seam 1 of 2

as in to file
to mark with or as if with a line or groove in fencing circles it is a mark of honor to have one's face seamed with saber cuts

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noun

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Recent Examples of seam
Verb
Rohit, India's captain, has had a rotten year with the bat, but was disciplined early against the seaming new ball. Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 Another nice detail: the center seam down the shirt’s back. Abbey Stone, SELF, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
Construction is premium: buttons are clicky, body has seams, and everything feels sturdy. Ben Sin, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025 One unique feature of the ball gown was the outer layer was constructed to have no side seams. Shelby Wax, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for seam
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seam
Verb
  • Ben is not named in the lawsuit and there have been no criminal charges filed against him in the murder.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Baldoni has denied these allegations and filed his own $400 million defamation suit against Lively.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Feminine pleats, eye-catching cape sleeves, and a rosy shade of pink make this knee-length dress a showstopper on land or at sea.
    Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Ruffles and pleats echoed the shapes of roses in napa leather and velvet on clutches and shoulder bags.
    Stephen Garner, WWD, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The woman required sutures for injuries to her head.
    Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Every three minutes, for weeks on end, a caregiver carefully, dispassionately sinks needles deep into the sutures on each finger, drawing blood, to prevent the fingertips from rotting off.
    Victoria Kim, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • While anyone can enjoy listening to albums or 45s on the go, KORG also includes a wide range of features aimed at DJs, including playback speed adjustment, a beat looper (which gives the ability to layer scratches over a beat loop), filters, a fader and delay effects.
    Brad Moon, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • By March 4, some 153 of the facilities managed to reopen as charities scratched together money, according to Ajyal Sultany, head of communications for WHO in Kabul.
    Khwaga Ghani, NPR, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Orange loops show where the eclipse begins or ends at sunrise and sunset.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Two-step leadership involves reframing those losses as loops, not cliffs.
    Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Now, a few months away from his 63rd birthday, Cox is a tastemaker with an authoritative ear who makes audiences groove.
    Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Snow sings about getting her princess groove back, butts heads with her Evil Queen stepmother (a campy Gal Gadot) and gets a little help from her short new friends.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The corrugation process guarantees that the containers are robust and lightweight, which is necessary for stacking and transportation in an efficient manner.
    CMG Containers, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2024
  • Electrons in today’s graphene can move up to a micrometer before getting scattered by imperfections, such as corrugations in the surface of the material or grain boundaries between adjacent crystal patches.
    Chun-Yung Sung, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2012
Verb
  • And then the other thing that became my sort of unofficial job was scribe.
    Tonya Mosley, NPR, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Rob Roy, This Boys Life and Memphis Belle director Michael Caton-Jones is set to helm Eternity from scribes King Orba and Rachel Robinson-Zetzer with a story from Orba.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025

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“Seam.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seam. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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