Seamless

Definitions: Seamless

Seamless

Adjective

1. Not having or joined by a seam or seams; "seamless stockings".

2. Used especially of skin; "his cheeks were unlined"; "his unseamed face".

3. Perfectly consistent and coherent; "the novel's seamless plot".

Date "seamless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references)

Synonyms: Seamless

Synonyms: unlined (adj), unseamed (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: seamed (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Seamless

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Whole	Unbroken, intact, uncut, undivided, unsevered, unclipped, uncropped, unshorn; seamless; undiminished; undemolished, undissolved, undestroyed, unbruised.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Seamless

English words defined with "seamless": Arrhaphostic. (references)

Specialty definitions using "seamless": billet mill ♦ Control Program ♦ directory service ♦ explosively anchored rockbolt ♦ FLOOR AND WALL APPLIER, LIQUID ♦ Holy Coat ♦ LOOPING LINE ♦ National Information Infrastructure ♦ PIERCING-MILL OPERATOR ♦ reeler operator, REELING-MACHINE OPERATOR, rolling-mill plugger, rotary-bar operator ♦ seamless sizer, SEAMLESS-TUBE ROLLER, seamless-tube-mill operator, SEWER AND INSPECTOR, steel pressure-resistant shells of seamless cylinders ♦ TOE PUNCHER, tube roller. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Seamless

Domain	Title
References	The 2000 Import and Export Market for Blanks for and Seamless Tubes and Pipes in Canada (reference) The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Blanks for and Seamless Tubes and Pipes (reference) The 2000 Import and Export Market for Blanks for and Seamless Tubes and Pipes in Oceana (reference) The 2002 World Forecasts of Blanks for and Seamless Tubes and Pipes Export Supplies (reference) The 2003 World Forecasts of Blanks for and Seamless Tubes and Pipes Export Supplies (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Planning Additions to Academic Library Buildings: A Seamless Approach (Occasional Papers (Library Administration and Management Association), No 3) (reference) Seamless Antilandscape (reference) Seamless Connections: Refocusing Your Organization to Create a Successful Continuum of Care (reference) The Invisible Future: The Seamless Integration Of Technology Into Everyday Life (reference) Workbook for Seamless Government (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Seamless (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Seamless

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Also, the Korean steel industry has not invested in R & D for the development of high value-added and specialty steel products like seamless pipes and high-speed tools. (references)
		One of Argentina's few true multinationals, Techint has claimed a strong share of the international market for seamless tubular steel, with production in Argentina and Mexico. (references)
		Where the management of large pools of resources was previously administered through structured hierarchies, new technology makes it possible to integrate the activities of separate companies into a single, seamless operation. (references)
Economic History	Malaysia	Another example of the seamless concept hospital, which will be soon-to-be operational, is Putrajaya Hospital. (references)
	Uae	The grouping's economic goal is to create a cohesive and seamless trading environment for organizations doing business between these nations. (references)
	Brazil	The products with largest import share were seamless tubes and pipes (12.7% of the total dollar amount), welded tubes and pipes (11.8%), strips and hoops (9.5%), drawn products (9.3%), pipe and tube fittings (8.4%), cold rolled coils / uncoated, (5.8% of total); hot dip galvanized sheets (6.7%), stainless steel sheets and coils (6.2%), bars (4.8%), concrete reinforcing bars (4.7%), rails and track accessories (3.7%), and silicon steel sheets and coils (2.3%). (references)
Political Economy	Luxembourg	Such political stability was demonstrated in the apparently seamless transition from the longstanding CSV(Christian Social)/LSAP (Socialists) coalition to a CSV/DP (Liberal Party) coalition in the June, 1999 national elections. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Seamless

"Seamless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Seamless" is used about 135 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	135	27,360

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Seamless

Country	Name
India	The Indian Seamless Metal Tubes Limited
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Seamless

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
seamless gutter	175	seamless paper	10
seamless pantie hose	100	seamless bra	10
seamless	80	seamless raingutter	9
seamless sock	41	aluminum seamless tubing	9
seamless gutter machine	31	seamless tubing	9
seamless pipe	24	hose pantie picture seamless	9
bustier seamless	21	free seamless background	9
seamless vinyl siding	20	seamless web	8
abc seamless	20	seamless guttering	8
seamless background	18	seamless epoxy flooring	8
seamless siding	18	2.1 factory seamless	8
seamless rain gutter	16	seamless steel pipe	7
seamless tube	15	aluminum gutter seamless	7
seamless tile	14	child seamless sock	6
seamless texture	14	seamless background tile	6
free seamless texture	13	seamless tights	6
factory seamless	13	seamless floor	6
abc seamless siding	12	hose pantie pic seamless	6
gutter machine seamless used	11	garment seamless	6
seamless underwear	10	seamless stainless steel tubing	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Seamless

