Seam vs Splice - What's the difference?

In cricket terms the difference between seam and splice

is that seam is of a bowler, to make the ball move thus while splice is that part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.

As nouns the difference between seam and splice

is that seam is a folded back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.^Wpsplice is a junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.

As verbs the difference between seam and splice

is that seam is to put together with a seam while splice is to unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.

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)

Anagrams

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splice

English

(wikipedia splice)

Noun

(en noun)

(nautical) A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.

(electrical) The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.

(cricket) That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.

Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.

Derived terms

* bent on a splice * comma splice * cut splice * cunt splice * eye splice * splice tape

Verb

(splic)

To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.

To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.

(slang) To unite in marriage.

* 1851 ,

But come, it's getting dreadful late, you had better be turning flukes--it's a nice bed; Sal and me slept in that ere bed the night we were spliced .

(figuratively) To unite as if splicing.

He argues against attempts to splice different genres or species of literature into a single composition.

Derived terms

* splice the mainbrace