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Definition: Seam |
SeamNoun1. Joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces. 2. A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles". 3. A stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit; "he worked in the coal beds". Verb1. Put together with a seam; "seam a dress". 2. Join with a seam. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "seam" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A flaw in material. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Rows of meshes which may be laced together in order to strengthen the netting. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Strictly speaking, the line of separation between two strata, but applied to thin beds. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Small flange or rim formed on the surface of an article along the joint of two parts of the mould. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Longitudinal defect found in finished or semi-finished products, originated from sub-cutaneous blowholes which have become elongated on rolling. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A longitudinal surface defect. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. A stratum or bed of coal or other mineral; generally applied to large deposits of coal b. A particular bed or vein in a series of beds; it is usually said of coal but may also pertain to ore minerals c. A thin layer or stratum of rock separating two distinctive layers of different composition or greater magnitude d. A joint, cleft, or fissure. Syn:crevice e. A plane in a coalbed at which the different layers of coal are easily separated. f. A very narrow vein.g. See:joint line. (references) |
Occupations | A finished edge on flat glass or mirrors on which the sharp corners are removed by an abrasive belt to form a semirounded edge. (references) |
Transportation | S are the joints between the long edges (usually foreand-aft) of plates. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SEAM | English | Safeguards Effectiveness Assessment Methodology | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SeamSynonyms: bed (n), crease (n), crinkle (n), furrow (n), line (n), wrinkle (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Junction | Commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture,commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch; link; miter mortise. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Seam |
| English words defined with "seam": basset ♦ Chain riveting, coal seam, coalface, Commissure, crop out ♦ Double riveting, drawing string, drawstring ♦ Enseam ♦ fell, felled seam ♦ Inseam ♦ Long wall ♦ Monk's seam ♦ palatine raphe ♦ raphe, rhaphe, rivet line ♦ seamed, Seaming, seamless, Slickensides, string, surgical seam, Sutural, suture ♦ To crop out ♦ Unseam, Unstitch ♦ welt. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "seam": displaced seam, disrupted seam ♦ french seam ♦ medium-thickness seam ♦ pitching seam, proud seam ♦ radial seam included volume ♦ seam checker, seam contour, SEAM HAMMERER, simple split seam, split seam ♦ thick seam. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "seam": Tarsorrhaphy. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | In mulitple seam areas, shuttle car loading is used to avoid dilution of the potash ore. Credit: J. Olson. |  | Production. Parachute making. A strong seam for a parachute that will see a lot of action is being made as this operator in an Eastern factory does zig-zag stitching with her machine. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | International Nickel Co. at the Pentagon. Soldering seam in gutter at the Pentagon. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Niger | Numerous foreign companies, including American firms, have taken out exploration licenses for concessions in the gold seam in western Niger, which also contains deposits of other minerals. (references) |
