noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
coming apart at the seams (= failing completely )
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She felt as if her life was coming apart at the seams .
falling apart at the seams
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The health service is falling apart at the seams .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
rich
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The private sector now offers another rich seam to mine.
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Life is often richer in these seams than anywhere else.
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This produced a rich seam of tips, much of it from the artists at the Theatre Royal during rehearsals.
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Logically, a far richer recruitment seam is available where case management is a day-to-day activity-in solicitors' private practice.
■ NOUN
allowance
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Press the seam allowance to one side.
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Turn under the raw edge of the top seam allowance and tack in place over the trimmed edge.
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Also cut one from interfacing, without a seam allowance .
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Turn in the raw edges of both seam allowances towards each other and match the folded edges.
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Press seam allowance to the wrong side on the lining and notch out in the same way.
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Trim seam allowances and clip around curve.
coal
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The sedimentary rocks, with their coal seams , have been folded and faulted.
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Table 3. 2 provides individual estimate for gaseous coal seams with the geometric mean used wherever a wide spread is given.
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The buried trees became coal seams and the mud and sands turned to shale and sandstone.
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Claystones and siltstones containing finely dispersed coaly matter are considered to be good sources - besides many coal seams .
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He proposes that the coal seams should be worked in the advance.
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Beneath them the coal seams are buried and preserved for our miners today.
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They plan to pump a suspension of catalysts in steam and air or hydrogen, down into a coal seam .
side
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It was badly ripped in the back, in the side seams .
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In this case you may want to centre the pattern around the centre of the machine even if this means mismatching side seams .
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With a vertical pattern like this there is a further point to consider, the side seams .
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Very slowly, its side seam split open and a flute rolled quietly out on to the floor.
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Complete herringbone stitching at the lower part of side seams , above the mitres.
■ VERB
burst
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Schools are often bursting at the seams .
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Our neighborhood looked like a refugee camp, bursting its seams .
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Bedford was already bursting at the seams with refugees of all kinds.
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As it is, the Shishu Bhawans seem to be bursting at their seams .
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The island couldn't be bursting at the seams , surely?
come
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She was an idiot, coming apart at the seams , and she hadn't written a word.
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It all finally came apart at the seams .
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The leisurewear industry would come apart at the seams , literally, without this indispensable fastening.
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In your case I suspect the water is coming through the seams on the bulkhead around the footwells.
fall
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It was symptomatic of a system going soft, falling apart at the seams .
press
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Stitch a plain seam on the wrong side of the fabric. Press the seam allowance to one side.
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Remove tacking and cut off the selvedge. Press seam open.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Neil's shirt was torn at the shoulder seam .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although sturdily built, the handsets were being returned because of cracking and splitting at the seams.
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In New York and elsewhere, a new race consciousness was beginning to tear at the seams of the civil rights consensus.