1. Joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces
   "The tailor carefully pressed the seams of the dress"
    
2. A slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
   "You could see the seam where the two metal plates joined";
   - wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, line
    
3. A stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
   "he worked in the coal seams";
   - bed

1. Put together with a seam
   "seam a dress"

Sounds like: sealed, s, sea

Derived forms: seams, seaming, seamed

Type of: depression, impression, imprint, join, joint, stratum

Part of: cutis, skin, tegument

Encyclopedia: Seam