In order to fix this mistake we'll have to tear out this seam.
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Seam
//siːm//
Synonyms for "seam" (218 found)
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Strong matches (65)
Related words (109)
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Translations
113 translations across 47 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ῥαφή noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Arabic
1 entries- دَرْز noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Armenian
2 entries- կար noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- կար noun (suture)
Bashkir
2 entries- ек noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- йөй noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Belarusian
1 entries- шво noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Bulgarian
4 entries- белег noun (a line or depression left by a cut or wound)
- жила noun (thin stratum of mineral)
- сглобка noun (a joint formed by mating two separate sections of a material)
- шев noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 接縫 /接缝 noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- 縫 /缝 noun (suture)
- 縫合 /缝合 noun (suture)
Czech
1 entries- šev noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Danish
3 entries- sutur noun (suture)
- søm noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- søm noun (suture)
Dutch
1 entries- naad noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Finnish
4 entries- juonne noun (thin stratum of mineral)
- ommel noun (suture)
- sauma noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- suoni noun (thin stratum of mineral)
French
4 entries- cicatrice noun (a line or depression left by a cut or wound)
- couture noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- jointure noun (a joint formed by mating two separate sections of a material)
- suture noun (suture)
Friulian
1 entries- cusidure noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
German
4 entries- Flöz noun (thin stratum of mineral)
- Naht noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- Naht noun (suture)
- Narbe noun (a line or depression left by a cut or wound)
Hebrew
1 entries- תפר noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Hungarian
3 entries- varrat noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- varrat noun (suture)
- varrás noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Ingrian
1 entries- ompelos noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Irish
3 entries- siúnta noun (a joint formed by mating two separate sections of a material)
- síog noun (thin stratum of mineral)
- éasc noun (a line or depression left by a cut or wound)
Italian
4 entries- cicatrice noun (a line or depression left by a cut or wound)
- costura noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- cucitura noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- filone noun (thin stratum of mineral)
Japanese
2 entries- 縫い目 noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- 縫合 noun (suture)
Latin
2 entries- cicatrix noun (a line or depression left by a cut or wound)
- sūtūra noun (suture)
Lithuanian
1 entries- siūlė̃ noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Sam noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Macedonian
1 entries- шев noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Manx
2 entries- whaaley noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- whaaley noun (suture)
Māori
4 entries- hiki noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- hiki noun (a joint formed by mating two separate sections of a material)
- maurua noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- morua noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- sammenføyning noun (a joint formed by mating two separate sections of a material)
- søm noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- saum noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Old English
1 entries- sēam noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- دیكیش noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Persian
1 entries- درز noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Soom noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Polish
3 entries- pokład noun (thin stratum of mineral)
- szew noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- szew noun (suture)
Portuguese
4 entries- cicatriz noun (a line or depression left by a cut or wound)
- costura noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- filão noun (thin stratum of mineral)
- junta noun (a joint formed by mating two separate sections of a material)
Romanian
1 entries- cusătură noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Russian
4 entries- рубец noun (a line or depression left by a cut or wound)
- флец noun (thin stratum of mineral)
- шов noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- шов noun (suture)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- šȁv noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- ша̏в noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Sicilian
4 entries- cicatrici noun (a line or depression left by a cut or wound)
- cusitura noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- cusitura noun (suture)
- custura noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Slovak
1 entries- šev noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Slovene
1 entries- šiv noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Spanish
4 entries- cicatriz noun (a line or depression left by a cut or wound)
- cosedura noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- costura noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- sutura noun (suture)
Swedish
1 entries- söm noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Thai
1 entries- ตะเข็บ noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Ukrainian
3 entries- пласт noun (thin stratum of mineral)
- про́шарок noun (thin stratum of mineral)
- шов noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Venetan
1 entries- cuxidura noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
Walloon
3 entries- costeure noun (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
- costeure noun (suture)
- rakeudaedje noun (suture)
Welsh
3 entries- gwythïen noun (thin stratum of mineral)
- haen(en) noun (thin stratum of mineral)
- llygad noun (thin stratum of mineral)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
The mid-ocean range stretches around the globe like the seam of a baseball.
Source: tatoeba (6675707)
Now fail the ships wherein Achates ride / and Abas; old Aletes' bark gives way, / and brave Ilioneus'. Each loosened side / through many a gaping seam lets in the baleful tide.
Source: tatoeba (6780349)
The blanket's seam has unraveled.
Source: tatoeba (7684577)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.