Trade | Philippines | Labels for blouses, dresses, jackets, robes, nightgowns, shirts and sweaters must be affixed at the center back neckline, or at any other appropriate place, such as side seam, facing of front placket, etc. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Seam" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Seam" is used about 353 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 353 | 15,179 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Williams Coal Seam Gas Royalty Trust |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "seam": bark seam ♦ baseball seam coil ♦ coal seam ♦ fell a seam ♦ felled seam ♦ flat felled seam ♦ french seam ♦ lap seam ♦ lock seam ♦ Monk's seam ♦ proud seam ♦ radial seam included volume ♦ seam blast ♦ seam lace ♦ seam off ♦ seam presser ♦ seam ripper ♦ seam set ♦ seam together ♦ seam up ♦ side seam ♦ surgical seam ♦ tennis ball seam coil ♦ To parcel a seam. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "seam": seam-free, seam-like, seam-loc, seam-picking, seam-to-seam, seam-up, seam-welded, seam-welding. | |
Ending with "seam": all-seam, coal-seam, non-seam, seam-to-seam, shoulder-seam, word-seam. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "seam"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shtresë (bed, coat, coating, course, covering, estate, flake, floor, horizon, layer, nappe, reach, region, sheet, strata, stratum, streak, tract, wash), tegel saldimi, tegel (bight, dart, selvage), rrudhë (cockle, corrugation, crease, Crinkle, furrow, pucker, ruckle, rugosity, wrinkle), qep (dry up, hold one's tongue, ligature, needle, sew, sew on, stitch, tab, tailor), plasaritem (chap, crack, flaw), mbresë (impress, impression, print, scar), lidhje (affinity, alliance, bandage, bearing, binding, bond, bracer, bracing, catena, communication, confederate, confederation, conjunction, connection, connexion, contact, cord, coupling, dressing, federation, join, joining, joint, knot, league, ligament, ligature, link, link up, linkage, nexus, rapport, regard, relation, relevance, relevancy, respect, signalling, tap, tie, tie up, truss, tying), e qepur (nagging), damar (lode, reef, streak, thread), bashkim (affiliation, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, coalescence, community, compound, confederation, conflux, conjunction, consolidation, coupling, fusion, hookup, integration, interconnection, interflow, interfusion, joinder, joining, joint, junction, league, ligature, linkage, merger, reconcilability, reunion, soldering, splice, unification, union, welding). (various references) | |
Arabic | وصلة (connection, connexion, joint, junction), تفتق (taper), تشقق (chap, cleave, crackle, rend, rift, splinter), عمل وصلة, الندبة (cicatrix), الشق (splitting), أثر الجرح (cicatrix, scar), درز (sew, stitch, stitching, vortex). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съшивам (piece, put together, sew together, sew up), съединявам с шев, спойка (binder, binding, cement, clincher, seal, solder, vehicle, weld), тънък пласт (lamella, sheet), шев (dart, joint, junction, making, needlework, raphe, stitchery, suture), оставам белег на, набръчквам (cockle, corrugate, crumple, furrow, pucker, purse, ruck, rumple), набраздявам (furrow, gully, gutter, line, rib, ridge), бръчка (cockle, corrugation, line, plica, plication, pucker, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rugosity, rumple, wrinkle), белег (earmark, guide, impress, incision, marking, patent, peg, print, scar, sign, snick, stigma, sully, symptom, tincture, token, trace, vestige, weal, welt), прослойка (intercalation). (various references) | |
Chinese | 缝 (stitched, stitching), 緎 (satin), 縫 (crack, to sew, to stitch), 接縫 . (various references) | |
Czech | sloj (bed), sešít (fine-draw, scarf, sew together, staple, stitch up), udìlat šev na èem, jizva (Mark, scar, Scaur, stigma, Wale), žíla (vein), šev (join, suture). (various references) | |
