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Seam vs Stitches - What's the difference?

seam | stitches |

As nouns the difference between seam and stitches

is that seam is a folded back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.Wpstitches is plural of lang=en.

As verbs the difference between seam and stitches

is that seam is to put together with a seam while stitches is third-person singular of stitch.

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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    stitches

    English

    Noun

    (head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (stitch)