| 单词 | seam |
| 释义 | seam (once / 888 pages) nv When you sew two pieces of fabric together, the line you are sewing is the seam. Coal appears in long, linear underground deposits referred to as seams. A garment that is coming to pieces will often first tear at the seams, the weakest parts. People use this image to describe anything that has reached a point where it is simply not holding together––your car could be falling apart at the seams, or if there's been a lot of stress in your life, you could be too — and you might have to move into a seamy neighborhood. WORD FAMILYseam: seamed, seaming, seamless, seams, seamster, seamy+/seamed: unseamed/seamless: seamlessly/seamster: seamsters/seamy: seamier, seamiest USAGE EXAMPLESThey tear at the seams of our commonality by implying that only some people are included in the ideals of liberty and justice. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Seam was 16 in 1997 when he was involved in an armed robbery in Lexington that left a convenience store owner dead. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) “Just own your seams and own your posts,” Wright said. Seattle Times(Dec 16, 2016) 1n joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces Hypo|Hyper fell, felled seam seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges surgical seam, suturea seam used in surgery welta raised or strengthened seam joint junction by which parts or objects are joined together 2n a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface Syn|Hypo|Hyper crease, crinkle, furrow, line, wrinkle crow's feet, crow's foot, laugh line a wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes dermatoglyphicthe lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet) frown linea facial wrinkle associated with frowning life line, lifeline, line of lifea crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live heart line, line of heart, love line, mensal linea crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates your emotional nature line of Saturn, line of destiny, line of fatea crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates how successful you will be depression, impression, imprint a concavity in a surface produced by pressing 3n a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit Syn|Hypo|Hyper bed coal seam a seam of coal stratum one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock) 4v put together with a seam seam a dress Hypo|Hyper suture join with a suture bring together, join cause to become joined or linked |
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