seamとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /siːm/
• 異形同音異義語: seem, seme
• 韻: -iːm

語源 1

From Middle English seem, seme, from 古期英語 sēam (“seam”), from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz (“that which is sewn”).

別の表記

• seme (廃れた用法)

名詞

seam (複数形 seams)

1. (sewing) A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
   • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

     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 hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

2. A suture.
3. (geology) A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
4. (cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
5. (construction) A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.

   Seams can be made or sealed in a variety of ways, including adhesive bonding, hot-air welding, solvent welding, using adhesive tapes, sealant, etc.

6. A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
7. (figurative) A line of junction; a joint.
   • 1697, Joseph Addison, Essay on Virgil's Georgics

     Precepts should be so finely wrought together […] that no coarse seam may discover where they join.

派生語

語源 2

From the noun seam.

動詞

seam (三人称単数 現在形 seams, 現在分詞 seaming, 過去形および過去分詞形 seamed)

1. To put together with a seam.
2. To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
3. To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
   • 1725, Homer; [Alexander Pope], transl., “Book 4”, in The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume V, London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646:

     Seam'd o'er with wounds which his own sabre gave.

4. To crack open along a seam.
   • 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

     Later their lips began to parch and seam.

5. (cricket) Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
6. (cricket) Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.

引用

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Skeleton in Armor:

  Thus, seamed with many scars, / Bursting these prison bars, / Up to its native stars / My soul ascended!

語源 3

From 古期英語 sēam (“a burden”), from Latin sagma (“saddle”).

名詞

seam (複数形 seams)

1. (historical) An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
2. (historical) An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
   • 1952, L. F. Salzman, Building in England, p. 175.

     As white glass was 6s. the 'seam', containing 24 'weys' (pise, または pondera) of 5 lb., and 2½ lb. was reckoned sufficient to make one foot of glazing, the cost of glass would be 1½d. leaving 2½d. for labour.

語源 4

From Middle English seime (“grease”), from Old French saim (“fat”). Compare French saindoux (“lard”).

名詞

seam (複数形 seams)

1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) grease; tallow; lard

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参照

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Further reading

• seam on Wikipedia.
• seam (sewing) on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• AMEs, ASME, MSAE, Mesa, Same, eams, mase, meas, mesa, same

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz.

発音

• IPA^(key): /sæ͜ɑːm/

名詞

sēam m (nominative 複数形 sēamas)

1. seam

語形変化