Seams - English meaning

noun

An act or process of closing something, especially an institution, thoroughfare, or frontier, or of being closed.

Usage examples:

Hospitals that face closure

verb

Apply the closure to (a debate or speaker) in a legislative assembly.

noun

The act of stopping operations of a business, school, hospital, etc.

Usage examples:

A storm forced the closure of many schools and businesses., a sense of closure, yesterday’s vote wi…

noun

A sum of money paid into a bank or building society account.

Usage examples:

Cash funds which are an alternative to bank or building society deposits

verb

Put or set down (something or someone) in a specific place.

Usage examples:

He deposited a pile of school books on the kitchen table

noun

An amount of money paid into an account

Usage examples:

She made a large deposit last thursday., will you get your deposit back if you cancel the trip?, th…

verb

Link; connect.

Usage examples:

The tap was joined to a pipe

noun

A place or line where two or more things are connected or fastened together.

Usage examples:

It was soldered so well that you couldn't see the join

noun

A point at which parts of an artificial structure are joined.

Usage examples:

Seal the joint between the roof and the house wall

adjective

Shared, held, or made by two or more people together.

Usage examples:

A joint statement

verb

Provide or fasten (something) with joints.

Usage examples:

Other dolls, lily and jane, made in germany, had jointed arms and legs, eyelashes, eyes that opened…

noun

A point where two or more things are joined.

Usage examples:

The junction of the two rivers

noun

A place where things, esp. roads and railroads, meet or join

Usage examples:

The shopping center is near the junction of the new jersey turnpike and garden state parkway.

noun

A sheet, quantity, or thickness of material, typically one of several, covering a surface or body.

Usage examples:

Arrange a layer of aubergines in a dish

verb

Arrange in a layer or layers.

Usage examples:

In an ovenproof dish layer the potato and courgette slices

noun

A thin sheet of a substance on top of a surface, or a level of material that is different from the material on either side

Usage examples:

We put on two layers of paint., the road was built up with layers of crushed stone and asphalt., he…

noun

A long, narrow mark or band.

Usage examples:

A row of closely spaced dots will look like a continuous line

verb

Stand or be positioned at intervals along.

Usage examples:

A processional route lined by people waving flags

verb

Cover the inside surface of (a container or garment) with a layer of different material.

Usage examples:

A basket lined with polythene

noun

A vein of metal ore in the earth.

Usage examples:

The tin oxide was very thinly scattered within the lode

noun

A layer of metal in its natural form as ore in the ground

noun

A row of stitches sewn on to cloth.

Usage examples:

The gloves were white with black stitching

verb

Make, mend, or join (something) with stitches.

Usage examples:

Stitch a plain seam with right sides together

noun

A line of stitches or the kind of stitches sewn in cloth

Usage examples:

I sew it on so you can’t see the stitching.

noun

A layer or a series of layers of rock in the ground.

Usage examples:

A stratum of flint

noun

A single layer of something

Usage examples:

The upper strata of society, engineers could inject seawater into sandy strata beneath the city.

noun

A stitch or row of stitches holding together the edges of a wound or surgical incision.

Usage examples:

Sutures are removed on the 5th to 7th day after the operation

verb

Stitch up (a wound or incision) with a suture.

Usage examples:

The small incision was sutured

noun

A stitch used to sew up a cut in a person's body

noun

Any of the tubes forming part of the blood circulation system of the body, carrying in most cases oxygen-depleted blood towards the heart.

Usage examples:

This puts the full weight of your uterus on your back and on the major vein that carries blood betw…

noun

A tube that carries blood to the heart from the other parts of the body

Usage examples:

A vein of iron ore, she published many novels and stories in the romantic vein then popular.