Danish | søm (nail), overvalsning (sliver, spill), overfladerevner (roak, roke), naht, lag (bed, coat, course, lag, layer, level, ply, round, sheath, sheet, slab, stratum, streak, tier, veneer, veneer sheet), forstærkningssøm (strengthening lacing), formsoem (joint line, match mark, mould joint, parting line), daarlig formsoem (joint line, match mark, mould joint, parting line), blind søm (strengthening lacing), blaere (belly, bladder, blister, blow, blowhole, bubble, delamination, gas pocket, void), åre (oar, vein). (various references) | |
Dutch | naad (suture), voeg (fishplate, rabbet, rebate, stratigraphic top edge). (various references) | |
Esperanto | suturo (suture), suturi (suture), kunkudro, kunkudraĵo, junto. (various references) | |
Faeroese | samankoming, penta (suture), felling. (various references) | |
Farsi | خطاتصال (Accolade), رگه نازک معدن , شکاف (Break, Chap, Chasm, Chink, Clef, Crack, Craze, Crevice, Cut, Fraction, Fracture, Hiatus, Incision, Interstice, Nick, Notch, Overture, Rake, Rip, Scar, Slash, Slit, Slither, Split, Suture), درزلباس , درزگرفتن (Caulk, Chink, Gasket), درزدادن , درز (Crevice, Gap, Interstice, Peephole, Slit, Suture), بهم پیوستن (Bind, Clobber, Concrete, Graft, Incorporate, Interlock, Knit, Knot, Link, Pan), بوسیله درزگیری بهم متصل کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | sauma (joint). (various references) | |
French | joint (seal), filon, couture (sewing). (various references) | |
German | Naht (fin, join, stitches, suture), Fuge (crack, fugue, gap, interstice, joint, splice), Ader (bent, blood vessel, core, lode, nerve, reef, vein). (various references) | |
Greek | ραφή (juncture, religious painting, sewing, stitch, suture). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לקט (anthology, collection, digest, gleaning), לחבר בתפר, תך (stitch), תפיר" (needlework, sewing, stitching), תפר (fell, stitch, suture). (various references) | |
Hungarian | varrás (needlework, sewing, suture), szegés (hem, hemming). (various references) | |
Italian | vena (inspiration, jugular, lode, mood, streak, Stringer, vein), strato (bed, coat, coating, layer, ply, stratum, stratus, tier), filone (current, lode, long loaf, streak, vein), cucitura (sewing). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 縫合 (suture). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そう (all, aspect, bed, cellar, class, conception, countenance, depository, destroy, elevator, ever, ex-, feel pain, former, formerly, general, go around, godown, granary, gross, idea, layer, magazine, monk, never, once before, originate, phase, priest, start, stream, suffer, thought, to accompany, to be added to, to be adjusted to, to become married, to comply with, to follow, to marry, to meet, to run along, to satisfy, to suit, treasury, warehouse, whole), ぬいめ (stitch, suture), つぎめ (a joint, joining point, joint), ほう"う (priest's name or posthumous Buddhist name, suture), あわせめ (joint), はぎめ (joint), はりめ, とじめ. (various references) | |
Korean | "기. (various references) | |
Manx | whomm, whaaley (clincher nail, clinchnail, cobble, sew, stitch, suture), juntal (joint, jointing, seaming), junt (commissure, joint). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eamsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sutura (dart, suture), costura (dressmaking, needlework, scar). (various references) | |
Romanian | sudurã (solder, soldering, weld, welding), strat (bed, coating, film, layer, ledge, lick, mantle, measures, overlay, ply, ridge, sheet, stratum), tiviturã (border, edge, edging, hem, hemming, skirt, welting), tiv (binding, edge, fringe, hem), tighel (skillet), margine (abutment, bank, border, bounds, brim, brink, compass, curb, edge, edging, end, extremity, fringe, kerb, ledge, limit, list, Marge, margin, outskirts, periphery, precinct, rim, termination, tether, verge), intercalaţie (parting), face crãpãturi, cutã (crease, flow, fold, frill, line, ply, wrinkle), cusãturã (joint, sewing, stitch), coase (baste, sew, stitch, work). (various references) | |
