seem vs seam
Definitions
verb
- give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
- appear to one's own mind or opinion
- appear to exist
- seem to be true, probable, or apparent
Examples
Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers, but of folk singers, bearded or otherwise.
Leaving London they went to Paris, where they passed a few days, but soon grew weary of the place; and Lord Chetwynde, feeling a kind of languor, which seemed to him like a premonition of disease, he decided to go to Germany.
I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
Definitions
noun
- a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
- joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
verb
- put together with a seam
Examples
The good seaman is known in bad weather.
We kept Mnemosyne for over two months, and never once did she misconduct herself or behave in an unseamanlike manner.
Women also frequently work in family businesses as shopkeepers and seamstresses.
