam» in Mova's school dictionary: **the line where two pieces of cloth, leather or other…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a seam, seams); verb (seam, seams, seamed, seaming)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A seam is the line where two pieces of cloth, leather or other material are sewn or joined together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seam/#m1)

2) A seam is a thin layer of coal, gold or another mineral in rock underground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seam/#m2)

3) In cricket, the seam is the raised stitching round the ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seam/#m3)

4) To seam something is to join it with a seam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seam/#m4)

5) To seam something can also mean to mark it with deep lines, like the wrinkles on a face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seam/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In sewing and design lessons seams hold clothes together. In geography and history a coal seam is what miners dug out. Phrases: come apart at the seams (break or fall apart, also about plans or people), bursting at the seams (very full), seamless (smooth, with no joins), seam bowler (cricket).

### examples

- The seam on my jeans split when I bent down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seam/#x1)
- Grandma sewed a neat seam along the edge of the curtain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seam/#x2)
- The miners followed a thick seam of coal deep underground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seam/#x3)
- The football has stitched seams between its panels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seam/#x4)
- The cricket ball swung because the bowler held the seam upright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seam/#x5)
- The classroom was bursting at the seams with forty children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seam/#x6)
- Our plan for the party began to come apart at the seams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seam/#x7)
- Her face was seamed with many wrinkles, and was as brown as leather, and every now and then she stopped to wipe the perspiration which rolled down her face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seam/#x8)

### note

Plural seams. Seam sounds exactly like «seem» (to appear) — a homophone: «It seems my seam is torn.» Seamless means smooth, with no breaks.

### In the corpora

- [The skull has 22 bones: 8 around the brain and 14 in the face, joined by zigzag seams called sutures.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs/4/)
- [Do not eat from a can that is swollen or badly dented along its seams.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/3-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «seam» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seam/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.