film vs seam

film

verb
  • To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle. 

  • To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound. 

  • To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film. 

noun
  • A medium used to capture images in a camera. 

  • A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb. 

  • A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally. 

  • A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity. 

seam

verb
  • To mark with a seam or line; to scar. 

  • Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus. 

  • To put together with a seam. 

  • To crack open along a seam. 

  • Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam. 

  • 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. 

noun
  • The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam. 

  • A line of junction; a joint. 

  • A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral. 

  • An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels. 

  • A suture. 

  • A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix. 

  • A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric. 

  • A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials. 

  • An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds. 

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