Russian | шов (joint, stiches, stitch, suture). (various references) | |
Scottish | sùdh (a seam between the planks of a ship). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | svinjska mast, sastaviti (assemble, compile, compose, compound, indite, join, piece, put together, scribe, sew together), pukotina (cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, gap, leak, rent), porubiti (detruncate, edge, hem, oversew), porub (facing, hem, thrum, wale, welt), mera za žito, šav (joint, stitch, suture, tuck). (various references) | |
Spanish | costura (dressmaking, join, needlework, sewing), veta (grain, lode, streak, stripe, vein), filón (pay dirt, pocket, vein). (various references) | |
Swedish | söm (horse nail, stitching, welt), skikt (coat, course, lap, layer, strata, stratum), skarv (cormorant, interval, join, joint). (various references) | |
Turkish | yatak (bearings, bed, berth, bunk, bye bye, den, doss, flop, haunt, hotbed, kip, mattress, recess, sack, seating, seminary), yara izi (scar), ters ilmikle örmek, tırmıklamak (Harrow, rake, rake over), maden damarı (lode, run, vein), kırışıklık (ruffle, wrinkle), kırışık (corrugation, crease, Crinkle, crinkly, crisp, crispy, furrow, liny, pucker, ruck, wrinkle, wrinkled, wrinkly), façasını bozmak, faça yapmak, dikmek (bed, bed out, construct, crop, engraft, erect, fix, ingraft, lay down, needle, perk, perk up, plant, post, prick, prick up, put stitches in, raise, rear, rest, rest on, rivet, seam together, seam up, set, set out, set up, sew, sew up, sow, stitch up, suture, tailor, Upend), dikiş yeri (juncture, suture), dikiş gibi iz bırakmak, dikiş (needlework, sewing, stitch, suture), bağlantı yeri, armuz. (various references) | |
Turkmen | September (row), tikin (joint, stitch). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шрам (blemish, cicatrix, scar, welt), шов (dart, suture), шиття (dressmaking, needlework, sewing, stitching), зшивати (sew), покривати шрамами. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vỉa than (coal-bed). (various references) | |
Welsh | haen (layer, stratum), gwrym (wale), gwni%ad (sewing, stitching). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old English | 450-1100 | seamestre. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | bordure. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 19, Verse 23 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oi oun stratiwtai ote estaurwsan ton ihsoun elabon ta imatia autou kai epoihsan tessara merh ekastw stratiwth meroV kai ton citwna hn de o citwn arrafoV ek twn anwqen ufantoV di olou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Milites ergo cum crucifixissent eum acceperunt vestimenta eius et fecerunt quattuor partes unicuique militi partem et tunicam erat autem tunica inconsutilis desuper contexta per totum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Þa þa cempen hine a-hengen hyenämæn his reaf & worhtan feower dælesælche kempe ænne dæl. & tunekan. Syetuneka wæs un-ä-siwed. & wæs al awefen. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Therfor the knyytis whanne thei hadden crucified hym, token hise clothis, and maden foure partis, to ech knyyt a part, and a coot. And the coot was without seem, and wouun al aboute. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Then the soudiers when they had crucified Iesus toke his garmentes and made foure partes to every soudier a parte and also his coote. The coote was with out seme wrought vpon thorowe out. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And when Jesus was nailed to the cross, the men of the army took his clothing, and made a division of it into four parts, to every man a part, and they took his coat: now the coat was without a join, made out of one bit of cloth. |
