1 a line along which two edges of fabric, etc. are joined or sewn together:
a shoulder seam
2 a thin layer of coal or other material, between layers of rock under the ground:
They struck a rich seam of iron ore. * (figurative) The book is a rich seam of information.
3 a line where two edges meet, for example the edges of wooden boards:
Light was spilling in through the seams of the door.
IDIOMS
be bursting / bulging at the seams (informal) to be very full, especially of people
be falling / coming apart at the seams (informal) to be going very badly wrong and likely to stop functioning completely:
She was falling apart at the seams, spending most of her time in tears. * His little world fell apart at the seams.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for seam is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is seam a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, seam is tagged as noun.
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