Furrow vs Seam - What's the difference?
furrow | seam | Synonyms |
A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal.
A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.
To make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc.).
To wrinkle
To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to worry, concentration etc.
(sewing) A folded back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
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A suture.
A thin stratum, especially of coal or mineral.
(cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
* 1952 , , Building in England , p. 175.
(construction) A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
(figurative) A line of junction; a joint.
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
To put together with a seam.
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.
To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
* Alexander Pope
To crack open along a seam.
* L. Wallace
(cricket) Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
(cricket) Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
Furrow is a synonym of seam.
As nouns the difference between furrow and seam
is that furrow is a trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop while seam is shawm.As a verb furrow
is to make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc).furrow
English
(Plough)Noun
(en noun)- Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.
- When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.
Verb
(en verb)- Cart wheels can furrow roads.
- Leave me alone so I can furrow my brows and concentrate.
See also
* plough a lonely furrowseam
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
- As white glass was 6s. the 'seam', containing 24 'weys' (pise, or pondera) of 5 lb., and 2½ lb. was reckoned sufficient to make one foot of glazing, the cost of glass would be 1½d. leaving 2½d. for labour.
- Seams can be made or sealed in a variety of ways, including adhesive bonding, hot-air welding, solvent welding, using adhesive tapes, sealant, etc.
- Precepts should be so finely wrought togetherthat no coarse seam may discover where they join.
Derived terms
* seamster * seamstressVerb
(en verb)- Seamed o'er with wounds which his own sabre gave.
- Later their lips began to parch and seam .