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| Language | John Chapter 19, Verse 23 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa gikalansang na si Jesus sa mga sundalo diha sa krus, ilang gikuha ang iyang mga bisti ug ila kining gibahin sa upat, usa alang sa matag-sundalo. Apan ang iyang kamisola walay tinahian, lunlon hinabol sukad sa taas hangtud sa ubos. |
| Croatian | Vojnici pak, pošto razapeše Isusa, uzeše njegove haljine i razdijeliše ih na èetiri dijela - svakom vojniku po dio. A uzeše i donju haljinu, koja bijaše nešivena, otkana u komadu odozgor dodolje. |
| Danish | Da nu Stridsmændene havde korsfæstet Jesus, toge de hans Klæder og gjorde fire Dele, een Del for hver Stridsmand, og ligeledes Kjortelen; men Kjortelen var usyet, vævet fra øverst helt igennem. |
| Finnish | Kun sotamiehet olivat ristiinnaulinneet Jeesuksen, ottivat he hänen vaatteensa ja jakoivat ne neljään osaan, kullekin sotamiehelle osansa, sekä ihokkaan. Mutta ihokas oli saumaton, kauttaaltaan ylhäältä asti kudottu. |
| French | Les soldats, après avoir crucifié Jésus, prirent ses vêtements, et ils en firent quatre parts, une part pour chaque soldat. Ils prirent aussi sa tunique, qui était sans couture, d`un seul tissu depuis le haut jusqu`en bas. Et ils dirent entre eux: |
| German | Die Kriegsknechte aber, da sie Jesus gekreuzigt hatten, nahmen sie seine Kleider und machten vier Teile, einem jeglichen Kriegsknecht ein Teil, dazu auch den Rock. Der Rock aber war ungenäht, von obenan gewirkt durch und durch. |
| Hungarian | A vitézek azért, mikor megfeszítették Jézust, vevék az õ ruháit, és négy részre oszták, egy részt mindenik vitéznek, és a köntösét. A köntös pedig varrástalan vala, felülrõl mindvégig szövött. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Setelah prajurit-prajurit itu menyalibkan Yesus, mereka mengambil pakaian-Nya. Pakaian itu dibagi empat: masing-masing mendapat satu bagian. Mereka mengambil juga jubah-Nya. Jubah itu tidak ada jahitannya--ditenun dari atas sampai ke bawah. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka segala laskar itu setelah sudah mensalibkan Yesus, lalu mengambil pakaian-Nya, dibahaginya empat, yaitu untuk tiap-tiap laskar satu bahagian, dan jubah-Nya pun; tetapi jubah itu tiada berjahit, hanyalah sehelai tenunan dari atas sampai ke bawah. |
| Maori | A ka oti a Ihu te ripeka e nga hoia, ka mau ratou ki ona kakahu, wehea ake kia wha nga wahi, ki ia hoia he wahi; me te koti ano: na kahore he tui o te koti, he mea whatu iho i runga a puta noa. |
| Norwegian | Da nu stridsmennene hadde korsfestet Jesus, tok de hans klær og delte dem i fire deler, en for hver stridsmann. Likeså tok de kjortelen. Men kjortelen var usydd, vevd fra øverst og helt igjennem. |
| Portuguese | Tendo, pois, os soldados crucificado a Jesus, tomaram as suas vestes, e fizeram delas quatro partes, para cada soldado uma parte. Tomaram também a túnica; ora a túnica não tinha costura, sendo toda tecida de alto a baixo. |
| Rumanian | Ostawii, dupqce au rqstignit pe Isus, I-au luat hainele, wi le-au fqcut patru pqryi, ckte o parte pentru fiecare ostaw. I-au luat wi cqmawa, care n`avea nici o cusqturq, ci era dintr -o singurq yesqturq de sus pknq jos. |
| Shuar | Suntarsha Jesusan Krúsnum awajainiar ni entsarmarin Kuátru akankar ankant ankant Júkiarmiayi. Tura ni pushirin apatsuk najanamu asamtai Jáaktinian nakitrarmiayi. Kame Yakíya nunkaani apaiyiachma takamtsukuyi. |
| Spanish | Cuando los soldados crucificaron a Jesús, tomaron los vestidos de él e hicieron cuatro partes, una para cada soldado. Además, tomaron la túnica, pero la túnica no tenía costura; era tejida entera de arriba abajo. |
| Swahili | Askari walipokwisha msulubisha Yesu, walizichukua nguo zake, wakazigawa mafungu manne, fungu moja kwa kila askari. Walichukua pia na kanzu yake; kanzu hiyo ilikuwa imefumwa kwa kipande kimoja tu, bila mshono. |
| Swedish | Då nu krigsmännen hade korsfäst Jesus, togo de hans kläder och delade dem i fyra delar, en del åt var krigsman. Också livklädnaden togo de. Men livklädnaden hade inga sömmar, utan var vävd i ett stycke, uppifrån och alltigenom. |
