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Seam vs Mesh - What's the difference?

seam | mesh |

As nouns the difference between seam and mesh

is that seam is shawm while mesh is a structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.

As a verb mesh is

to fit in, to come together.

seam

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (sewing) A folded back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
  • *
    • 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.
  • A suture.
  • A thin stratum, especially of coal or mineral.
  • (cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
  • An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
  • An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
  • * 1952 , , Building in England , p. 175.
    • As white glass was 6s. the 'seam', containing 24 'weys' (pise, or 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.
  • (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.
  • A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
  • (figurative) A line of junction; a joint.
  • * (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
    • Precepts should be so finely wrought togetherthat no coarse seam may discover where they join.
    Derived terms
    * seamster * seamstress

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put together with a 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.
  • To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Seamed o'er with wounds which his own sabre gave.
  • To crack open along a seam.
  • * L. Wallace
    • Later their lips began to parch and seam .
  • (cricket) Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
  • (cricket) Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
    • Quotations
    * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Skeleton in Armor : *: Thus, seamed with many scars, / Bursting these prison bars, / Up to its native stars / My soul ascended!

    Etymology 2

    See saim.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) grease; tallow; lard
    • (Shakespeare)
    (Dryden)

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    mesh

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia mesh) (es)
  • A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men
  • The opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space.
  • The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.
  • A measure of fineness (particle size) of ground material. A powder that passes through a sieve having 300 openings per linear inch but does not pass 400 openings per linear inch is said to be -300 +400 mesh.
  • (computer graphics) A polygon mesh.

    • Synonyms

    * (space and threads) lattice, network, net

    Derived terms

    * mesh number

    Verb

    (es)
  • To fit in, to come together.
    • The music meshed well with the visuals in that film.
  • To catch in a mesh.
    • (Surrey)

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