Synonyms of the word seam


SEAMBED - CREASE - CRINKLE - DEPRESSION - FURROW - IMPRESSION - IMPRINT - JOIN - JOINT - LINE - STRATUM - WRINKLE

seam

  • n. (sewing) A folded back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more…
  • n. A suture.
  • n. A thin stratum, especially of coal or mineral.
  • n. (cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces…
  • n. An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
  • n. An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
  • n. (construction) A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
  • n. A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
  • n. (figuratively) A line of junction; a joint.
  • v. To put together with a seam.
  • v. To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch,…
  • v. To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
  • v. To crack open along a seam.
  • v. (cricket) Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
  • v. (cricket) Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
  • n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) grease; tallow; lard.

bed

  • n. A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, for resting or sleeping on.
  • n. A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
  • n. (heading) A layer or surface.
  • v. Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
  • v. Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.

crease

  • n. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
  • n. (cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping…
  • n. (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
  • n. (ice hockey, handball) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal.
  • v. (transitive) To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
  • v. (transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.
  • n. Archaic form of kris.

crinkle

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
  • v. (intransitive) To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
  • n. A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.

depression

  • n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of…
  • n. (geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
  • n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer…
  • n. (meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting…
  • n. (economics) A period of major economic contraction.
  • n. (economics, US) Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
  • n. (biology, physiology) A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the…

furrow

  • n. A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
  • n. Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal.
  • n. A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To wrinkle.
  • v. (transitive) To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to worry, concentration etc.

impression

  • n. The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
  • n. The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
  • n. A vague recalling of an event, a belief.
  • n. An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.
  • n. An outward appearance.
  • n. (advertising) An online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad. is shown…
  • n. (painting) The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
  • n. (engraving) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.

imprint

  • n. An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
  • n. The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
  • n. A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
  • v. To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
  • v. To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
  • v. To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.

join

  • v. (transitive) To combine more than one item into one; to put together.
  • v. (intransitive) To come together; to meet.
  • v. (transitive) To come into the company of.
  • v. (transitive) To become a member of.
  • v. (computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
  • v. To unite in marriage.
  • v. (obsolete, rare) To enjoin upon; to command.
  • v. To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
  • n. An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
  • n. (computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
  • n. (algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the…

joint

  • adj. Done by two or more people or organisations working together.
  • n. The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
  • n. The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
  • n. (anatomy) Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be…
  • n. The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
  • n. A cut of meat.
  • n. The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
  • n. (geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
  • n. (chiefly US slang, somewhat pejorative) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality…
  • n. (slang, with the definite article) prison.
  • n. (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
  • v. (transitive) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together.
  • v. (transitive) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
  • v. (transitive) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
  • v. (transitive) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into…
  • v. (intransitive) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.

line

  • n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
  • n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
  • n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
  • n. Direction, path.
  • n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
  • n. A letter, a written form of communication.
  • n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
  • n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
  • n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
  • n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
  • n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
  • n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
  • n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
  • n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
  • n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
  • n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
  • n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
  • n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
  • n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
  • n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
  • n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
  • n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
  • n. A measure of length.
  • n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
  • n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
  • n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
  • n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
  • n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
  • n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
  • n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
  • n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
  • n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
  • v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
  • v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
  • v. To form a line along.
  • v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
  • v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
  • v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
  • v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
  • n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
  • v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
  • v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
  • v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
  • v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

stratum

  • n. One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.
  • n. (geology) A layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout.
  • n. Any of the regions of the atmosphere, such as the stratosphere, that occur as layers.
  • n. (biology) A layer of tissue.
  • n. A class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status.
  • n. (ecology) A layer of vegetation, usually of similar height.
  • n. (computing) The level of accuracy of a computer's clock, relative to others on the network.

wrinkle

  • n. A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
  • n. A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
  • n. A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed…
  • n. (dated) A notion or fancy; a whim.
  • v. (transitive) To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
  • v. (intransitive) To pucker or become uneven or irregular.
  • v. (intransitive, of skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To sneer (at).
  • n. (US, dialect) A winkle.

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