| Uma | Kahudu-na tantara mpoparika' Yesus, ra'ala' -mi pohea-na pai' rabagi opo' bagia, hore-hore habagia-ra. Aga baju-na-hawo, uma ria daua-na, apa' ratanu' hantau lau. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "seam": seaman, seamanlike, seamanly, seamanship, seamanships, seamark, seamarks, seamed, seamen, seamer, seamers, seamier, seamiest, seaminess, seaminesses, seaming, seamless, seamlessly, seamlessness, seamlessnesses, seamlike, seamount, seamounts, seams, seamster, seamsters, seamstress, seamstresses, seamy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "seam": inseam, unseam. (additional references) | |
Words containing "seam": inseams, unseamed, unseaming, unseams. (additional references) | |
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"Seam" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asema, Asiema, ceam, eam, esan, Esema, Esma, Essam, jeam, keam, neam, saah, Saami, Sadam, saea, saeh, Saeima, saem, Saen, saeo, samf, Samm, Sanam, sayan, sbam, sbea, sbem, scean, scema, sdea, seac, seaf, seaq, seax, seaz, secam, seea, Seeau, seemd, sega, segamo, segan, sehan, Seim, Seima, Seium, sejm, selm, sem, Semaf, semb, seon, sepan, Sesm, seum, sewan, Seym, Sezan, sgea, sgem, sheam, shema, siame, sicam, siea, siem, Siham, Sima, sjem, skam, skeem, smae, snem, soea, spamm, speam, spean, speum, sqeem, sqem, stam, suam, svem, swean, sweem, sxea, sxem, syea, syem, szea, veam, yeam, zaen, zeah, zeam, zean, zeem. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "seam" (pronounced sē"m) |
| 3 | s ē" m | passim, seem. |
| 2 | -ē" m | agleam, beam, bream, ream, cream, creme, deem, dream, esteem, extreme, gleam, Hakim, redeem, regime, scheme, scream, steam, stream, supreme, team, teem, theme, upstream. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: maes, mesa, same. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-s" | |
-1 letter: ems, mae, mas, sae, sea. | |
-2 letters: ae, am, as, em, es, ma, me. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-s" | |
+1 letter: acmes, almes, amens, amies, amuse, beams, bemas, cames, dames, exams, fames, games, haems, hames, kames, lames, mabes, maces, mages, makes, males, manes, manse, mares, marse, maser, masse, mates, maxes, mazes, meads, meals, means, meats, mensa, mesas, names, nemas, reams, samek, satem, seams, seamy, shame, smaze, smear, steam, tames, teams, wames. | |
+2 letters: adeems, ageism, aimers, almehs, amazes, ambers, ambles, amebas, ameers, amends, aments, amices, amides, amines, amoles, amused, amuser, amuses, animes, armers, armets, armies, ashmen, assume, blames, breams, camels, cameos, camise, creams, damsel, demast, dermas, desman, dreams, edemas, emails, embars, embays, enemas, flames, fleams, frames, gambes, gamers, gamest, gasmen, gleams, harems, images, inseam, jambes, jetsam, lameds, lamest, lemans, lemmas, macers, maches, macles, madres, mahoes, mailes, maizes, makers, mameys, mamies, manges, manses, mantes, maples, marges, marses, masers, mashed, masher, mashes, mashie, masked, maskeg, masker, masque, massed, masses, masted, master, maters, mateys, matres, mattes, mauves, mavens, mavies, maybes, mayest, mazers, measle, measly, meatus, meccas, medals, medias, medusa, megass, menads, mensae, mensal, mensas, mescal, mesial, mesian, messan, metals, misate, miseat, muscae, mutase, myases, namers, omegas, ramees, ramens, ramets, ramies, ramose, realms, rearms, remans, remaps, sachem, samech, samekh, sameks, samiel, samite, samlet, sample, schema, scream, seaman, seamed, seamen, seamer, semina, sesame, shamed, shames, shmear, smazes, smears, smeary, smegma, stamen, steams, steamy, stemma, stream, summae, tamers, tamest, ulemas, unseam, vamose, yamens, zymase. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Company Usage 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Bible Trace 15. Abbreviations 16. Acronyms | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Bibliography |
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