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seam
has definitions from the field of mining
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[ noun ] joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces
Used in print (Howard Fast, April Morning....)I think you could have heard him a mile away , and he was bursting at every seam with importance . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)It was enough for people to know that at_one_time he had looked down the street at the fleshy suppleness of a woman he had consumed - watching her become thinner and thinner in the distance , as thin as the seams on her stockings , and still thinner . |
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[ noun ] a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
Examples "his face has many lines" "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles" |
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