Dictionary Entry
seam
seam is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Grease; tallow; lard. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Grease; tallow; lard.
- 2noun
The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.
- 3noun
Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc.
- 4noun
A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal.
- 5noun
A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
- 6transitive verb
To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite.
- 7transitive verb
To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar.
- 8transitive verb
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.
- 9intransitive verb
To become ridgy; to crack open.
- 10noun
A denomination of weight or measure.
- 11noun
The quantity of eight bushels of grain.
- 12noun
The quantity of 120 pounds of glass.
- 13noun
joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces
- 14noun
a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
"he worked in the coal beds"
Synonyms
- 15noun
a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
"his face has many lines"
"ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
- 16verb
put together with a seam
"seam a dress"
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