OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4168

seam

/siːm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cosedura • costura
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 han…
sutura
A suture.
veta
A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
He even roused himself to go to the mines once more: […]. He sat there, crippled, in a tub, with the under-ground manager showing him the seam with a powerful torch.
cicatriz
A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 4167

seem

/siːm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
parecer
To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
It seems a pity, but I can't see you this weekend.
She is seeming a bit down these days. Her eyes seem blue. It must have seemed to her she was safe. How'd she seem to you? He seems not to be at home. "It seems like rain". "It seem…