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Seam vs Sham - What's the difference?

seam | sham |

As a noun seam

is shawm.

As a proper noun sham is

syria.

seam

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (sewing) A folded back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
  • *
    • 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.
  • 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.
    • 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.
  • (construction) A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
    • Seams can be made or sealed in a variety of ways, including adhesive bonding, hot-air welding, solvent welding, using adhesive tapes, sealant, etc.
  • 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)
    • Precepts should be so finely wrought togetherthat no coarse seam may discover where they join.
    Derived terms
    * seamster * seamstress

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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
    • Seamed o'er with wounds which his own sabre gave.
  • To crack open along a seam.
  • * L. Wallace
    • Later their lips began to parch and seam .
  • (cricket) Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
  • (cricket) Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
    • 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.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) grease; tallow; lard
    • (Shakespeare)
    (Dryden)

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    sham

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Intended to deceive; false.
    • It was only a sham wedding: they didn't care much for one another but wanted their parents to stop hassling them.
  • counterfeit; unreal
  • * Jowett
    • They scorned the sham independence proffered to them by the Athenians.

    Synonyms

    * mock * See also

    Antonyms

    * genuine * sincere * real

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
    • The time-share deal was a sham .
  • Trickery, hoaxing.
    • A con-man must be skilled in the arts of sham and deceit.
  • A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
  • A decorative cover for a pillow.

    • Derived terms

    * shamateur

    See also

    * pillow sham

    Verb

    (shamm)
  • To deceive, cheat, lie.
  • * L'Estrange
    • Fooled and shammed into a conviction.
  • To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
  • * L'Estrange
    • We must have a care that we do not sham fallacies upon the world for current reason.
  • To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.

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