Seam vs Same - What's the difference?
seam | same |
(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.
Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
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Similar, alike.
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Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.
A reply of confirmation of identity.
* ca. 1606 , (William Shakespeare), (King Lear) , Act V, scene III:
* 1994 , (Clerks) :
The identical thing, ditto.
Something similar, something of the identical type.
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, title= It or them, without a connotation of similarity.
It or them, as above, meaning the last object mentioned, mainly as complement: on the same'', ''for the same .
As nouns the difference between seam and same
is that seam is shawm while same is dog's, excrements.seam
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 .
Quotations
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Skeleton in Armor : *: Thus, seamed with many scars, / Bursting these prison bars, / Up to its native stars / My soul ascended!Etymology 2
See saim.Anagrams
* * * *same
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(-)- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
George Goodchild
- ''King Lear: This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent?
- Kent: The same . [http://www.rhymezone.com/r/gwic.cgi?Path=shakespeare/tragedies/kinglear/v_iii//&Word=the+same,
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- ''Dante: Whose house was it?
- ''Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's.
- ''Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?
- Blue-Collar Man: The same . [http://www.whysanity.net/monos/clerks5.html]
Usage notes
* This word is usually construed with the (except after demonstratives: "this same.." etc.). This can make it difficult to distinguish between the simple adjective and the adjective used absolutely or pronominally.Synonyms
* (identical) identical, equal, equivalent * (similar) similar, alikeAntonyms
* different, other, anotherDerived terms
* by the same token * of the same stripe * same-blooded * same difference * sameish * samely * sameness * same old same old * same old story * same-sex * self-samePronoun
(English Pronouns)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
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