Seme vs Seem - What's the difference?
seme | seem |
(linguistics, semiotics) Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation or sign.
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(Japanese fiction) An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top.
* 2008 , Dru Pagliassotti, "Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction", in Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre (eds. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti), McFarland & Company (2008), ISBN 9780786441952,
* 2010 , Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek , Volume 1, Yen Press (2012), ISBN 9780316221801,
* 2011 , Robin E. Brenner & Snow Wildsmith, "Love through a DIfferent Lens: Japanese Homoerotic Manga through the Eyes of American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Other Sexualities Readers", in Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World (eds. Timothy Perper & Martha Cornog), Libraries Unlimited (2011), ISBN 9781591589099,
(lb) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
* 1813 (14thc.), (Dante Alighieri), The Vision of Hell as translated by The Rev. H. F. Cary.
*:He, from his face removing the gross air, / Oft his left hand forth stretch'd, and seem'd alone / By that annoyance wearied.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..
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, title= (lb) To befit; to beseem.
:(Spenser)
Seem is a anagram of seme.
As verbs the difference between seme and seem
is that seme is obsolete form of lang=en while seem is to appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.As a noun seme
is anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation or sign.As an adjective seme
is obsolete form of semé|lang=en.seme
English
Etymology 1
.Noun
(en-noun)Etymology 2
Verb
Etymology 3
Noun
(head)Etymology 4
Adjective
(head)- I bear Azure seme of trefoiles, a Lions Paw in fæce, Or, armed Gules.
Etymology 5
.Noun
(en-noun)page 73:
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- Sebas has always been the seme .
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- The seme is larger, stronger, and more traditionally masculine, while the uke is smaller, weaker, and more feminine.
Antonyms
* ukeAnagrams
* * * ----seem
English
Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}
citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa”(season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) , passage=So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.}}