Language		Translations for "seamless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏غير ملحوم. (various references)

Chinese		無縫 , � 缝. (various references)

Czech		bezešvý. (various references)

Danish		soemloes. (various references)

Dutch		naadloos. (various references)

Esperanto		senkunkudra, senjunta. (various references)

French		sans soudure, sans couture. (various references)

German		nahtlos (imperceptible, smooth). (various references)

Greek		χωρίσ ραφή, χωρίς ραφή, χωρίς συγκόλληση, άνευ ραφών. (various references)

Hungarian		varrat nélküli, varrás nélküli, egy darabban szőtt. (various references)

Italian		senza saldatura, senza cucitura. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		シーソー遊び (CD, CD-ROM, ceiling, ceiling lamp, centralized traffic control, coelacanth, compact disk, computerized typesetting system, consumer price index, consumer price survey, CPI, CPS, CTC, CTS, fielding practice, maximum amount to allot for a budget, Sea Beam, sea berth, Sea Chicken, sea utopia, seafood, seahorse, Sealab, seat, seat belt, seat cover, seat warmer, seed, seesaw, series, sheet, sheet feeder, sheet pile, skiers' greeting meaning "Good skiing!"), サロン的 (exclusive, sanction, sanctuary, Sangerism, sangria, sans couture, social, sour, sour cream, Sun, sunglasses, Sunkist, suntan oil, thank you, Thanksgiving Day). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		シー� レス , サンクチュール (sans couture). (various references)

Korean		이음새가 없�". (various references)

Manx		gyn whomm, gyn whaaley, gyn junt. (various references)

Pig Latin		eamlesssay

Portuguese		sem emenda. (various references)

Russian		полный (absolute, abysmal, all out, complete, corpulent, crowded, entire, exhaustive, floor-to-floor, flush, fraught, fubsy, full, full-bodied, full-length, implicit, in flesh, in the flesh, integrate, out and out, outright, overall, plenary, plug-to-plug, plum, portly, rotund, round, teetotal, thorough, total, unabbreviated, unabridged, uncut, utter). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bešavni. (various references)

Spanish		sin soldadura, sin costura. (various references)

Ukranian		суцільнотягнений, без шва. (various references)

Vietnamese		liền một mảnh đúc, không có đường nối. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Seamless

Derivations
	Words beginning with "seamless": seamlessly, seamlessness, seamlessnesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Seamless"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "seamless" (pronounced sē"mlus)
4	-m l u s	aimless, blameless, bottomless, harmless, homeless, limbless, nameless, shameless, timeless, victimless.
3	-l u s	accomplice, acropolis, ageless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, headless, heartless, helpless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, selfless, senseless, sexless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Seamless

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-m-s-s-s"
	-1 letter: measles, sesames.
	-2 letters: easels, lasses, leases, masses, measle, messes, sesame.
	-3 letters: almes, asses, easel, eases, esses, lames, lases, lease, males, masse, meals, mesas, sales, seals, seams, seels, seems, semes, slams.
	-4 letters: alee, ales, alme, alms, ease, eels, elms, else, emes, eses, lame, lams, lase, lass, leas, lees, less, maes, male, mass, meal, mels, mesa.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-m-s-s-s"
	+1 letter: assembles, shameless.
	+2 letters: assemblers, assemblies, calmnesses, lamenesses, malenesses, messalines, molasseses, seamlessly.
	+3 letters: aimlessness, amplenesses, assemblages, balminesses, disassemble, manlinesses, measureless, misassemble, reassembles, shamelessly, smallnesses.
	+4 letters: basementless, clamminesses, damselfishes, disassembled, disassembles, dismalnesses, essentialism, femalenesses, formalnesses, gladsomeness, harmlessness, lemongrasses, manfulnesses, masterliness, misassembled, misassembles, namelessness, reassemblies, seamlessness, selfsameness, sexagesimals, shamefulness.
	+5 letters: aimlessnesses, amiablenesses, blamelessness, disassemblies, dreamlessness, essentialisms, estimableness, harmfulnesses, leishmaniases, loathsomeness, marvelousness, masterfulness, miserableness, movablenesses, reassemblages, salmonelloses, semasiologies, shamelessness, subassemblies, superrealisms, supersalesman, supersalesmen, unmanlinesses, womanlinesses.
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